Peru's constitutional court has overturned a 15-year jail sentence handed to the country's former president after he was found guilty of corruption.Ollanta Humala, who led the country from 2011...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who has been in power since 2007, has proposed extending the presidential term by another year. The government-controlled National Assembly is expected to approve the...

These laboratories, where Mexicans have been working, have since been uncovered in Kenya, Mozambique and in South Africa.Since 2023 "we've seen…14 Mexican-operated labs in total . We saw...

The BBC's Orla Guerin goes on patrol with Ecuador's police, who are grappling with a huge surge in drug crime.Drugs have been pouring into Ecuador from neighbouring Colombia and...

Brazil has recalled its ambassador to Argentina in protest over what it said were "insults" levelled by Argentine President Javier Milei against his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da...

Nicaragua's government-controlled National Assembly is debating whether to bar opposition parties from running in elections and will vote on the matter in the first week of August.The move comes...

At one of the pancaked private buildings, in the coastal town of Catia La Mar, an unlikely rescue took place eight days after the earthquakes struck. From beneath the...

Families in Venezuela are still searching for the remains of their loved ones, lost amid the rubble of flattened apartment buildings that line the coast of La Guaira, the...

The trial of ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, is scheduled to begin on 1 June 2027, a New York judge ordered on Wednesday. Maduro...

In 2024, the Amazon rainforest experienced its worst forest fires in over two decades, which the Copernicus Climate Change Service put down to "climate extremes and human activity". "The...

One of the most notorious figures in Mexico's drug cartels, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, will spend the rest of his life in prison, a US judge has ruled, two...

Ecstatic Spanish spectators and disappointed Argentine fans spoke to the BBC outside New York New Jersey Stadium after the World Cup final on Sunday.Argentina played extra time with only...