Cuba will bar foreign visitors from entering the country for a month starting Tuesday in a bid to contain the...
Paraguay on Friday confirmed the first death in the country due to coronavirus, the health ministry said on Twitter. Earlier on Friday, President Mario Abdo extended...
Brazil’s coronavirus death toll rose to seven on Thursday, including the first fatalities in tourist hotspot Rio de Janeiro, as Latin America’s largest nation closed more...
Fifteen children have died in Haiti after a fire swept through an orphanage on the outskirts of the capital. The cause of the fire was being...
Fossils of a turtle the size of a car have been unearthed in what is now northern South America. The turtle – Stupendemys geographicus – is...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he is “deeply concerned” about the increased production of coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, in Colombia. At...
Mark Vito Villanella, the U.S.-born husband of jailed Peru politician Keiko Fujimori, is now facing charges of money laundering. Prosecutor Jose Domingo Perez formally opened investigations...
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...
