Infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, has been captured by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison and return...

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A hand-washing station and bright yellow signs warning of an area of “high infection” now greet the steady stream of hearses at the entrance to the San Nicolas Tolentino cemetery...

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CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA (AP) — El juez guatemalteco Miguel Ángel Gálvez denunció ser víctima de amenazas que aumentaron desde que emitió un fallo que envió a juicio a nueve expolicías y exmilitares...

Twenty-four hours after polls closed in Venezuela's presidential election, the leader of the opposition announced that her coalition had gathered more than two-thirds of vote tally sheets from...

Fernando González, the head of Caribbean newsgathering for The Associated Press, has died in Havana. González died after falling suddenly ill late Sunday. He was 60.

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will arrive in Colombia on Thursday. Invited by Colombia's Vice President Francia Márquez, they will take part in several events, including a forum against cyberbul...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico topped 30,000 COVID-19 deaths Saturday, overtaking France as the country with the fifth-highest death toll since the coronavirus outbreak began.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Alfonso Cedeño died at a crowded hospital in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil, where the only bed doctors could offer was an ambulance stretcher.

At least 22 people have been injured, including two critically, when fans brawled during a soccer game in central Mexico.

LIMA, Perú (AP) — A los 75 años, uno de los periodistas más reconocidos de América Latina esperaba hilvanar en libros los hilos sueltos de más de cuatro décadas de periodismo de investigación que...

Well before the year began, Associated Press journalists knew that surging migration through the Americas was a major story.

Mexican journalists are protesting a day after one of their colleagues was killed in the southern state of Morelos.

Caesar salad has something to celebrate: It’s turning 100. According to legend, Italian immigrant Caesar Cardini invented the dish on July 4, 1924, at his restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico.

Outsider Bernardo Arévalo appeared to be the “virtual winner” of Sunday’s election to be Guatemala’s next president after voters became angry at widespread corruption and leaders’ failure to tackle...

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BOGOTÁ (AP) — El príncipe Enrique y Meghan, el duque y la duquesa de Sussex, iniciarán su primera visita a Colombia el jueves por invitación de la vicepresidenta Francia Márquez en la que darán...

CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA (AP) — El futuro de Guatemala está a solo dos días. Tras casi medio año de un camino sembrado de tropiezos judiciales, las expectativas de los guatemaltecos por la llegada a la...

Guatemalan officials have arrested a prominent newspaper editor who has overseen investigations into corruption.

A Guatemalan judge considered key in fighting corruption in the Central American country has resigned and announced that she has decided to leave the country.

CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA (AP) — El presidente electo de Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, llamó a los guatemaltecos a protestar para defender la democracia del país, en medio de la arremetida que mantiene la...

In the war between drug cartels in western Mexico, gangs have begun using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on roads to disable army vehicles.

Mexican state prosecutors say two journalists have been shot to death in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

Brazil’s Federal Police allege former President Jair Bolsonaro embezzled jewelry worth about $1.2 million during his time in office.

CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA (AP) — Recientemente, un juez de Guatemala —por petición del Ministerio Público— ha ordenado la detención de varios jueces y fiscales que en el pasado se han distinguido por su...

CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA (AP) — La fiscalía guatemalteca pidió el martes al Tribunal Supremo Electoral el nombre, la ubicación y el cargo de al menos 125.000 personas que participaron en el conteo de...

Mexico's president is asking why, if a woman criticizes him, he isn’t considered victim of gender violence.

Officials say the Biden administration has begun expelling Cubans and Nicaraguans to Mexico under pandemic-related powers that deny migrants a chance to seek asylum, expanding use of the rule even as...

Newsperson, Colombia

Guatemala's President-elect Bernardo Arévalo says he plans to call people into the streets next week to protest efforts to derail his presidency before he can take office.

Another journalist was shot to death in Mexico, the eighth murdered so far this year in an unprecedented spate of killings that has made Mexico the most dangerous place in the world for the press.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan hospitals say they have had to bury dozens of COVID-19 victims who have never been identified, and one hospital is creating archives in hopes that once the pandemic...

CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA (AP) — Bernardo Arévalo juró en los primeros minutos del lunes como presidente de Guatemala, en una jornada marcada por protestas ciudadanas ante el retraso del cambio de mando y...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Candidates to be Guatemala’s next president are taking a cue from the leader of neighboring El Salvador and promising their voters they will build mega-prisons and hammer...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A tortilla shop has started giving free wifi and television access for kids in its Mexico City neighborhood whose homes don’t have them, or whose brothers and sisters are already...

An internet watchdog says dozens of journalists and human rights defenders in El Salvador had their cellphones repeatedly hacked with sophisticated spyware over the past year and a half.

CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA (AP) — El gobierno estadounidense le otorgó el asilo político al exfiscal guatemalteco Juan Francisco Sandoval, reconocido a nivel nacional e internacional por su lucha contra la...

Academics in Mexico City are asking for donations to protect axolotls, an iconic fish-like type of salamander. The campaign asks people for as little as 600 pesos to virtually adopt one of the tiny...

LA HABANA (AP) — Docenas de cubanos protestaron el jueves por la noche en La Habana en demanda de la restauración del servicio eléctrico, después de más de dos días de un apagón que afectó a toda la...

La lucha por oficializar los resultados de la primera vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales de Guatemala sufre otro revés después de que la presidenta de la Corte Suprema de Justicia del país...

CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA (AP) — El Ministerio Público guatemalteco informó el jueves que detuvo por presunto abuso de autoridad al exfiscal Orlando Salvador López, quien llevó a juicio al exdictador José...

Mexico’s two main drug cartels have long taken their deadly rivalry with them as they expand into distant markets from Asia to Australia to Africa.

MEDELLÍN (AP) — Eros, de ocho años, trota por las calles de Medellín varias veces al día con una cesta de paja en su hocico, llevando verduras, frutas y comida empacada a los clientes del mercado El...

Mexico's hidden underground world is under threat by the Maya Train.

CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA (AP) — Miles de guatemaltecos protestaban el lunes frente a las sedes del Ministerio Público en distintas partes del país en reclamo de la renuncia de la fiscal general Consuelo...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — La decisión estaba tomada. Cuando Raymond García, médico cubano de 32 años, supo que su país se retiraba del programa “Más Médicos” de Brasil no lo dudó ni un segundo: “A Cuba...

Bernardo Arévalo has been sworn in as Guatemala’s president despite months of efforts to derail his inauguration, including foot-dragging and rising tensions right up until the transfer of power.

A Mexican official says six of the 43 college students “disappeared” in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed.