Americas

Fentanyl is lightweight, discreet and easy to produce and transport.

The saga of alleged “alien” bodies has taken another turn, with the journalist behind the discovery now under investigation.

Sinaloa Cartel leader was arrested by Mexican security forces in January

The region is a good spot to nurture spies

Now it’s closing the border entirely.

Brazil's Supreme Court opened the first trials Wednesday over the January 8 riots by supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, putting four accused in the dock in one of the buildings invaded that day.

The Brazilian leader says the Russian president will not be detained under his watch

Mexico's ruling party on Wednesday named former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as its candidate for the 2024 presidential election, ensuring that for the first time the two main rivals to lead the Latin American power will be women.

Guatemala's president-elect Bernardo Arevalo on Friday denounced an "ongoing coup" by the country's institutions to block him from taking power, after his political party was suspended.

Evangelical leader Marcorel Zidor led ‘hundreds’ of armed protesters into a gang-controlled area of the capital Port-au-Prince.

A gang in Haiti has shot and killed at least seven people who were marching in a big protest organised by a church leader.

Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, is the target of multiple criminal investigations. One includes a watch, gifted by the Saudis, sold in a Pennsylvania mall.

The cleanup has begun in Mexico after Tropical Storm Hilary caused strong winds and flash flooding. Further north, millions of Californians are bracing for unprecedented wild weather.

Leftist frontrunner Luisa Gonzalez looked set to take on a surprise candidate, the youthful son of one of Ecuador’s richest men, in a run-off election in October, official results showed Sunday.

Heavy rain and flooding are probably starting this weekend despite expected weakening of the storm. It could become the first tropical system to make a California landfall in 84 years.

A hurricane packing 130mph (215km/h) winds is churning towards Mexico and the south-western US.

The first names of people killed by wildfires in Maui have been released by officials, one week after at least 106 people were killed on the island.

Crammed into cars, on motorcycles or on foot, thousands of residents on Tuesday fled a gang-ridden district of the Haitian capital, an AFP reporter observed.