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...

It was a bittersweet moment for Marielis Lopez, 26, when she was handed the keys to a free two-bedroom prefabricated house on the Panamanian mainland. “I am...

The British ambassador to Mexico has been removed from his post after a video emerged online of him jokingly pointing what appears to be an assault rifle at...

A gunman shot dead an aspiring mayor at a rally in Mexico, marking a bloody end to campaigning before Sunday’s general election. More than 20 people running...