Americas

Democracy and trade were suddenly the hemisphere's buzzwords, and Miami was positioned to be the nexus. But it had to imagine itself in a dramatically new way.

COMMENTARY: Disney movies helped turn Latin Americans away from Hitler. Darker versions of those flicks could turn them, and Americans, against Putin.

COMMENTARY: Miami isn't the serious forum for hemispheric affairs it could be because its Latin America discussion isn't really about Latin America.

COMMENTARY The idea of charging Jair Bolsonaro with pandemic homicide speaks to all the demagogues who've helped make the Americas COVID's killing field.

COMMENTARY Beringia's crossing, not Columbus' voyage, evokes humanity’s arrival in the New World — and more important, what being the New World means.

COMMENTARY Americans take it for granted they can keep negligence disasters from becoming as frequent as Latin America's. Maybe too much for granted now.

COMMENTARY If a royal racism scandal in the Old World reminds us of anything, it's that even figurehead monarchy should be anathema to the New World.

The buñuelo, in fact, is one of the most popular Christmas foods not just for Colombians but a number of Latin American cultures. And yet outside the Latino community – even in South Florida – it’s generally unknown.

Venezuelan exile journalist Francisco Poleo explains why his country's political opposition — and most of the world — refuse to legitimize this Sunday's vote.

The strongest storms ever to form so late, and so far south, in the Caribbean could force us to revise our expectations about hurricanes in this part of the world.

Sudhir Hazareesingh's "Black Spartacus" illuminates the remarkable Haitian liberator Toussaint Louverture — and the universal importance of the revolution he led.

Joe Biden's decisive defeat in Florida reflected a big underperformance with Latino voters — whom critics say Democrats still take for granted and misread.