Trump wants to repeat the Venezuela playbook on the Caribbean island

The drugs kingpin’s removal leaves a power vacuum that could flare up as the country prepares to co-host the World Cup

A notorious drug lord is gone. But the battle to succeed him now follows

Analysts dismiss as ‘nothing burger’ any expectation of near-term profits

Leaders across the region have responded to the US attack on Venezuela and abduction of its president with both praise and condemnation

The island nation insists it is only interested in fighting drug trafficking, not regime change in neighbouring Venezuela, as the US military is given access to its airports

As the world’s largest aircraft carrier enters the Caribbean, Nicolás Maduro and leaders across the region wonder what Trump’s end game might be

Long seen as the paradigm of a green economy, the country’s environmental defences are under attack

Nicaraguan exiles fear the long hand of Ortega after dissidents of the dictator’s brutal regime were killed in Costa Rica

Twenty years after the American embassy shut its doors, Sunday’s presidential election could see a thaw in relations

Government-sponsored TV talent show proves far too wholesome to make a dent in the country’s love of narcocorridos crime ballads

Millions of migrants passing through Mexico have risked their lives riding north on the cargo trains known as La Bestia. That number has dropped since Trump returned to office, but few believe US-bound migration is gone for good

One of Latin America’s most successful leftwing governments faces huge swing to right in today’s presidential election