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    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Mexico
      Mexico’s cartels luring hundreds of recruits every week, research finds

      Report highlights size and ‘enormous power’ of crime groups that hold sway over areas of the country and economy

      Sinaloa Cartel member holds a handgun with others in background in a safe house in Culiacan, Mexico
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      News in-depthEcuador
      Ecuador extraction bans to cost it billions in lost export revenue

      Next president faces tough choices after votes to halt oil drilling and preserve region rich in gold, silver and copper

      Gas flares from a refinery are seen in the Waorani Community of Bameno, Ecuador
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Drug trafficking
      Colombia’s coca production at all-time high, UN says

      Rise in the main cocaine ingredient comes as the country’s government re-examines its approach to drugs

      Police in a coca field in Colombia.
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      News in-depthChile
      Deep divide over Pinochet coup pushes Chile’s polarisation to extremes

      Leftist president’s unity drive over 50th anniversary of putsch backfires, aggravating country’s political paralysis

      Gabriel Boric, left, Allende and Pinochet
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Mexico
      Mexico gears up for female-led presidential race

      Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez will aim to show they can capitalise on companies diversifying from China

      Claudia Sheinbaum raises her left fist in the air as she speaks from a podium
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Reproductive rights
      Mexico’s Supreme Court enshrines abortion rights

      Decision is the latest victory for reproductive rights activists in Latin America as US states face growing restrictions

      A banner reading ‘Abortion Out of the Penal Code’ hangs outside of a building in Mexico City  on International Women’s Day
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      InterviewInternational Monetary Fund
      Organised crime groups are hurting Latin America’s economy, says IMF

      Fund’s regional chief warns growing presence of gangs is deterring investment

      Rodrigo Valdés
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      Argentine politics
      Milei’s running mate riles Argentina activists with event justifying 1970s dictatorship

      Victoria Villarruel honours ‘victims of leftwing terrorism’ in run-up to October election

      Demonstrators protest outside an event held by Victoria Villarruel, running mate of presidential candidate Javier Milei, in Buenos Aires on Monday
    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      News in-depthJavier Milei
      ‘Milei knows how to fix Argentina’: far-right outsider woos frustrated voters

      Ahead of October’s election, the self-styled ‘anarcho-capitalist’ is winning over a large chunk of the population

      Javier Milei supporters
    • Saturday, 2 September, 2023
      Americas politics & policy
      Guatemala president-elect says ‘coup’ under way to stop him taking office

      Bernardo Arévalo warns of ‘political mafias’ and calls for people in the Central American country to unite in resistance

      Guatemala president-elect Bernardo Arevalo, right, and vice-president-elect Karin Herrera
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Ecuador
      Ecuador endures car bombs in latest wave of violence ahead of run-off vote

      Violence has become one of the defining issues on the presidential campaign trail in Latin American country

      Police investigate the remains of a car bomb that exploded in Quito, Ecuador
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      News in-depth
      Parents burn ‘decolonial’ school textbooks in Mexico culture war

      López Obrador defends anti-capitalist and gender-neutral stance in children’s new learning materials

    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Mexico
      Head of Mexico’s agency for finding missing people resigns

      Move comes as government of López Obrador conducts a census of individuals who have disappeared

      Family members of 43 missing student teachers march in Mexico
    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      Ecuador
      Ecuadoreans head to polls in election marked by violence

      Run-up to snap vote has been marred by candidate’s assassination and wider drug cartel crisis

    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      News in-depthEcuador
      Political violence in Ecuador damages socialists’ chances of regaining power

      Voters look for tough pledges on security as blame game continues over assassination of centre-right candidate

      Christian Zurita, second from left, who replaces slain presidential candidate Fernando Villavencencio, gives a press conference in Guayaquil, Ecuador
    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      News in-depthBrazilian society
      Neo-Nazi groups spread in Brazil’s south

      Far-right extremism rises in historic German areas with raised-arm salute defended as ‘culturally common’ gesture

      Montage of Nazi flag, Brazil map and a gathering of people
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Bryan Harris
      The flight from Salvador, a city withered by disease and disorder

      The historic migration from Brazil’s interior cities to the coast is now in sharp reverse

      The buildings of a coastal city reach the shoreline and the choppy sea
    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
      Argentina
      Argentina’s far-right libertarian wants tougher austerity to rebuild economy

      Javier Milei has pulled country’s political discourse to the right ahead of October elections

      Javier Milei
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      Guatemala
      Guatemala heads for centre-left run-off as anger grows over corruption

      Almost a quarter of voters spoil ballots or leave them blank after four candidates were barred from running

      UNE presidential candidate Sandra Torres in Guatemala City on Monday
    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      News in-depthGuatemala
      ‘Everyone is terrified’: Guatemalan journalist faces decades in prison

      Crackdown on press in Central America’s largest economy has led many to flee

      José Rubén Zamora, centre
    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      Mexican politics
      Mexico’s ruling party wins critical regional election

      López Obrador’s Morena unseats PRI in one of last opposition-held states, building momentum ahead of 2024 national poll

      Delfina Gómez, centre, the candidate for a coalition led by the ruling Morena party, celebrates her election to governor of the State of Mexico on Sunday
    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      Michael Pooler
      São Paulo’s levels of urban misery feel higher than ever

      One symptom of the city’s malaise is the takeover of streets and squares by addicts and drug dealers

      Drug addicts participating in the project are seen in ‘Crackland’, an area in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, in February
    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      News in-depthUS immigration
      US and Mexico braced for border ‘chaos’ with end of Title 42 migration rule

      Expiration of pandemic-era immigration restrictions threatens to exacerbate a crisis that could last weeks

      Immigrants stand in line as they are processed by US Border Patrol agents
    • Monday, 24 April, 2023
      News in-depthColombia
      ‘You shut up shop or you die’: Colombia stumbles on path to ‘total peace’

      Former guerrilla-turned-president Gustavo Petro struggles to deliver comprehensive settlement with armed groups

      Miners from the municipalities of Bajo Cauca protest against the government of President Gustavo Petro in Taraza, Colombia, Wednesday, March 15, 2023.
    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Mexico
      Mexico’s president seeks help from China’s Xi on deadly fentanyl imports

      Plea from Andrés Manuel López Obrador follows pressure from US lawmakers over trafficking of drug across border

      Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks to media
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