More on the Americas
By Richard Fausset and Cecilia Sanchez, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — It was the kind of big-man boast that would have made Jay-Z or Bo Diddley proud: He owned 300 suits, he said. Four...
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
COALCOMAN, Mexico — Rafael Garcia slaps the oversize wooden desk where he sits, one of the last mayors still in office in this...
By Matt Pearce and Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times
Before Samuel Cifuentes walked out the door, his younger brother warned him about the storm bearing down on Oklahoma City.
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping nibbled on empanadas at the home of a Costa Rican coffee farmer. His wife played the steel...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — Drug policy and the need to substantially change the way countries tackle the problem took center stage at a major...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — Mexico hopes a three-day visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping will help the Latin American nation ramp up exports to...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
CANCUN, Mexico — When most people think of Cancun, they see soft white beaches and turquoise water glistening in the sun.
By Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times
MADERA, Calif. — While kids his age were reading Shakespeare and dissecting frogs, Benito Vasquez was picking grapes and almonds in...
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican capital has managed to avoid the kind of gangland violence that has gripped many other parts of the...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Cuba further distanced itself from terrorist activities last year but the U.S. government still considers it a state...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — Responding to anguished families and mothers on a hunger strike, the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto...
By Ken Bensinger, Los Angeles Times
Collection agencies profit by buying up old debt, chasing borrowers for payment and, when all else fails, using the courts to recover as...
By Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times
BOGOTA, Colombia — In a milestone first step in efforts to end Latin America's longest-running insurgency, Colombia's largest rebel...
By Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times
SAN DIEGO — Eduardo Arellano Felix, the last of four brothers targeted by U.S. authorities for running the notorious Arellano Felix...
By Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — A Mexican drug cartel commander pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and attempted murder in a 2011 ambush south of the...
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — The Guatemalan high court's decision to annul the genocide conviction of former military dictator Efrain Rios Montt on...
By Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times
BOGOTA, Colombia — Leftist rebel Reinel Usuga surrendered this month because he was afraid of dying in battle and being buried in an...
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
TONATICO, Mexico — Armando Guadarrama was navigating his taxi through the narrow streets of this central Mexico pueblo on a recent...
By Andres D'Alessandro and Chris Kraul, Special to the Los Angeles Times
BUENOS AIRES — Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who presided over that country's so-called dirty war in which up to 30,...
By Vincent Bevins, Los Angeles Times
By Richard Fausset and Cecilia Sanchez, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — Responding to mounting concern about disorder in the Mexican state of Michoacan, officials announced Thursday that an...
By Chris Kraul and Mery Mogollon, Los Angeles Times
CARACAS, Venezuela — The sale of Globovision, Venezuela's last major television station critical of the government, raised concern...
By Richard Fausset and Cecilia Sanchez, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY— Mexico's giant Popocatepetl volcano may generate lava flows, explosions of "growing intensity" and ash that could reach...
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — Efrain Rios Montt, the former Guatemalan military dictator who ruled his country during one of the bloodiest phases of...
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Guadalajara police commander Juan Carlos Martinez took Mexico's national police vetting exam in April 2012. He...
By Kathleen Hennessey and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — President Obama capped a three-day visit to Latin America on Saturday by urging the region's leaders to fight...
By Kathleen Hennessey and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — President Obama on Friday painted a sunny picture of a modern Mexico emerging from its past troubles, an attempt at...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — When Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development from his impoverished...
By Kathleen Hennessey and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — Against the backdrop of a deadly drug war and shifting security cooperation, President Obama joined his Mexican...
By Kathleen Hennessey and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama will seek to cement relations with Mexico's new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, over the next two...
By Vincent Bevins, Los Angeles Times
RIO DE JANEIRO — After 2 1/2 years of renovations, Rio's legendary Maracana soccer stadium reopened to much fanfare in late April....
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — On the eve of President Obama's trip to Mexico, Mexican authorities on Tuesday announced the capture of a key drug...
By Shashank Bengali and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama travels to Mexico this week amid signs that the relationship between the United States and its southern...
By Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times
It's called the Trinity Site, an expanse of baked-white land in the middle of the Chihuahuan Desert — the spot where "the gadget"...
By Chris Kraul and Mery Mogollon, Los Angeles Times
CARACAS, Venezuela —Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the charismatic socialist whose Bolivarian Revolution reduced poverty and...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — You might be hard-pressed to find the word "Mexico" in some of the advertising for tourist resorts in Mexico.
By Vincent Bevins, Los Angeles Times
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Between the high-rises in the dark center of this megacity, a swarm of people covers an entire block. They are...
By Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times
CUATRO MILPAS, MEXICO— In this hardscrabble farming village, an American teenager like Luis Martinez was bound to stand out.
By Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times
A U.S. pilot program designed to deport illegal immigrants by flying them to Mexico City will operate for only two months this year and...
Times wire services
Cuban activist Oswaldo Paya, who spent decades speaking out against the communist government of Fidel and Raul Castro and became one of...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
CULIACAN, Mexico — For generations, the extended Hernandez family tended fields of marijuana high in Sinaloa's western Sierra Madre...
By Chris Kraul
BOGOTA, Colombia -- A little wild pig named Josefo, abandoned by his mother, helped keep Sgt. Jose Libardo Forero sane.
By Reed Johnson and Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times
If Carlos Fuentes could have invented the perfect character to star in one of his novels, he might have come up with a protagonist named...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — Tomas Borge, last living founder of Nicaragua's Sandinista movement and one of its most hard-line enforcers as it...
By Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY —Former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid, who led the country amid economic meltdown and natural disaster in the...
By Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times
Ricardo Legorreta, the architect who introduced Mexican modernism to a global audience and who brought his crisp, brightly colored aesthetic...
By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau
High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF's Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the...
By Richard Marosi and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Last of four parts
By Ken Ellingwood, Richard A. Serrano and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Last fall's slaying of Mario Gonzalez, the brother of a Mexican state prosecutor, shocked people on both sides of the border. Sensational...
By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau
The claim by senior ATF officials that none of the weapons lost in the botched Fast and Furious sting operation were used in the shooting of...
By Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times
Gilbert "Magú" Luján — a painter, muralist and sculptor whose whimsical, slyly humorous art works, frequently evoking a...
By Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times
Two days after U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry was killed in December, the top ATF supervisors in Phoenix said in internal emails...
By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau
Congressional investigators probing the controversial "Fast and Furious" anti-gun-trafficking operation on the border with Mexico believe at...
By Alex Renderos and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Reporting from San Salvador and Mexico City -- Argentine songwriter and singer Facundo Cabral, an icon of Latin American folk and protest...
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