The Latest Breaking News from Latin America

June 28-July 4, 2024

Argentinian President Javier Milei described last week's coup attempt in in the Andean country as a hoax. The Bolivian government is outraged.

June 21-27, 2024

Honduras still has a long way to go to dismantle the "narco-state" that grew under ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, jailed this week for smuggling a deluge of cocaine into the United States, experts told AFP. Hernandez, 55, spent years in positions of power cozying up to kingpins from some of…

The appreciation of the Mexican peso has influenced to increase the cost of living.

June 14-20, 2024

From Algeria, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan, citizens of distant, Muslim countries wait for US asylum at a shelter in the Mexican border city of Tijuana -- more used to seeing migrants from Latin America than the Middle East.

China has organised seminars and training courses for officials in African and Latin American countries, aimed at promoting its single-party system and President Xi Jinping's worldview, a report said this week.

He was the poetic voice of the Cuban Revolution, an inspiration for millions of Latin Americans living under dictatorships throughout the 1960s and 1970s who dreamt of the ideal Cuba that he — and his guitar — helped evoke

June 7-13, 2024

The mega-prison built in 2022, the largest in Latin America, symbolizes President Nayib Bukele's crackdown on street gangs. The post New Photos Reveal Glimpse Into Mega-Prison Where 40k Inmates Can Be Held Indefinitely first appeared on Bored Panda.