Latin America

The region's politics would be much less interesting without these huff-and-puff summits with their customary grandstanding and squabbles.

The outage meant hundreds of millions of people in Latin America could not communicate on the messaging app for several hours.

The Lambda variant, also known as C.37, was first detected in Peru in August 2020 and has since spread to other countries, many in Latin America.

Venezuelans have waited far too long for justice from the predatory Maduro regime.

"It is important for the international community to speak up in support of the Cuban people," a State Department spokesperson told Newsweek.

Biden should take his cue from China and realize America, whether he likes it or not, is involved in a ferocious struggle everywhere.

Last week, a slim majority of Peruvians voted Pedro Castillo, a rural school teacher, to be their next president.

The vice president told potential migrants not to come to the U.S. on a visit to Guatemala on Monday.

"I wholeheartedly support what [the Biden administration] is trying to do and I'm sure they're going to receive lots of criticism. But it's a long-term process, so I salute them for getting started," Mayor John Ferguson of Presidio, Texas, told Newsweek.

She made the comments in response to Vice President Kamala Harris telling migrants not to cross over the border into the U.S.

With poverty and corruption endemic, political reform rare and ineffective and the COVID-19 pandemic making matters worse, there is abundant popular discontent for the totalitarians to exploit. Let us hope they fail.

During the last few years, Movimiento Ciudadano has been consistent in its political attitudes and actions, which have positioned it as a different option.

No vaccines should be wasted and oversupply should be used beyond U.S. borders because after all, the pandemic goes beyond personal choice and frontiers.

The president's reforms have been criticized for favoring the wealthy and placing more strain on the working and middle classes.

Most Salvadorans are left to decide between becoming a part of the country's growing criminal underworld or joining a migrant caravan destined for the United States.

The average denizen of Tegucigalpa is more familiar with changes to our immigration policies than most Americans are.

President Biden faces a historic opportunity to take advantage of the pro-democracy surge happening inside and outside of Cuba.

Crazy conspiracies have always been around, but the pandemic has given conspiracists a stage like never before.

Verónica García Fuentes, 36, from the state of Tachira in Venezuela, fell ill with a fever in mid-December, but kept her diagnosis a secret out of fear.

Joe Biden believes, and he has for years, that conditions must be improved in Latin America if the United States wants to slow immigration. A less antagonistic U.S. approach is coming.

Whether the ICC decides to investigate Venezuela could determine its future.

Fifty countries, including the U.S., were reported to still be "near the peak of their infection curve," according to data compiled by Reuters.

Arce was Bolivia's Minister of Economy and Public Finance during Evo Morales' nearly 14-year presidency.

Argentina still has real work to do to reach out to its Jewish community and right its past wrongs.

Many politicos are befuddled as to how Latinos could possibly support the president. It's actually fairly simple.

The country has overtaken the number of cases in Italy and Spain, reporting the fourth-highest number of infections in the world after the U.S., Russia and the U.K.

"With their neighbors inside, some hunters are spending quarantine targeting jaguars, pumas and ocelots," Esteban Payán from Panthera told Newsweek.

Some 13,500 U.S. citizens abroad have sought U.S. assistance in returning home, a senior State Department official has said.

Russia warned against "attempts being made in this region of the world to repeat the scenario of the infamous "color revolutions" in a thinly-veiled criticism of U.S. intervention.

Authorities need public policies, infrastructure and services to help fully integrate new arrivals and ensure they fuel growth instead of becoming a burden.