Guatemala sends 150 soldiers to Haiti's capital to help a UN-backed force tackle powerful armed gangs. Gabriel Boric is the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole, stressing Chile's ...

Latin America is now the worst-hit region in the ... therefore be interpreted with caution," a PAHO spokesperson told the BBC. The region as a whole had seen more than 8.8 million cases and ...

Latin America has to find a more strategic way ... it if there was a meaningful alternative to China," he tells the BBC. Unlike many others, he sees some rays of hope from the incoming Trump ...

and assume that the British left Latin America to the CIA," Prof Cormac told the BBC. After a diplomat named Ronnie Burroughs visited Latin America on behalf of the British Foreign Office and MI6 ...

Trinidad and Tobago has declared a state of emergency as gang violence in the Caribbean nation continues to escalate.

The new ruling is likely to anger Mexico's more conservative politicians and the Catholic Church, in what is Latin America's second largest Catholic nation. However, the Church's influence has ...

Read more country profiles, external - Profiles by BBC Monitoring ... Nicaragua becomes part of the United Provinces of Central America, which also comprises Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala ...

They have long been fighting for recognition as Chile's constitution - drawn up during Gen Augusto Pinochet's military rule - is the only one in Latin America not to acknowledge its indigenous people.

Under his presidency, El Salvador has been transformed from one of the most violent countries in the world to one of the safest in Latin America. Mr Bukele, a former mayor of the capital ...

At a nearby market, several street hawkers told the BBC they had no other option but to leave their homes, even with gunmen roaming the streets. "I have three kids, and I'm all they have - I'm ...