Samantha Schmidt

Abrego García studied alongside gang members. But he showed “very good conduct,” according to his school.

Venezuela released Joseph St. Clair, a veteran arrested by local authorities last year. His family members said they believe he was held in the notorious Rodeo I prison.

El Salvador’s top independent investigative news outlet moved its headquarters to Costa Rica in 2023. More of its journalists left the country this month.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Milei celebrated Elon Musk’s embrace of his chainsaw, calling it “an emblem of the new golden era of humanity.”

Trump’s hard-line immigration policies have sparked a reverse migration wave, with migrants traveling south through Panama and Colombia.

Some of the hundreds of Colombians deported in the first weeks of Trump’s presidency said they had only seen the United States from the inside of detention centers.

The fighting between two armed drug trafficking groups — fueled and financed in part by a booming global cocaine business — has left former rebels vulnerable. 

The unusually deadly violence delivers a devastating blow to the “total peace” program of the country’s first leftist president, Gustavo Petro.

Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro began a third term as president on Friday, cementing his increasingly authoritarian rule.

Machado was released after a brief detention while leaving a protest in Caracas Thursday on the eve of President Nicolas Maduro’s inauguration.