This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from ...

The US-based Rockefeller Foundation has announced Lyana Latorre as its new vice president and head of Latin America and the ...

Google the most violent region of the world and Latin America will come up. Violence in the region takes many forms and ...

Many people in Latin America and the Caribbean live in poverty. Wealth often stays with a few powerful families. Big ...

In many parts of the region, big companies take over lands for mining or farming. This forces farmers and indigenous people ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro says he will declare an emergency over the guerrilla attacks in the northeast that have ...

So as Mr. Trump was inaugurated in Washington on Monday, the typical congratulatory messages were also accompanied by some from Latin American leaders that deviated sharply from the usual ...

Colombia's president says ELN rebels will 'get war' as violence in the country's northeast escalates - Colombian president ...

The governor of the Colombian department of Norte de Santander, William Villamizar, declared “a social and economic emergency ...

son of Hispanic parents, as his next secretary of State, a milestone in U.S. history. Latin America is gaining greater relevance on the agenda of the most powerful nation in the world. With a ...

Juan Cruz Díaz, Brian Winter, and Carin Zissis discuss the region's place in Trump's inauguration and first executive orders.

Rubio will depart on his first foreign trip to visit countries in Central America that may be vital for carrying out the Trump administration's mass deportation plans.