Ahead of the June 2 presidential election, protesters rallied against what they claim are attempts by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to divide the country.
Young women footballers in Complexo do Alemao, one of Rio’s most impoverished and violent favelas, often can’t leave home to train when police and drug dealers shoot at each other.
Unprecedented logistics centre in Latin America financed by Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative is locked in a legal battle over its operation.
Sage notched the 11th triumph for poodles of various sizes at Westminster; only wire fox terriers have won more.
A rights group in Mexico, launched by sex workers, is seeking the decriminalisation of sex work, its formal recognition as a job, access to social security for those working online and in person.
Deadly firebomb attack on the home of two lesbian couples shocks many in a nation that considers itself to be a pioneer of gay rights in Latin America.
Nicanor Boluarte is accused of working to appoint government officials in exchange for money and an agreement to gather signatures to register a political party.
Ramon Fonseca, a partner in the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal over the hiding of wealth in offshore entities, has died. He was 71.
Nicaragua’s congress, controlled by President Daniel Ortega, repealed a law which had given a Chinese investor a concession of up to 100 years to build and operate a canal between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
From top to bottom, rescuers scoured buildings in Porto Alegre for inhabitants stuck in flats or on rooftops as unprecedented flooding submerged neighbourhoods.
Jose Raul Mulino ran as the substitute for fugitive former leader Ricardo Martinelli, who was banned from participating and sought asylum in the Nicaraguan embassy after a court upheld a conviction for money laundering.
More than a million people have no access to drinking water and fast-rising water levels are straining dams, while rescuers face a huge task with entire towns inaccessible.
Grisly discovery appeared to confirm worst fears of the families of Australian brothers Callum and Jake Robinson and American Jack Carter. Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the case.
The two sides were engaged in a diplomatic feud after Spain’s Transport Minister Oscar Puente suggested Milei was on drugs.
Lula pushed the visiting leader to buy Brazilian beef, saying ‘our meat is cheaper and of better quality than the meat you buy’.
Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their friend Jack Carter went missing last week during a surfing trip in Baja California state.
President Gustavo Petro described Israel’s siege of Gaza as ‘genocide’. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused Petro of being ‘antisemitic and full of hate’.
Judges at the International Court of Justice on Tuesday ruled against issuing emergency orders to stop German arms exports to Israel, adding that they remained deeply concerned about conditions in Gaza.
With new tariffs being imposed by Mexico on most Chinese imports, observers and analysts disagree on whether stricter measures are being considered – but most say pressure from the US is at play.
A local official said the incident happened on a dirt road in the Andean region of Cajamarca and the bus carrying more than 50 passengers ‘fell into an abyss’.
Dispute erupts over Peru port authority ‘error’ that gave Cosco Shipping exclusivity over operations.