Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro has won a sweeping victory in Brazil’s presidential election. Mr Bolsonaro won 55.2% of the votes cast against 44.8% for Fernando Haddad...
A Guatemalan court sentenced former Vice President Roxana Baldetti to more than 15 years in prison for involvement in a fraudulent state contract. A U.N.-backed anti-corruption...
Nearly 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico in the six months after Hurricane Maria as a result of the storm, with the elderly and improverished most...
Ecuador has brought in new rules to stop Venezuelan migrants entering the country without a passport, leaving many stranded in neighbouring Colombia. Thousands of Venezuelans fleeing...
At least 12 fans of Ecuadorean football team Barcelona SC have been killed and 30 injured when the bus they were travelling in overturned. The fans...
Venezuela’s controversial Constituent Assembly marks its first anniversary on Saturday as the embodiment of President Nicolas Maduro’s entrenchment in power despite an economic crisis that has...
A plane has crashed in the capital of Mexico’s Durango state, television images show, with the state governor confirming nobody was killed. Governor José Aispuro tweeted...
Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega has refused to bow to protesters’ demands that he stand down. He said the deaths of about 300 people during three months...
Catholic Argentina’s lower house has backed a bill legalizing abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. After a divisive debate lasting more than 22 hours,...
Police and prosecutors in Chile have raided offices and seized documents of the Roman Catholic Church amid a child sexual abuse and cover-up scandal. The surprise...