Latin America

The Mexican government says it will file criminal complaints in the United States over the deaths of more than a dozen of its citizens in US custody. Mexican Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco told journalists that the government would take “forceful legal action” to protect the human rights of Mexican citizens …

Monday’s nationwide outage was the third this year and comes on top of state-imposed rolling electricity cuts aimed at conserving the little remaining fuel. Some rural areas are plunged into darkness for up to 70 hours at a time, while urban areas have seen planned outages of up to 30 …

The most frequently mentioned word in Argentina right now is ‘bicampeonato’ (back-to-back World Cup championship). But the question everybody is thinking, and nobody wants to mention, is ‘what will we do when Messi retires’? Every new match the national team plays in the World Cup – such as the one …

For many supporters, Mexico’s role as one of the World Cup’s three host nations, combined with the team’s run to the knockout stages, created something larger than football: a rare opportunity to celebrate an identity that, for much of the previous year, had been associated with anxiety and uncertainty. Supporters …

Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has been declared the winner of Peru’s tight presidential election, nearly a month after the vote took place. The 51-year-old won 50.135% of voters’ support in the runoff, held on 7 June, to 49.865% for left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez – a margin of less than 50,000 …

More than 1,000 images of bodies flash across the screens in a sequence that feels endless. Many are swollen, have darkened skin or bear the marks of injuries, making identification difficult. Families search for any trace that might help identify their loved ones – a tattoo, a bracelet, a piece …

Rescue teams from seven countries are inching towards a man who survived the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela eight days ago. Emergency workers located security guard Hernán Gil on Saturday beneath the ruins of a multi-storey car park in Catia La Mar, but have only been able to make visual …

The family of flight passenger Daniel Alejandro Nunez, 28 – who’d also called his mother upon returning to Venezuela while still in state custody – was struggling to make sense of conflicting reports, too. “We’ve searched for him in hospitals, in morgues – everywhere,” his stepfather, Jose Alejandro Abache, told …

She said she and 31-year-old Ana Luz were extremely close and would talk every day on video calls. Her sister always had Kleiber by her side. “Wherever she went, her son went too. Whatever Kleiber wanted, she would please him. If she didn’t have money, she would call me: ‘Kleiber …

Mexico has secured its place in the last 16 of the World Cup after defeating Ecuador 2-0 at the Azteca Stadium on Tuesday. It was their first knockout stage victory since 1986. Fans in Mexico City took to the streets to celebrate, chanting ‘long live Mexico’, dancing and spraying foam …

The coastal town of Caraballeda in La Guaira is one of the hardest hit areas by the twin Venezuela earthquakes, where high-rise tower blocks have been reduced to a sea rubble. Scores of rescue workers, many of them family members, are still desperately searching for their loved ones among the …

On the day that two devastating earthquakes struck Venezuela, Andreina Valerio rushed back from work to look for her almost two-year-old son, Santiago. He was with Andreina’s partner, Ramsés Mendoza, at her in-laws’ home in La Guaira. When she got there, she found the building in ruins. Her brother-in-law Samuel …

A country club in the town of Caraballeda in Venezuela has been turned into a makeshift hospital, with survivors of the country’s devastating earthquakes receiving care and sleeping on mattresses on the grass. Helicopters carrying aid have landed at the improvised hospital and those who lost their homes during the …

The fallout from two deadly earthquakes in Venezuela on Wednesday continue to be felt across the country. Officials said the death toll has reached 1,430 with 3,238 injured. Rescue operations are still underway, though the window of time where it is still likely to find people alive is closing. The …

Rescuers in Venezuela are facing a battle against time as the window of opportunity to find people alive closes. Around 2,000 search and rescue officials have headed into Venezuela from countries across the world including the UK, Mexico, Costa Rica, France and Spain. But getting people to the right area …

One case that boosted morale across Venezuela is the rescue in La Guaira of three young siblings, who emerged from the rubble covered in dust and debris, footage broadcast on state television showed. “Come here, my child, come here,” a man says to the first child as he emerges alive …

Members of the Venezuelan diaspora gathered in Doral in Florida to collect aid to be sent to the country after it was hit by two earthquakes on Wednesday. Simón Peña donated drinking water as he continues to wait for news of missing loved ones. “I want to help as much …

The BBC’s Vanessa Silva was at the site of a collapsed building in Caracas, Venezuela, as rescuers searched the rubble for earthquake survivors. Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez declared a state of emergency after two major earthquakes shook the capital just seconds apart – the first a magnitude 7.2 and …

The two quakes have killed at least 32 people and injured around 700. BBC News

A strong earthquake struck Venezuela on Wednesday, near the capital Caracas, with witnesses reporting tremors in Colombia as well. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the area of Montalbán at a depth of 13.2km depth at 18:04 local time (23:04 BST), according to the US Geological Survey (USGC). People in Caracas …