White elephant in the room: Colombia swears in costumed anti-corruption activist as senator

Luis Carlos Rúa revealed himself to be Elefante blanco just three days before election for ‘his own safety’. Now he is tackling graft from senate floor

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Javier Milei accuses US Democrats of financing ‘anti-Argentina campaign’ at World Cup

President also blames Brazil and Mexico and says online critics ‘do not want the ideas of freedom to succeed’

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How English-speaking Colombian islands have been caught up in Trump’s ‘drug war’ airstrikes

At least 16 fishers from San Andrés and Providence said to have gone missing since January after US began attacking boats in Caribbean and eastern Pacific

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‘Proxy for Trump’ Milei tours Latin America to meet far-right leaders

Tour comes amid Argentinian president’s declining popularity and far-right victories across Latin America

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Nicaragua’s congress announces ‘work plan’ to suspend elections

US secretary of state says international community should ‘join forces’ against authoritarian Ortega regime

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Nicaragua’s president says country will not hold any more elections

Daniel Ortega, the 80-year-old authoritarian leader, says move will ‘build a wall’ against the opposition

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‘Rifts began to appear’: Why many Latin Americans want Spain to beat Argentina in the World Cup final

A history of racism and ongoing footballing rivalries have made the choice of which team to get behind in Sunday’s final a charged topic

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Brazil vows to retaliate if US imposes 25% tariffs on some of its products

President Lula’s office says move is result of pressure by family of far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro

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Venezuela’s interim government and opposition to begin formal talks

Nobel laureate María Corina Machado will not lead negotiations over new elections, contrary to expectations

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Colombia’s leftwing candidate concedes election to Trump-endorsed millionaire

Leftist Iván Cepeda conceded to far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella who won by razor-thin margin

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‘Institutional threat’: election of far-right leader raises fears for democracy in Colombia

Trump-admiring Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to ‘disembowel’ the left and kill criminals like ‘rats and cockroaches’

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Far-right millionaire Abelardo de la Espriella wins Colombia’s presidential runoff

Leftwing opponent alleges vote count irregularities after Trump-endorsed lawyer secures narrow majority

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Colombia’s runoff election expected to trigger shift in decades-long armed conflict

Frontrunner Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to return to full-scale military confrontation with armed groups

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Ghost of far-right paramilitaries hovers over Colombia’s presidential runoff vote

Colombians will choose on Sunday between two men whose lives have been very differently shaped by the militias, and whose visions for the country are poles apart

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Brazilians paint streets to celebrate World Cup after deadly police raid: ‘Why not transform this place?’

Artist and former footballer Luan Medeiros organised painting to bring joy to square after 122 people were killed in last October’s police operation

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Brazilian woman, 38, accused of years of ‘elaborate fraud’ by posing as a child

Amanda Maria Souza de Oliveira faces fraud charges after allegedly persuading family to take her into their home

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Alleged mastermind in murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira to stand trial

Brazilian judge rules there is enough evidence to try Ruben Dario da Silva Villar over killings of journalist and activist

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Colombian far-right candidate is latest Trumpian figure in Latin America to ride anti-incumbent wave

Abelardo de la Espriella, promising an iron-fist approach to crime, leads polls in country’s presidential runoff election

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Trump admirer’s surprise first-round win is a blow to Colombia’s traditional conservatives

Success of far-right presidential candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella, suggests some voters are ‘fed up with politics’

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Colombia’s far-right presidential candidate Espriella wins first round of vote ahead of runoff

Lawyer and Trump admirer has risen rapidly in the polls and will face Iván Cepeda in election runoff in three weeks

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The Mothers of May’s 20-year struggle for justice after Brazil police rampage

In 2006 police took revenge for deadly prison riots by killing more than 500 people in alleged shootouts that others call executions. A court is to rule on compensation for victims

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Colombia prepares to go to polls in election shadowed by resurgence of political violence

Sunday’s presidential vote is contest between left and right – and between contradictory proposals for dealing with the decades-long armed conflict

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US designates Brazil’s two largest gangs as terrorist organizations

Announcement by Marco Rubio is being widely seen as setback for Brazil’s president, and a boost for his far-right challenger

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Argentina’s ‘European’ self-image under renewed scrutiny after racist incidents in Brazil

Case involving seven-year-old boy is latest flashpoint in debate over race relations in Latin America

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‘Argentina needs to end its fantasy of being a European country’: Lucrecia Martel on the story of a killing

The film-maker talks about her homeland’s ‘racism, paternalism and infantilisation’ towards Indigenous people and her award-winning documentary about a community leader’s murder

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The mural project honouring the Black cultural heritage of Rio de Janeiro – photo essay

Despite its majority Afro-descendant population, fewer than 10% of public monuments across Rio commemorate Black people. Photographer María Magdalena Arréllaga chronicles the project seeking to redres...

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Bolivia rocked by protests as US warns of ‘coup d’état’

Clashes between demonstrators and police in La Paz have entered second week, shaking centre-right president

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13 men killed by US military boat strikes identified: ‘These were flesh-and-blood people’

All victims of US strikes in eastern Pacific and the Caribbean identified so far came from extremely poor communities

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Tape shows Bolsonaro son asking jailed banker for $26.8m to fund film on father

Flávio Bolsonaro, Brazil’s leading rightwing presidential hopeful, caught on tape asking banker for millions

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Brazil’s Atlantic forest records lowest deforestation in 40 years

Environmentalists hail decline but warn weakened laws could reverse gains

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