Co-founder of independent website Tapajós de Fato said decision was made to protect journalists and their families

Co-founder of independent website Tapajós de Fato said decision was made to protect journalists and their families

Attorney says fishers ‘losing their livelihoods’, but Marco Rubio maintains US still willing to ‘blow up ships if need be’

Legislators sent letter to Marco Rubio saying US interference is weakening Brazil’s democratic institutions

Dozens of US attacks on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean have killed more than 230 people since September 2025

Critics say moves from leftwing incumbent president are electorally motivated two weeks before Brazil’s elections

‘The doors that aren’t open to us in the rest of the city, we open for ourselves here,’ Maria Cristina de Sales says

Believed to be first deportations to fourth country, the six face ‘horrific conditions’ in Equatorial Guinea, say lawyers

President cites Trump’s suggestion that he might reconsider US stance on British sovereignty and threatens swifter sanctions on UK oil interests

‘Total peace’ plan of previous government led only 99 of Colombia’s 30,000 armed combatants to disarm, but new president Abelardo De la Espriella opposes peace agreements

Fernando Cerimedo, 42, arrested on suspicion of ordering shooting of Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller

Beto Coral held up banners in Florida warning fellow Colombians to not vote for Abelardo de la Espriella

Social media video shows 60-year-old woman being led away in handcuffs, but she was released minutes later

Luis Carlos Rúa revealed himself to be Elefante blanco just three days before election for ‘his own safety’. Now he is tackling graft from senate floor

President also blames Brazil and Mexico and says online critics ‘do not want the ideas of freedom to succeed’

At least 16 fishers from San Andrés and Providence said to have gone missing since January after US began attacking boats in Caribbean and eastern Pacific

Tour comes amid Argentinian president’s declining popularity and far-right victories across Latin America

US secretary of state says international community should ‘join forces’ against authoritarian Ortega regime

Daniel Ortega, the 80-year-old authoritarian leader, says move will ‘build a wall’ against the opposition

A history of racism and ongoing footballing rivalries have made the choice of which team to get behind in Sunday’s final a charged topic

President Lula’s office says move is result of pressure by family of far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro

Nobel laureate María Corina Machado will not lead negotiations over new elections, contrary to expectations

Leftist Iván Cepeda conceded to far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella who won by razor-thin margin

Trump-admiring Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to ‘disembowel’ the left and kill criminals like ‘rats and cockroaches’

Leftwing opponent alleges vote count irregularities after Trump-endorsed lawyer secures narrow majority

Frontrunner Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to return to full-scale military confrontation with armed groups

Colombians will choose on Sunday between two men whose lives have been very differently shaped by the militias, and whose visions for the country are poles apart

Artist and former footballer Luan Medeiros organised painting to bring joy to square after 122 people were killed in last October’s police operation

Amanda Maria Souza de Oliveira faces fraud charges after allegedly persuading family to take her into their home

Brazilian judge rules there is enough evidence to try Ruben Dario da Silva Villar over killings of journalist and activist

Abelardo de la Espriella, promising an iron-fist approach to crime, leads polls in country’s presidential runoff election

Success of far-right presidential candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella, suggests some voters are ‘fed up with politics’

Lawyer and Trump admirer has risen rapidly in the polls and will face Iván Cepeda in election runoff in three weeks

In 2006 police took revenge for deadly prison riots by killing more than 500 people in alleged shootouts that others call executions. A court is to rule on compensation for victims

Sunday’s presidential vote is contest between left and right – and between contradictory proposals for dealing with the decades-long armed conflict

Announcement by Marco Rubio is being widely seen as setback for Brazil’s president, and a boost for his far-right challenger

Case involving seven-year-old boy is latest flashpoint in debate over race relations in Latin America

The film-maker talks about her homeland’s ‘racism, paternalism and infantilisation’ towards Indigenous people and her award-winning documentary about a community leader’s murder

Despite its majority Afro-descendant population, fewer than 10% of public monuments across Rio commemorate Black people. Photographer María Magdalena Arréllaga chronicles the project seeking to redres...

Clashes between demonstrators and police in La Paz have entered second week, shaking centre-right president

All victims of US strikes in eastern Pacific and the Caribbean identified so far came from extremely poor communities

Flávio Bolsonaro, Brazil’s leading rightwing presidential hopeful, caught on tape asking banker for millions

Environmentalists hail decline but warn weakened laws could reverse gains

Some chats can get up to 600 voice notes a day and reach the 1,024-member limit in less than 24 hours

President Lula’s veto of the bill was overturned by Brazil’s congress and senate, meaning it now awaits confirmation by supreme court

Four years after president’s pledge, his would-be successors are divided on how to tackle rising guerrilla attacks

People across Latin America and the Caribbean find themselves without care as countries bow to US pressure

Francia Márquez, the country’s first Black vice-president, opens up about the strains in her relationship with the president and the obstacles she has faced: ‘The Colombian state is a racist state’