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Matias Delacroix/AP/APThousands have returned since immigration policies tightened under President Trump. Unable to afford safer routes, migrants are taking dangerous boat journeys from Panama to Colombia. The United Nations has urged authorities to protect these migrants from criminal networks. -
Associated PressAuthorities in the Dominican Republic say they have confiscated some of the cocaine transported by a speedboat that was destroyed recently by the U.S. Navy, as the Trump administration carries out a controversial anti narcotics mission in the southern Caribbean.
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A congressional hearing hosted by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission is warning that a surge in violence against Colombian human rights defenders and social leaders threatens to unravel years of progress toward peace. -
A Venezuelan migrant took the first step Thursday toward suing the United States for what he says was his wrongful detention and removal to a notorious prison in El Salvador. -
Uruguay’s iconic palm trees are under attack by the invasive red palm weevil, a pest from Southeast Asia. -
Fear has long simmered among critics of President Nayib Bukele’s concentration of power in El Salvador. Now, a new wave of government repression has driven more than 100 human rights advocates, journalists, lawyers, academics and environmentalists to flee the country. -
COMMENTARY The real reason President Trump is threatening tariffs in order to quash ex-Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's coup-plot trial? The case is too big a reminder of his own alleged sedition. -
Venezuelan migrants imprisoned for months in El Salvador under a U.S. immigration crackdown have reunited with their families. The men spent months in a prison some of them described as "hell" because of the severe abuses they allege happened there. -
Venezuela's attorney general has launched an investigation into El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele for alleged mistreatment of Venezuelan migrants. The migrants were detained in a maximum-security prison after being deported from the United States. -
A bipartisan group South Florida lawmakers want the street in front of the Cuban government’s embassy in Washington renamed after a prominent Cuban dissident killed 13 years ago this month in a mysterious car crash in Cuba. -
A person familiar with the arrest said on Monday that the arrest occurred at Pierre Réginald Boulos' home in South Florida late last week. Boulos was born in the United States but renounced his citizenship to run for president of Haiti in recent years. -
Venezuela’s autocratic president, Nicolás Maduro, has crushed the opposition, jailed judges and politicians, and even arrested U.S. citizens to use as leverage in international negotiations.
