The Latest Breaking News from Latin America

Oct. 3-9, 2025

Three environmental defenders – people who take action against the exploitation of natural resources – are murdered or disappeared somewhere in the world every week. The latest report by Global Witness, an NGO that investigates environmental and human rights abuses, has recorded more than 2,250 such cases since 2012.

With a yellow straw hat and a wicked toothy grin, he bobs among crowds of protesting youngsters from Asia to Africa to Latin America and Europe -- a smirking reproach to governments everywhere.

Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 2025

From the streets of Santiago to the sets of John Wick: Chapter 4 and Machete Kills, Marko Zaror has earned a reputation as Latin America's most physical action hero. But with his new film Affinity, he takes a dramatic turn. This time, the fight choreography shares space with something far…

An expert in Latin American geopolitics claimed in an op-ed published in the New York Times that high-ranking officials in the Trump administration are seeking the end of the Maduro regime through the U.S's military operation in the Caribbean

Corpay, Inc. (NYSE: CPAY) and Mastercard Inc. (NYSE: MA) said on Monday they are expanding their partnership to allow companies, small businesses and financial institutions to send near real-time payments to 22 additional markets across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

China warned on Friday that U.S. military activity in the Caribbean poses a threat to peace in Latin America, criticizing Washington's recent deployment of warships near Venezuela.

Sept. 19-25, 2025