A brash bid to reassert U.S. dominance is delivering short-term wins. But a region tired of being pushed around may not stay ...

Organized crime in Latin America is proving difficult to defeat with the kind of decapitation strategy apparently favored by ...

Masked federal agents kidnap a father as he waits to pick up his child from school. An ice cream cart is abandoned on the sidewalk, its vendor ...

The struggle for immigration justice has become increasingly inseparable from the global fight against authoritarianism.

Chile has joined other Latin American countries seeking to legislate surrogacy, which has expanded across the region with ...

When 33-year-old Brazilian woman Emily de Souza heard about a program allowing her to shave off four days from her prison ...

Brazilian inmates find relief and reduce sentences through reading - Brazil has a nationwide program that lets prisoners cut their sentences by reading books and proving they understood them ...

The Cuban government has announced it will pardon more than 2,000 prisoners, its second such release in less than a month.

Why do leaders, and the societies that follow them, so often misjudge reality so badly? And why does that failure keep ...

President Donald Trump is cultivating a functional authoritarianism in Venezuela calibrated to serve American energy and ...

There is no organized opposition on the island because many critics of the regime have fled. But anti-government protests ...

The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional ...