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Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness, 53, has won a rare third term in office after his Labour Party sailed to…

Gerardo Lissardy and Caitlin WilsonBBC Mundo and BBC NewsGetty ImagesThe US has moved additional warships into the CaribbeanFirst, the US…

Guyanese President Irfaan Ali has claimed a second five-year term in office, even as official final results from Monday’s general…

Tom McArthurBBC News andChris GrahamBBC NewsSTR/EPA/ShutterstockThe painting by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi after it was recovered in ArgentinaA long lost…

Matt Murphy & Joshua CheethamBBC Verify Donald Trump/Truth SocialA strike carried out by US forces on a boat in the…

Vanessa BuschschlüterLatin America editor, BBC News OnlineReutersFormer President Jair Bolsonaro is under house arrestThe trial of the former Brazilian president,…

Lawyers for Jair Bolsonaro will present their defence arguments at his trial at the Supreme Court in Brasília on Wednesday.The…

U.S. pressure to crack down on corrupt politicians has squeezed President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico ahead of her meeting with…

President Donald Trump says the US has carried out a strike against a drug-carrying vessel in the southern Caribbean, killing…

Alberta ordered schools to pull ‘inappropriate’ books, but paused its plan after a large school district banned scores of books…

President Trump has ordered military action against Latin American drug cartels and has threatened a new tariff. President Claudia Sheinbaum…

Brazil’s Supreme Court began judging the case against the former president, who did not attend the proceedings because of poor…

As U.S. warships and troops gather in the Caribbean, Mr. Maduro threatened an “armed fight” in response to any military…

Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, stands trial on Tuesday, accused of plotting a coup after losing the 2022 elections. Evidence…

The former Brazilian president is charged with planning a coup after losing the 2022 elections. He says he pursued only…

The coup trial of Brazil’s right-wing former President Jair Bolsonaro will enter its final stage on Tuesday.He is accused of…

An all-female research group, As Meteoriticas, scours the South American country’s interior aiming to preserve meteorites for scientific study and…

Security forces in Guyana say a boat carrying election officials and ballot boxes was shot at “from the Venezuelan shore”…

Jessica LawrenceBBC News NINPH InternationalGena Heraty was among several people taken in Kenscoff, near Haiti’s capitalThe family of kidnapped missionary…

Josephine Casserly and Ellie HouseBBC News in FloridaBBCYaneisy Fernandez’s son was taken to Alligator Alcatraz, an immigration detention centre in…

Under pressure from the government and each other, some of Mexico’s most powerful criminal groups are amassing homemade mortars, land…

new video loaded: Mexico’s Cartels Are Using Military WeaponsBy Paulina Villegas, Leila Medina, Melanie Bencosme and David Jouppi•September 1, 2025Recent…

A giant fire last year consumed much of Canada’s Jasper National Park. Canadian scientists leading research into wildfires are using…

Inter Miami forward Luis Suarez appeared to spit at a member of the Seattle Sounders’ coaching staff following his side’s…