Latin America

The Navy SEALs visit comes at the invitation of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has publicly emphasized her goal of better preparing Mexican military and law enforcement personnel to combat drug cartel violence.

Rep. Nydia Velázquez is reintroducing a resolution in the House of Representatives calling on the State Department to formally move beyond the Monroe Doctrine, arguing that current U.S. policy toward Latin America reflects a renewed interventionist approach.

The former Mexican president has for years denied receiving money either from drug cartels or from Venezuela to fund his 2006 campaign.

According to testimony from Damaris Osorio, cousin of Pablo Osorio Sánchez, a 26-year-old civil engineer, he was at a bus stop along the Durango-Mazatlán highway waiting for transportation to the Concordia area when he was kidnapped.

So far, Dominican authorities have reported the arrest of a Haitian man identified as Chin Laduse, who is allegedly connected to the killings.

Deputies Elizabeth Montoya and Sergio Torres were traveling in a vehicle accompanied by two bodyguards on Jan. 28 when they were attacked by a group of armed civilians.

As reported by the Miami Herald, the three-phase plan originally laid out by the Trump administration calls for stabilization, economic recovery and an eventual transition to democratic rule.

A Venezuelan woman living in Florida came up with the idea of sending Nicolás Maduro a letter containing messages from other Venezuelans, criticizing him for the harm his regime caused in their lives.

The deployment comes just days after two local lawmakers from the Movimiento Ciudadano party were injured Jan. 28 in an armed attack in Culiacán. The shooting left three people wounded.

The COVID-19 pandemic, combined with ongoing U.S. threats and sanctions, has stalled tourism in the Caribbean nation.

The increasing influence of drug cartels in Mexico made 2025 a very violent year, according to a recent investigation by a civil society organization that documented thousands of cases involving crimes of extreme violence across the country.

Henrique Capriles, a politician and lawyer who served as governor of Venezuela's Miranda state from 2008 to 2017 and ran against Maduro in the 2013 presidential election.

Haitian armed forces are reportedly shifting tactics in an effort to gradually change the dynamics of violence that have long defined the Caribbean nation. And it seems to be working.

Also known as the "Remain in Mexico" program, it was launched by the Trump administration in 2019 and terminated by former President Joe Biden in 2021.

Relatives of two Trinidadian men killed in an October airstrike against an alleged drug vessel are suing the U.S. government for wrongful death.

Public opinion across much of Latin America has shifted toward greater acceptance of U.S. military intervention following the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, according to multiple polls.

Rep. Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida and chair of the committee, went on the record saying he could not see how there could be anyone else "with a greater vision" for Venezuela than Machado.

Intelligence reports indicate the group is building small networks in tourist and urban areas to avoid detection, with criminal activities that include street-level drug sales, human trafficking for sexual exploitation and acts of torture.

As reported by El País, Alberto Trentini and Mario Burlò were the Italian nationals who returned to Rome on Jan. 13 after spending more than a year imprisoned in Venezuela.

Marcela Figueroa Franco, head of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, said intentional homicides have followed a downward trend for the past 14 months.

According to the Miami Herald, MSF has been forced to suspend operations at its clinics several times over the past two years, with some facilities closing permanently as violence continues to escalate.

Carlos Manzo, the mayor of Uruapan in the western Mexican state of Michoacán, was fatally shot on Nov. 1 in an attack authorities say is linked to the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). The country's top security official says the investigation into the killing is making progress.

Honduran opposition lawmaker Gladys Aurora López was injured in an explosive attack on Jan. 8, collapsing to the floor before being taken to a local hospital in Tegucigalpa.

Cuba announced that 32 of its citizens were killed during the operation while carrying out missions on behalf of the Cuban Armed Forces and the Interior Ministry.

Mexico's Navy Secretariat confirmed an additional death linked to the derailment of the Interoceanic Train that occurred Dec. 28.

During a news conference on Dec. 30, Sheinbaum said those affected will receive full compensation for damages, in addition to the initial support announced a day earlier of 30,000 pesos, about $1,700.

In a video circulating on social media, one passenger said the train appeared to be traveling at a high speed before the crash. "We felt the train was going very fast. We don't know if it lost its brakes," the passenger said.

As of Dec. 15, Foro Penal had recorded 902 political prisoners in Venezuela, noting that since 2014 the organization has documented 18,612 people arrested by Maduro's government on similar grounds.

A new report, based on testimony from government intelligence officials, states that Mexican authorities only became aware of Tren de Aragua's operations last year, after clashes between the gang and rival groups in Mexico City.

El Salvador's Attorney General's Office did not clarify whether the convicted gang members were captured under the state of exception in place since March 2022 against violent gangs, or if they were already in prison before the measure.