Guatemalan former president Otto Perez

Guatemalan authorities have accused former president Otto Perez and his vice president Roxana Baldetti of further corruption for their involvement in bribes and public contracts amid an investigation into widespread corruption.... More


Bolivian President Evo Morales has criticized the government of neighbor Chile due to an increase in export rates in the port of Antofagasta, through which all Bolivian imports enter paying lower taxes.... More


Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has been elected by the Sandinista National Liberation Front, the FSLN, as its candidate to run in the November 6th presidential elections.... More


Brazilian interim president Michel Temer has ordered the Institutional Security Office -- an agency tasked with providing intelligence and spying services to the country’s president and his cabinet -- to spy on President Dilma Rousseff and her Worker's Party... More


Tributes rolled in from around the world of sports, entertainment and politics following the death of the legendary boxer and fighter for peace and justice, Muhammad Ali... More


Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has strongly denounced the ongoing military drills by NATO in Eastern Europe, threatening to take unspecified measures to respond to increased activity by the Western military bloc near its borders.... More


Flooding caused by days of torrential rain has claimed the lives of four people in France after the water level of River Seine around the capital, Paris, hit its highest in about 35 years.... More


Environmental crime is the world’s 4th largest criminal enterprise, after drug smuggling, counterfeiting and human trafficking, according to a new report.... More


Indian police have arrested members of an organ trafficking gang operating at a top Delhi hospital. ... More


Hundreds of protesters have held demonstrations in Bristol, Britain to campaign for and against immigration, with police officers in riot gear and riding on horses in the streets.... More


Amid fears over Donald Trump’s immigration policies record numbers of Latinos are applying for U.S. citizenships and voter registration ahead of elections.... More


Labor unions from Argentina’s energy sector are protesting the policies imposed by President Mauricio Macri.... More


Ecuador's April earthquake will knock an estimated 0.7 percentage point off gross domestic product this year and require $3.34 billion for reconstruction.... More


Former Uruguayan President José Mujica

Former Uruguayan President José Mujica told local media outlets that pressure from Washington on the Organization of American States (OAS) is “unbearable” ... More


Argentina’s government has decided that it will remove the paintings of Juan Domingo Peron and Ernesto "Che" Guevara, among other important Latin American historical figures, from the Hall of American Patriots at the Casa Rosada, the president’s office.... More


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