Latin America

Ten police officers have been arrested in Colombia on suspicion of involvement in the killing of three youths. The three were shot dead while in police custody in northern Sucre province on 25 July. A police colonel, the highest-ranking officer...

The search for 10 Mexican miners trapped in a flooded colliery could take between six and 11 months, relatives say they have been told. "We can't accept this," Juani Cabriales, the sister of one of the workers, told AFP after...

Brazilian twins who were joined at the head have been successfully separated with the help of virtual reality. Three-year-olds Bernardo and Arthur Lima underwent surgeries in Rio de Janeiro, with direction from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. The teams...

Once the envy of Central America for anticorruption efforts that took down a sitting president, Guatemala’s attorney general’s office in recent years has been accused of blocking corruption investigations, protecting powerful interests and even persecuting those who pursue the corrupt....

More than 20 people have been injured in clashes between migrants and police in the town of Tapachula, on Mexico's southern border, officials say. Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) said about 100 migrants, mainly from Cuba, Haiti and countries in...

A Venezuelan woman was shot and wounded and her nine-month-old baby was killed in her arms when Trinidad and Tobago’s coast guard opened fire on the boat carrying migrants fleeing their home country. In a statement posted on Facebook, the coast guard...

At least 21 people have died in floods and landslides caused by torrential rains in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, officials say. Nine others have been injured and many more are missing, while more than 600 families have been...

Indigenous women raped by paramilitaries during Guatemala’s brutal civil war have triumphed in court, when their aggressors were sentenced to 30 years each in prison. In a verdict hailed as a vindication for survivors who have spent years fighting for...

Ten people have been killed after part of a cliff collapsed onto leisure boats on a Brazilian lake. Another 32 were injured in the accident in the south-east of the country. Video circulating online shows the moment the rock detaches...

apnews— Sorrow for the dead and dying, fear of more infections to come and hopes for an end to the coronavirus pandemic were — again — the bittersweet cocktail with which the world said good riddance to 2021 and ushered...