Latin America

COMMENTARY Vigilantism is an understandable response to relentless violent crime, but Latin America shows it worsens the plague — as it likely will in Haiti if the world doesn't step up.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó says he has crossed the border into Colombia on foot to seek a meeting with international delegations gathering there for a conference focused on his country’s political crisis.

International arrivals data indicate the Caribbean's tourism industry is bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic better than any other region's.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday condemned U.S. sanctions against Cuba, as he visited the island and met with top leaders during the last leg of a Latin American tour that took him to Brazil, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

A coding error in an annual survey by the U.S. Census Bureau has offered unprecedented insight into how large numbers of Brazilians in the U.S. identify as Hispanic.

Cuba’s National Assembly has ratified President Miguel Díaz-Canel for a new five-year term, in a decision to maintain continuity as the island faces a deep economic crisis.

A judge has handed down a 15-year prison sentence to Claudia Diaz, the former nurse of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, for taking bribes from a billionaire media mogul to green-light lucrative currency transactions when she served as Venezuela's national treasurer.

Russia and Venezuela have reviewed some of their hundreds of bilateral agreements covering the financial, energy, agricultural and several other sectors during discussions between their top diplomats.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived at the Brazilian capital as Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pushes a diplomatic approach for peace in Ukraine that has irked both Kyiv and the West.

A Cuban official says Cuba plans to resume accepting deportation flights from the United States this month, echoing U.S. concerns about the highest levels of Cuban migration in six decades.