Vanessa BuschschlüterLatin America editor, BBC News OnlineMAURICIO TORRES/EPAAdolfo Macías Villamar was taken to a maximum-security jailPolice in Ecuador have recaptured the country's most wanted fugitive, drug lord Adolfo Macías...

Venezuela's former head of military intelligence, Hugo Carvajal - also known as "El Pollo", or The Chicken - has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges in the...

A court in Costa Rica has ordered the release of 200 migrants deported from the US. Rights groups say the group - from countries including Afghanistan, China, Ghana, India...

A Brazilian tourist who fell while hiking near the crater of an active volcano in Indonesia has been found dead, her family and rescuers said.Juliana Marins survived the initial...

ReutersThe Trump administration said a Salvadoran man who was mistakenly deported and then brought back to the US on criminal charges will "never go free" on American soil, even...

Cameras have captured the moment an 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook Lima, Peru on Sunday morning, causing panic among worshipers at the city's cathedral.The epicentre was recorded 23km off the...

Hurricane Erick came ashore as a Category 3 storm Thursday morning hitting Mexico's Pacific coast between the resort towns of Acapulco and Puerto Escondido.The BBC's partner, CBS News, reported...

Panama has declared an emergency in its main banana-producing region, after shops were looted and buildings vandalised in ongoing protests over a pension reform. The government says constitutional rights...

Southern Mexico began a major clean-up on Thursday in the aftermath of Hurricane Erick, which hit its Pacific coast as a powerful Category 3 storm.The tourist town of Puerto...

Will GrantMexico and Central America correspondentVanessa BuschschlüterBBC NewsReutersSilvia Delgado was part of the legal defence team representing Joaquín "El Chapo" GuzmánA former defence lawyer for the jailed drug lord...

Vanessa BuschschlüterBBC NewsEPAColombians have taken part in marches in support of Uribe after he was shotDoctors treating Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay have warned that he is in...

Gunmen have killed the mayor of the Mexican municipality of San Mateo Piñas in the latest deadly attack on local officials. Witnesses said four armed men arrived on motorcycles,...