Latin America and the Caribbean

COMMENTARY This week offers more signs – including a South Florida poll – that President Trump's won his campaign to bend Latin America to his purposes.

As the Inter-American Development Bank prepares to help Latin America rebuild post-COVID, will an American take over, breaking one of its core traditions?

National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien touted a Latin American democracy and development plan to spur expats and confront China's growing influence

COMMENTARY As the first person of Caribbean descent on a major U.S. presidential ticket, Kamala Harris challenges a key Trump tactic.

Latin America is the new global epicenter for COVID-19. But it may also be the new epicenter for pandemic-related economic collapse.Nothing makes people…

Health experts call Latin America and the Caribbean the world’s new hotspot for COVID-19 infection. And the pandemic isn’t sparing the region’s…

As the COVID-19 pandemic hits the developing world harder, Latin America has become its new epicenter – and a new pandemic forecast for the region is…

COMMENTARYTuesday night the Trump Administration made the surprising if not stunning announcement that, for the first time ever, the U.S. is nominating an…

COMMENTARYWe’re now familiar with websites from Johns Hopkins and Worldometer that grimly tally each country’s coronavirus cases and deaths. But unless…

A month ago Haiti’s number of COVID-19 infections barely registered on the global radar screen. But a leading medical group warns that has now changed…

COMMENTARYIt’s a mystery why the Trump Administration chose Miami this week as one of only two major U.S. cities to be sent “riot teams” as protests…

Last week President Trump announced he would pull the U.S. out of the World Health Organization (WHO). On Tuesday the head of the WHO's Americas division…