Mexico

Mexico busts Jalisco cartel kingpin

Mexican security forces announced the arrest of a top leader of the New Generation drug cartel, based in the western state of Jalisco, and linked to the Michoacán violence.

The Caribbean

Cuba: will the US normalize relations?

The majority of people in the US support normalizing relations with Cuba; support is even stronger in Florida. So why won't Obama do it?

Southern Cone

Brazil: police repress landless protest

After more than a decade of a center-left government, Brazil's landless campesinos say their demands for agrarian reform are still not being met.

The Andes

Chile-Peru border dispute: back on

Days after The Hague issued a ruling on their maritime border dispute, Peru and Chile are bitterly at odds over a patch of desert on their land boundary.