Coup d’états, both plotted and achieved, have been an integral part of Bolivian history since the Andean nation achieved its independence in 1825. No country...

Argentina slid into recession in the opening months of this year as the economy suffered from a fall in demand amid sharp cuts to government spending pushed...

The government of Honduras plans to build a 20,000-capacity “mega-prison” as part of a crackdown on gang violence, mirroring the hard-line anti-crime strategy...

The morning began with a prayer in a semi-circle around shovels and pickaxes laid out in the dirt. On a hillside above the central Mexican city of Jacona, a...

Hundreds of protesters threw petrol bombs and clashed with riot police outside Argentina’s parliament yesterday after the senate narrowly approved the first...

The arrival of an unusual flotilla in Havana harbour was heralded by the thunderous sound of cannon fire, as 21 guns saluted a Russian “strike group” of...

When the ultra-libertarian candidate Javier Milei won Argentina’s presidential elections last year, some of his shocked opponents consoled themselves with the...

She is a Nobel prizewinner with an engineering PhD, an accomplished ballet dancer, the first female head of government of Mexico City, and now president-elect...

Mexico’s newly elected and first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, was celebrated on Monday as an ambitious moderniser. But the success of her mission will...

Mexico has elected the first woman president in its history after the left-wing candidate Claudia Sheinbaum won an unprecedented landslide victory. The former...