Mexico has said US military would not be entering its territory following reports that President Donald Trump had directed the Pentagon to target Latin American drug cartels."The United States...

Alejandro Millán ValenciaBBC News MundoBBCResidents of Pampa Clemesí, in southern Peru, rely on flashlights to make their way through the darknessEach morning, Rosa Chamami wakes to flames licking at...

Nawal Al-Maghafi and Jasmin DyerBBC World Service, reporting from Port-au-PrinceBBC/ Phil PendleburyHelene says the gang told her to have an abortion but she wanted to keep her baby and...

The US has doubled a reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to $50m (£37.2m), accusing him of being "one of the largest narco-traffickers...

Gustavo OcandoReporting for BBC Mundo from Maracaibo, VenezuelaGustavo OcandoMervin Yamarte says his tattoos led to him being mistaken in the US for a gang member and deported to El...

Camilla Veras MotaBBC News BrasilReporting fromMaceió, Alagoas state BBCRute Freires lives with her daughter Tamara, who has congenital Zika syndromeWhen Rute Freires was told by a doctor that her...

Nine people, including an Irish missionary and a three-year-old child, were kidnapped from an orphanage near Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince on Sunday, an official has said.Gena Heraty, the facility's director,...

Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsBernardo Reyes-TurA Polymita snail in its native forest habitat in Eastern Cuba Researchers have embarked on a mission to save what some consider to be...

Rescuers in Chile are continuing to search for four miners trapped in a mine that collapsed after an earthquake two days ago, after the body of one was found.The...

Colombian former President Álvaro Uribe has been sentenced to 12 years of house arrest for witness tampering and a fraud charge.The 73-year-old is the first former president in the...

Ione WellsSouth America correspondent in São PauloGetty ImagesPresident Trump and Brazilian then-President Bolsonaro at Mar-a-Lago in 2020Brazil thought it had gotten off lightly on the Trump tariff front.In April,...

US officials said on Wednesday that they will sanction Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes, accusing him of authorising "arbitrary pre-trial detentions" and suppressing "freedom of expression".Judge Moraes...