The Latest Breaking News from Latin America

Organized crime groups have about 175,000 members and authors say the best way to reduce violence is to cut membership

A clergy sex abuse scandal involving Chile’s most notorious pedophile, the priest Fernando Karadima, shook the South American country in 2010 in a way never seen in Latin America

A clergy sex abuse scandal involving Chile’s most notorious pedophile, the priest Fernando Karadima, shook the South American country in 2010 in a way never seen in Latin America

A new report finds that Indigenous peoples made up more than a third of those deaths

Sept. 8-14, 2023

Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, 51, is first rioter to be tried for January assault on Latin America’s largest democracy

Judge condemns ‘dastardly putschist attack’ on Latin America’s largest democracy as first four Bolsonaro supporters go on trial

Colombian photographer Federico Rios Escobar won the ICRC Humanitarian Visa d’or Award for his photo report on migrants trying to cross the Darién gap between Colombia and Panama in Latin America.

Reuters Institute Digital News Report finds shift in online news consumption in India; search engines, mobile news aggregators favoured. In Scandinavia, traditional news brands remain popular, while in Asia, Latin America, Africa, social media is main gateway to news. In Asia-Pacific, local portals like Naver, Yahoo! dominate. In India, trust…

As the invasive ant arrives in Europe, Jonathan Watts recounts his painful encounters with this small creature in its native Latin America

The press in G20’s several Global South participants – including China, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa and Indonesia – largely gave a miss to G20 coverage on the front pages of their Sunday editions.