Mexican president prays with family of dead US dual citizens
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador prayed for the safety of the country with the relatives of nine U.S. dual citizens slaught...
Northern Mexico fears return to dark past after gunfights
VILLA UNION, Mexico — Mexico’s president says he wants to fight drug cartels with “hugs, not bullets,” but after 23 people were killed in a weekend gu...
Mexican border town gripped by fear after gunbattle kills 22
VILLA UNION, Mexico — A small town near the U.S.-Mexico border began cleaning up Monday, gripped by fear after the killing of 22 people in a ferocious...
Death toll put at 20 for Mexico cartel attack near US border
MEXICO CITY — Mexican security forces on Sunday killed seven more members of a presumed cartel assault force that rolled into a town near the Texas bo...
Irving Burgie, songwriter of calypso hit ‘Day-O,’ dies at 95
NEW YORK — Composer Irving Burgie, who helped popularize Caribbean music and co-wrote the enduring Harry Belafonte hit “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song),”...
AP Explains: Mexico president raises hopes, ruffles feathers
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office one year ago, vowing to transform Mexico. He has focused on austerity and figh...
Peru’s Keiko Fujimori leaves prison after top court ruling
LIMA, Peru — Supporters cheered late Friday as once-powerful opposition leader and two-time Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori left the pr...
Brazil’s president criticizes DiCaprio over Amazon fires
RIO DE JANEIRO — Without offering proof, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday said actor Leonardo DiCaprio had funded nonprofit groups that he...
AP Explains: What awaits Suriname’s convicted president?
PARAMARIBO, Suriname — A court in the South American country of Suriname has convicted President Desi Bouterse in the 1982 killings of 15 prominent po...
Report: US lacked technology to track separated families
PHOENIX — The U.S. government separated thousands of families despite knowing it lacked the technology to document and track their whereabouts, accord...
Correction: Reckoning-Where Are They Now story
In a story sent Oct. 4 and 5 about clergy members that the Roman Catholic Church considers credibly accused of child sexual abuse living with little t...
Central American offered asylum in Guatemala opts for home
COLON, Honduras — The first Central American asylum seeker sent to Guatemala under that country’s “safe third country” agreement with the U.S. has opt...
Uruguay’s leftist government at risk in election
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — A 15-year string of center-left governments was on the line Sunday as Uruguay’s Broad Front coalition faced a presidential runof...
Argentine bishop says he’ll return to face sex allegations
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An Argentine bishop close to Pope Francis said Saturday he’ll return voluntarily to Argentina to respond to prosecutors’ acc...
Feds fight back as Epstein death conspiracy theories swirl
NEW YORK — At another time in history, the indictment of two jail guards responsible for monitoring Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself might ...
Cuba fashion show is small step for private enterprise
HAVANA — Thousands of young Cubans packed a Havana arena to witness a small step forward in the tumultuous relationship between one of the world’s las...
Brazil ex-president, out of jail, vows to make ‘lives hell’
SAO PAULO — A fired-up former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, freshly out of jail, vowed to fight Brazil’s far-right government and the forces he...
Evo Morales’ backers leaving barricades after Bolivia deal
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Supporters of ousted President Evo Morales began abandoning barricades set up on roads leading into Bolivia’s main cities after an a...
The Latest: Colombia president opens ‘national conversation’
BOGOTA, Colombia — The Latest on protests in Colombia (all times local):
Colombia president orders curfew in capital following unrest
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Iván Duque ordered a curfew in the nation’s capital Friday amid continuing unrest following a massive march a d...
With da Silva free, Brazil’s Workers’ Party seeks strategy
SAO PAULO — As Brazil’s largest leftist party gathers to plan the future, a figure that has dominated its past looms ever larger.
Colombians fill streets hoping to channel wave of discontent
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombians angry with conservative President Iván Duque and hoping to channel Latin America’s wave of discontent took the streets b...
Bacteria-infected mosquitoes take bite out of deadly dengue
WASHINGTON — They still bite, but new research shows lab-grown mosquitoes are fighting dangerous dengue fever that they normally would spread.
AP Explains: How have the protests in Chile evolved?
SANTIAGO, Chile — It’s been nearly five weeks since the most potent civil unrest in Chile’s recent history broke out, bringing mass protests across th...
Brazil police say cop to blame for 8-year-old girl’s death
RIO DE JANEIRO — A police officer fired the shot that killed an 8-year-old girl in Rio de Janeiro this year, authorities said Tuesday, a finding that ...
Border activist says he’d never hide migrants from US agents
TUCSON, Ariz. — An Arizona border activist testified Tuesday that neutrality guides his humanitarian work with migrants in the desert, denying that he...
Haiti mourns 5 people killed during ongoing protests
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Wails have filled a church in Haiti during funeral services for five people killed in anti-government protests.
Brazil says Amazon deforestation is worst since 2008
RIO DE JANEIRO — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is at its worst in more than a decade, a government report said Monday, undermining offic...
Migrants stuck in lawless limbo within sight of America
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — The gangsters trawling Nuevo Laredo know just what they’re looking for: men and women missing their shoelaces.
Bolivia’s crisis exposes old racial, geographic divides
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia’s increasingly violent political crisis is exposing historical racial, ethnic and geographic divides that many thought had b...