Gustavo Petro's election as Colombia's first leftist president is likely to test the U.S.' special relationship with a major non-NATO ally like never before.
Matthew Heath, who the State Department says has been jailed under “specious” charges, is currently stable after being treated for wounds on his left arm.
Mexico's Navy Department said a marine stationed at a base on the Baja California peninsula opened fire Sunday, killing two fellow marines and a female civilian.
British journalist Dom Phillips' quest to unlock the secrets of how to preserve Brazil's Amazon was cut short this month when he was killed along with a colleague in the heart of the forest.
Before disappearing in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, Bruno Pereira was laying the groundwork for a mammoth undertaking: a 217-mile trail marking the southwestern border of the Javari Valley Indigenous territory, an area the size of Portugal.
Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez's reputation for independence amid criticism and threats in Guatemala has drawn praise from the US, which sees anticorruption efforts in Central America as crucial to reducing migration. But nothing, he said, prepared him for the attacks he has faced in recent weeks.
The fates of Russia’s military contracts with Peru, Bolivia and Brazil have grown precarious, with the United States sanctioning Russia’s defense industry and Moscow shoring up its assets as the war drags on.
Israel praised Argentina on Thursday for holding a Venezuelan plane that included Iranian crew, saying the flight shows Tehran is trying to expand its influence in South America.
A fisherman confessed to killing a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in Brazil's remote Amazon region and took police to a site where human remains were recovered, a federal investigator said after a grim 10-day search for the missing pair.
A territorial dispute between Denmark and Canada over a barren and uninhabited rock in the Arctic that has led to decades of friendly friction has come to an end, with the two countries agreeing on Tuesday to divide the tiny island between them.
The family of a missing journalist says they have been told by Brazilian authorities that two bodies have been found tied to a tree in the Amazon rainforest.
As Haiti grapples with an unprecedented wave of kidnappings and killings by armed gangs, a top State Department diplomat for Latin America and the Caribbean said Friday the U.S. is actively engaged in discussions about Haiti’s mounting security challenges.
President Joe Biden's attempt to shift focus to the Western Hemisphere has gotten off to a bumpy start, with the leader of Mexico snubbing his invitation to a Los Angeles summit this week and doubts swirling about the strength of U.S. influence in the region.
At least 188 people have been killed and almost 17,000 people have been displaced from Port-au-Prince since April 24 by gangs. And some 200 kidnapping cases in Port-au-Prince have been recorded in May alone.
Sexual misconduct allegations in the Canadian military should be exclusively investigated and prosecuted by civilian authorities, a blistering report concluded Monday.
