At least five people have been killed after a Mexican Navy plane crashed in foggy conditions near Galveston, Texas on Monday while transporting a child burns victim.According to flight...

Venezuela has accused the United States of the "greatest extortion" at an emergency session of the UN Security Council in New York. Washington's seizure of two Venezuelan oil tankers...

The jailed ex-president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has undergone a successful surgery for a double hernia, his wife Michelle says. The former leader is serving a 27-year sentence for...

Nasry Asfura has been declared the winner of Honduras's presidential election, after weeks of delays following technical problems and allegations of fraud. The conservative National Party candidate - backed...

Donald Trump has said the US will keep or sell the crude oil contained on tankers it has seized off the coast of Venezuela, as well as the vessels...

BBC Verify has been investigating the US Coast Guard's "active pursuit" of a ship - believed to be the Bella 1 - in international waters off the coast of...

Will GrantBBC Central America correspondentReutersThe world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, is among the ships which have been deployed to the Caribbean The escalating tension between the...

Ángel BermúdezBBC News MundoReutersThe US seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on 10 DecemberIn a further escalation of tension between the United States and Venezuela, President...

Vanessa BuschschlüterLatin America editor, BBC News OnlineReutersUS President Donald Trump has been ramping up pressure on Venezuela's leader, President Nicolás Maduro.In a sharp escalation of Washington's campaign, on 16...

Ecuador defender Mario Pineida has died at the age of 33 after being shot in Guayaquil.Local media reported that Pineida was shot on Wednesday by two people on motorbikes...

US President Donald Trump has ordered "a total and complete" blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela - a move denounced by Caracas as "warmongering threats".Trump...

Vanessa BuschschlüterLatin America editor, BBC News OnlineGetty ImagesUS President Trump signed an executive order classifying fentanyl as a "weapon of mass destruction"The United States has designated a notorious drug-trafficking...