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Sergio Mendes, the Grammy-winning Brazilian musician whose 1966 hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global superstar, has died after months battling the effects of long COVID. He was 83.
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The worldwide left has long been prone to apologize for Latin America's authoritarian leftist regimes — but a younger generation's response to socialist Venezuela's electoral fraud is challenging that impulse.
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With the nation’s democracy in shambles, President Nicolás Maduro tries to inject some holiday cheer.
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COMMENTARY Amid this election, we have to figure out how to keep toxic disinformation like X's from undermining U.S. democracy — while remembering that protecting the rights of even Musk muck is what underpins U.S. democracy.
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An incriminating admission by the brother-in-law of Honduras’ president just days after the Central American nation announced it would end its longstanding extradition treaty with the United States is feeding fears among Hondurans that the country’s legacy of corruption is continuing.
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The lower house of Mexico’s Congress has approved contentious legislation that would launch the most sweeping judicial overhaul of the century by requiring all judges to stand for election.
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A Venezuelan judge has issued an arrest warrant for the opposition’s former presidential candidate Edmundo González as part of a criminal investigation into the results of the disputed July election.
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New restrictions on private enterprise in Cuba will “severely hinder” the growth of the sector — and could worsen a shortage in key items like chicken on the island, an expert told WLRN.
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The blocking of social media platform X — formerly Twitter — in Brazil has divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians had difficulty and doubts about navigating other social media in its absence. Brazil is one of the biggest markets for X.
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Skateboarding women of Bolivia wear Indigenous garb to pay homage to the strength of their mothers and grandmothers. Their motto: When you fall, you have the power to get back up.
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The Biden administration is restarting an immigration program that allows migrants from 4 countries to come to the United States. The administration said Thursday that it's now including “additional vetting” of their U.S.-based financial sponsors following fraud concerns.
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COMMENTARY Donald Trump undoubtedly sees in the U.S. Supreme Court's new, reckless notion of presidential immunity the same carte blanche Venezuela's high court just handed dictator Nicolás Maduro.