Latin America

After a Nicaraguan human rights activist who had fled to Costa Rica was killed, concern has grown that the Ortega government may be targeting its enemies abroad.

During World War II, the United States arrested hundreds of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants from Latin America and deported them to the U.S. where they lived in camps.

Low turnout and fears over democratic backsliding marked Mexico’s shift to electing judges, which opens the way for the Morena party to dominate courts.

A power blackout hit all of Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the heavily Catholic U.S. territory prepared to celebrate the Easter weekend.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and several top Trump administration officials dismissed questions about the fate of a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador.

Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes from his personal life into books that reverberated far beyond the borders of his native country.

The death toll rose to at least 184 after a nightclub roof collapsed early Tuesday in the Dominican capital during a concert attended by politicians, athletes, and others.

Except for Guyana — which got hit with a 38% duty — Latin America and the Caribbean were relatively unscathed by President Trump's global tariff hikes. Still, experts see significant effects there and here, especially in South Florida tourism.

Weaning Caribbean countries from their dependence on Venezuelan oil and combating illegal immigration will top Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s tour of the Caribbean this week.

Weekend flights by U.S. immigration authorities set off a frantic scramble among terrified families after hundreds of immigrants disappeared from the government's online locator for detainees.

President Trump says U.S. foreign aid "doesn't align" with his America First agenda. But in Latin America, data suggest it delivers for his big priority: reducing illegal immigration. It's also a pro-democracy force in the region — and diplomats fear its retreat there further benefits China.

COMMENTARY President Trump's USAID freeze is a doubly self-defeating mistake: it emboldens Latin American dictators he claims to scare and raises the despair of migrants he wants to keep out.