A leading Cuban dissident and activist has been released from jail as part of a wider prisoner release deal between the Cuban government and the United States. Jose Daniel...

Cuba has started to release the first of hundreds of prisoners it agreed to free following a deal with the United States. Under the agreement brokered by the Catholic...

Getty ImagesUS President Joe Biden gave his final foreign policy address earlier this weekThe US will remove Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, Joe Biden has...

The number of people internally displaced by gang violence in Haiti has tripled to more than one million, the United Nations' International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned on Tuesday.The...

At least 10 people have died after landslides swept through two cities in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, state officials have said.The Bethania neighbourhood in the city of...

Fritz Pinnow"It all started as a small passion project," says Fabriccio Díaz, 28, who, together with his wife Lucía Ramírez, 25, runs the only fully operational photo film development...

Getty ImagesThe US has announced an increased $25m (£20.4m) reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on the day he was sworn in for...

Venezuela's opposition says its leader María Corina Machado was briefly arrested and then freed after addressing a protest rally on the eve of President Nicolás Maduro's disputed inauguration.Machado, 57,...

Daniel Arce-Lopez/BBC"They have already tortured me and repressed me, but they will not silence me. My voice is the only thing I have left."This is how Juan, a young...

Panama has insisted that its sovereignty over the Panama Canal is "non-negotiable" after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out military force to seize it.Trump made the remark...

US President Joe Biden has called the exiled candidate for Venezuela's opposition, Edmundo González, "the true winner" of the country's presidential election last July after meeting him at the...

Chile's President Gabriel Boric has become the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole, after arriving at a US base there.The president said his visit to...