In many parts of the region, big companies take over lands for mining or farming. This forces farmers and indigenous people to leave their homes. These

Colombia’s government is offering a roughly $700,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of four leaders of a rebel group behind the deadly violence affecting a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela.

The US-based Rockefeller Foundation has announced Lyana Latorre as its new vice president and head of Latin America and the Caribbean.   Latore will help establish a new team and oversee the foundation’s new regional

President Donald Trump’s second term began on January 20 with a focus on Latin America.

This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the Caribbean. The selection was curated by AP photographer Esteban Félix,

Juan Cruz Díaz, Brian Winter, and Carin Zissis discuss the region's place in Trump's inauguration and first executive orders.

Google the most violent region of the world and Latin America will come up. Violence in the region takes many forms and starts young. Data from UNICEF shows nearly two in three children aged 1–14 years in Latin America and the Caribbean face violent discipline at home.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro says he will declare an emergency over the guerrilla attacks in the northeast that have killed dozens of people and forced thousands to flee.

Colombia's president says ELN rebels will 'get war' as violence in the country's northeast escalates - Colombian president Gustavo Petro is warning that his nation’s military will take offensive actions against the National Liberation Army after the rebels,

The direct costs of crime and violence in Latin America reached 3.44% of the region’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2022, mostly unchanged from a previous IDB study published in 2017.

Many people in Latin America and the Caribbean live in poverty. Wealth often stays with a few powerful families. Big companies take natural resources but

EL PAÍS spoke with meteorologists to understand how this phenomenon could impact Latin America and the Caribbean. Barbara Tapia Cortés of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) explains that La Niña typically brings wetter conditions to Central ...