The Associated Press

Nicaragua’s increasingly isolated and repressive government thought it had scored a rare public relations victory last week when Miss Nicaragua Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe competition.

Venezuela has long claimed Guyana’s Essequibo region — a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals. And now President Nicolás Maduro is appealing to Venezuelans' patriotism in summoning voters supposedly to decide the territory’s future in a Dec. 3 referendum.

A former executive director of a Florida museum which was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings is filing counterclaims against the museum.

Colombia has begun the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s.

Dozens of tiny grocery stores have sprung up around Cuba in recent months. The locals call them “mipymes.” Their customers are Cuban families who receive remittances from abroad, tourism workers, diplomats, employees of other small and medium-sized businesses, artists or high-performance athletes.

Spirits and beer giant Diageo saw billions wiped off its market value after it warned that a sharp slowdown in its business in Latin America and the Caribbean was hitting sales and potential profits.

Donald Trump's next campaign rally in a South Florida suburb is aimed at trying to upstage his Republican presidential rivals while they debate in nearby Miami.

Chilean President Gabriel Boric has formally received the draft of a new constitution and is calling for a national referendum next month so citizens can decide whether the new charter will replace the country’s dictatorship-era constitution.

Some housing developers are building homes with an eye toward making them more resilient to such extreme weather, and friendlier to the environment at the same time.

Florida is the third largest state in the nation, yet it has never fielded a winning presidential candidate. Nationally known politicians like former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sens. Bob Graham and Marco Rubio have tried and failed.

President Joe Biden is trying to increase trade with Latin America. The Democrat is meeting with the heads of the Dominican Republic and Chile as part of a broader effort to disrupt China’s dominance in global manufacturing.

A federal judge in Miami has sentenced a retired Colombian army officer to life in prison for his role in plotting to kill Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.