Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a five-percentage-point lead over far-right opposition candidate Flavio Bolsonaro six days before the first round of the presidential election, according to a Quaest voting-intention
As his presidency enters its final months, Gustavo Petro is no longer tempering his words. Facing the end of his term on August 7, Colombia’s first left wing president in decades has
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On Sunday, 12 April 2026, Peru held presidential and parliamentary elections for the 2026–2031 term. The deepening political crisis in which Peru has been mired since 2017, the social and economic crisis—recently
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The United States has quietly moved to loosen key financial restrictions on Venezuela’s central banking system, offering what analysts describe as a tactical and politically charged reprieve for the government in Caracas
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Ecuador has entered a heightened state of alert following President Daniel Noboa’s declaration of a 60-day state of emergency affecting nine provinces and four cantons, including the country’s largest cities, Quito and
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Across the hillside capital of Caracas, a quiet transformation is underway. Murals of former presidents Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro are being plastered over, billboards once emblazoned with their slogans removed, and
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Cuba’s government authorized the release of 2,010 prisoners in a sweeping pardon, state-run newspaper Granma reported Thursday, a move timed with the island beginning to see relief from a crippling energy blockade.
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It has been fifty years since the coup d’état of 24 March 1976, one of the most tragic chapters in Argentina’s recent history: a dictatorship that combined state terrorism with a structural
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Colombian authorities have dealt a significant удар to international drug trafficking by seizing four tons of cocaine valued at more than $170 million in the northwestern Urabá region. The operation, which intercepted
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Why are many Latin American countries shutting down nonprofit organizations? Amnesty International claims it has the answer: in every case, it’s part of a drive to restrict human rights and “tear up
More A Venezuelan delegation has arrived in Washington, D.C., marking a significant step toward restoring relations between Venezuela and United States at a time of deep political uncertainty in Caracas. Sent by acting
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United Nations “experts” on Nicaragua, working to sanitize the effects of a failed, U.S.-inspired coup attempt, have not visited the country since the violence occurred eight years ago. Yet, for them, Nicaragua
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Gustavo González López, the architect of Venezuela’s notorious torture and intelligence apparatus, has been promoted to defence minister in a sweeping government reshuffle orchestrated by interim president Delcy Rodríguez. For over a
More In the wake of Washington’s January 3 military attack and then problematic détente with Caracas, corporate media suggest a meaningful shift in Venezuela policy, implying relief for a country long subjected to
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Illegal gold mining has exploded along Costa Rica’s northern border, spreading over more than 3,000 hectares and overwhelming local authorities, according to reports highlighted by El Pais. The region, which began as
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Masked federal agents kidnap a father as he waits to pick up his child from school. An ice cream cart is abandoned on the sidewalk, its vendor disappeared. A young man is
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