Guatemalans go the polls Sunday in the second-round presidential runoff, pitting ex-first lady Sandra Torres against conservative Alejandro Giammattei in a nation beset by poverty, unemployment and emigration.

Vigilante attacks and mob justice appeared to be on the rise in Mexico this week as violence mounted, two dozen bodies appeared along roadsides and the government ruled out any new crackdown on criminal gangs.

Venezuela's government late Wednesday halted negotiations with the opposition in protest of the Trump administration's freezing of its U.S. assets, thrusting into crisis the country's best chance of peacefully resolving a political standoff that has kept the nation on the edge for more than six months.

The United States is working with Colombia, Brazil and other regional partners on how to assist Venezuela if the embargo-like sanctions announced by the White House this week ultimately force President Nicolas Maduro to step down, the head of U.S. Southern Command said.

U.S. federal prosecutors have accused the Honduran government of essentially functioning as a narco-state, with the current and former presidents having received campaign contributions from cocaine traffickers in exchange for protection.

Puerto Ricans are filing into the streets for a massive planned protest, paralyzing a major San Juan highway in an island-wide demonstration to demand that their governor must go.

With no resolution in sight for Venezuela’s leadership six months after the leader of the national assembly declared himself president, the Trump administration appears willing to offer guarantees to Nicolas Maduro that the U.S. will leave him alone if he leaves Venezuela.

Joint Task Force-Bravo’s medical unit, based at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, recently conducted a medical field investigation into the outbreak of leishmaniasis — a parasitic disease that has long plagued U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The U.S. State Department is setting up a 13-person Venezuela unit that will be based in Colombia for now and deploy to Caracas once security allows, as the Trump administration continues to exert pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to step down.

Two former Puerto Rico officials, along with the head of an accounting firm and three others, were indicted over allegations of theft, money laundering and wire fraud, escalating federal investigations that have been swirling around the bankrupt U.S. territory.

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Brutal new images of an indigenous massacre in southern Venezuela emerged Friday, almost five months after the government deployed troops to keep international aid from entering the country.

Crew members aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Charles Sexton searched throughout the night, according to Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Murray. A Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane rejoined the search at daylight Friday.

Thousands of asylum seekers in Mexico are being forced to wait indefinitely in a strange and hostile country without stable housing or a source of income while their asylum claims move through an immigration court system bogged down by a heavy caseload.

With a new round of ICE raids set to begin Sunday, hundreds protested in Southern California and immigrants targeted by the Trump crackdown braced for the federal action.

President Donald Trump said his administration will move forward "fairly soon" with a plan to arrest thousands of migrant families in surprise roundups across major U.S. cities, with the two-week deadline he imposed on Democrats coming up on Saturday.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said his country bears responsibility for the recent drowning deaths of a father and his toddler daughter who had been attempting to cross into the United States, saying that security and economic hardships he inherited are driving people to make the perilous journey.

Summer hailstorms are routine in parts of Mexico, especially Mexico City, the country’s capital. But what happened Sunday in Guadalajara, the country’s second-largest metropolis and capital of the state of Jalisco was beyond the pale.

Thousands more National Guard troops are scheduled to arrive in Tijuana on Friday to take unprecedented steps in securing Mexico's northern border and preventing migrants from crossing into the United States.

Thousands of assault-style weapons and explosives shipped through the mail from South Florida to South America were seized this week in a law enforcement crackdown on arms traffickers who rake in millions on the black market while supplying criminal gangs, federal authorities said Friday.

Little is known about Mexico's new, militarized police force, which was recently deployed to Mexico's northern border to try to stem Central American migration to the United States.

The Trump administration on Friday announced sanctions on the son of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a move to increase pressure on family members of top officials backing the socialist leader and suspected of corruption.

A 15-year-old tourist from Argentina is in a coma at a Dominican Republic hospital after suffering organ failure last week, fueling anxiety over the Caribbean country's recent rash of seemingly mysterious deaths.

Venezuela's migrant and refugee crisis could become the world's largest by 2020, matching or surpassing Syria, if the political and humanitarian situation in the country doesn't improve in coming months.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he’d be willing to have his first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in September after the U.S. leader said he was interested in such an encounter.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is scheduled to visit Venezuela next week on a trip that will shine a light on continued abuses in the country even as it underscores the deep political polarization.

Long lines of migrants, mostly Central Americans, line up daily outside the Tapachula offices of the refugee agencies of Mexico and the United Nations.

Fulfilling a key, controversial campaign promise popular with his party's base, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Friday that will ban so-called "sanctuary cities" in Florida, though the policy is expected to draw a legal skirmish over its constitutionality as it goes into effect next month.

Starting June 7, Jamaica will join 23 other countries competing in the monthlong tournament in nine French cities. The lowest-ranked team in the field, the Reggae Girlz might not earn a point in group-stage matches against Brazil, Italy and Australia. But that is beside the point.