• June 20 2024
  Venezuela

  Venezuela opposition leader says only huge fraud can stop victory

  Banned from standing for president, María Corina Machado is the opposition’s biggest asset ahead of July election

  
• June 8 2024
  News in-depthMexico

  Mexico’s elite struggles to comprehend left’s landslide election win

  Wealthy are out of touch with the majority of ordinary people, critics say

  
• June 4 2024
  Mexico

  Mexico’s finance minister tries to reassure jittery investors

  Hasty conference call fails to calm markets after election landslide

  
• June 4 2024
  Mexico

  Five challenges facing Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum

  Big budget deficit and record number of murders top the president-elect’s worries

  
• June 4 2024
  Mexico

  Mexico election winner Sheinbaum vows continuity as investors fret

  Peso tumbles as leftwing ruling party and allies eye constitutional changes

  
• June 3 2024
  Instant InsightMexican politics

  Claudia Sheinbaum’s mandate is huge but so are her challenges

  Mexico’s president-elect will have less money to spend and a very hard political act to follow

  
• May 31 2024
  Person in the News

  Claudia Sheinbaum, the woman hoping to be Mexico’s first female president

  She was formed by the campus protests of the 1980s, but supporters insist she is not an ideologue

  
• May 22 2024
  Inside BusinessMexico

  Reality checks await investors enjoying Mexico’s party

  Bankers and companies are optimistic but there are some critical areas of concern

  
• May 21 2024
  The Big Read

  Mexico’s drug cartels are thriving

  The outgoing president said he would tackle gangs with ‘hugs not bullets’. Five years on, violence is worse than ever

  
• May 20 2024
  Ebrahim Raisi

  Condolences pour in as Iran mourns Raisi

  Reaction in west more muted as capitals consider impact of president’s death on Tehran’s leadership and geopolitical tensions

  
• May 20 2024
  Mexico

  Mexico eyes tax squeeze on banks to raise revenue

  New government will need to plug hole in public finances

  
• May 19 2024
  Mexico

  Mexico’s main opposition candidate vows to confront cartels

  Xóchitl Gálvez says ordinary people have taken too many bullets under Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s presidency

  
• May 15 2024
  Special ReportInvesting in Minas Gerais

  The governor who is a dark horse for Brazil’s next presidential race

  Minas Gerais businessman-turned-politician Romeu Zema plays down talk of 2026 bid, but analysts are not convinced

  
• May 10 2024
  Colombia

  Colombia’s leftist leader turns radical with bid to rewrite constitution

  Former guerrilla Gustavo Petro demands ‘people’s assemblies’ to implement sweeping reforms

  
• May 8 2024
  InterviewMexico

  Mexico’s presidential frontrunner defends sweeping legal reforms

  Claudia Sheinbaum wants to see supreme court and election commissioners chosen by voters

  
• May 4 2024
  News in-depthDrug trafficking

  El Chapo’s opium heartland bereft as Mexico cartels embrace fentanyl

  Poppy and marijuana farming money disappear from rural areas as traffickers shift to synthetic drugs

  
• April 28 2024
  Global trade

  Biden adviser backs bill to counter China in Latin America

  Chris Dodd sees chance Congress could pass legislation this year with bipartisan support

  
• April 17 2024
  Venezuela

  US reimposes oil sanctions on Venezuela after broken election promises

  Biden administration says Maduro has ‘fallen short’ on pledge of free and fair presidential race

  
• April 10 2024
  Global InsightLatin America

  Latin America is beating the world at trading insults

  Vicious spats and name-calling are paralysing co-operation across the region

  
• April 10 2024
  Borderlands

  The migrant highway that could sway the US election

  The Darién Gap has become a key migration route for people heading towards the US

  
• April 7 2024
  Ecuador

  Ecuador condemned over late-night raid on Mexico’s embassy in Quito

  Noboa government’s detention of a former vice-president being sheltered in diplomatic mission arouses global ire

  
• April 7 2024
  Ecuador

  Ecuador sparks diplomatic crisis after police storm Mexican embassy

  Daniel Noboa orders police to seize a former vice-president who was sheltering in the mission

  
• April 4 2024
  Peru

  Peru’s problems run deeper than Rolexes

  Corruption has discredited an entire political class

  
• March 26 2024
  Peru

  China megaport builder hits back as Peru moves to scrap exclusivity deal

  Lima reverses course on right to operate controversial Chancay project

  
• March 26 2024
  Venezuela

  Venezuela’s Maduro thwarts main opposition candidates ahead of election

  Socialist president clears the way for re-election in July vote