REUTERS/Sebastian CastanedaPolice surrounded the Congress buildingPolice and young anti-government protesters clashed in the Peruvian capital, Lima, over the weekend.A rights group said at least 18 protesters had been injured...

Ione WellsSouth America correspondent andOttilie MitchellBBCA humanitarian convoy led by Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa was attacked and 17 soldiers taken hostage on Sunday night, according to a government spokeswoman.Carolina...

Nicole KolsterReporting for BBC News Mundo from CaracasNicole Kolster/BBCEdith Perales joined the militia years ago When Edith Perales was younger, he enlisted in the National Bolivarian Militia, a civilian...

Watch: Thousands march in Argentina over murder of girl and two young womenThousands of people have taken part in an anti-femicide protest in Buenos Aires, demanding justice for a...

Police say 13 inmates and one prison guard have been killed and another 14 people injured in clashes between rival gangs in a jail in Ecuador.People living near the...

Police in Bolivia have arrested the country's former counternarcotics czar after finding a cocaine lab on one of his properties, although it is not yet clear if he was...

The leader of Mexico-based evangelical megachurch La Luz del Mundo (Light of the World) has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges in a court in New York.Naasón Joaquín...

Getty ImagesBrazil's chief prosecutor has charged the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro with coercion, according to an official statement on Monday.The attorney general's office has alleged Eduardo Bolsonaro,...

Getty ImagesUS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said the US is "ready to do what is needed" to help stabilise Argentina's escalating financial turmoil."All options for stabilization are on...

Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has defended the trial which saw his predecessor in office, Jair Bolsonaro, sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for plotting...

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney are expected to meet in Mexico on Thursday. The goal of the meeting is to kickstart a new economic...

President Donald Trump has said US forces carried out a "lethal kinetic strike" on a vessel which he said was trafficking drugs, and the attack killed three "male narcoterrorists"...