Latin America

Flávio Bolsonaro, the defeated right-wing presidential candidate for Brazil, has landed in Miami, Florida. He was joined by his wife and two daughters. It comes after Bolsonaro failed to comply with the Brazil Supreme Court order to surrender his passports due to an ongoing investigation into alleged money laundering. On …

Flávio Bolsonaro landed near Miami with his family after his defeat in Brazil’s presidential election. The US state department has told the BBC it would issue visas to Bolsonaro and his family. Before he left Brazil, the country’s Supreme Court ordered him to surrender his passports as part of a …

Police in Brazil say they have cancelled the passports of the defeated right-wing presidential candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro, after he failed to comply with an order to surrender the documents. On Monday, the Supreme Court ordered Bolsonaro to hand his passports over to police within 24 hours as part of an …

In this closely fought midterm election campaign, the small town of Springfield, Ohio has become a symbol of modern America. For President Donald Trump, Springfield crystallises America’s problems due to years of unchecked immigration. To others, the city represents a well known cycle – the decline of traditional industry followed …

So why might Trump be unhappy with the result? Latin America has swung to the right, with Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Peru all electing presidents closely aligned with the Trump administration. Trump has sought to use these allies to establish US dominance in the Western Hemisphere, a strategy he …

Lula’s campaign sprang back to life following his first-round defeat driven by street demonstrations and a massive social media push. The former metalworker, who has been the dominant figure on Brazil’s left since he first ran for president in 1989, nevertheless faces the most challenging political landscape since first taking …

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned home to a fraught political landscape after over 10 months in exile. “I am here. With you,” Machado wrote on X on Sunday. Her ally, former presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, confirmed the news minutes later, writing: “I am thrilled to announce …

Brazilians will head to the polls on Sunday to vote for their next president. They are choosing between Brazil’s current left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro, the son of imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, beat Lula in the first round of voting …

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s campaign has requested the disqualification of right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro in the lead up to the final round of the presidential election on Sunday over alleged interference by social media company Meta. In a petition filed to the country’s top electoral court on …

Federal prosecutors in Mexico have charged a former state prosecutor with treason for allowing US agents to join a raid on a suspected drugs lab in April without proper authorisation. César Jáuregui Moreno served as attorney general of the northern border state of Chihuahua from 2023 to this year. The …

A man has been stopped at Cologne Bonn Airport in Germany after trying to smuggle in more than 90 lizards and venomous snakes. Customs officials said the 45-year-old Mexican firefighter had looked “conspicuously nervous” as he tried to go through the green – nothing to declare – exit at the …

Brazil’s Congress has approved a constitutional amendment that will cut the working week from 44 hours to 40 and give employees two days off per week without cutting their salary. The change represents the biggest overhaul to workers’ rights since Brazil’s return to democracy in 1988. Senators passed the amendment, …

A Mexican gang seized three officials in the central state of Morelos on Monday in order to force authorities to release one of the gang’s high-ranking members, who had been detained hours earlier. The attorney-general’s office in Morelos said it had arrested a member of the Pueblos Unidos criminal gang, …

A Colombian man wanted for allegedly laundering money that had been illegally syphoned off a Venezuelan government welfare plan has been detained in the United States. The US Department of Justice said Álvaro Pulido, 62, had been arrested during a Homeland Security Task Force operation on Sunday, but did not …

She said: “Many of the people that we approached to film have had brilliant careers. These are people that I’ve looked up to. “The thing that connected us a lot was the household – the Caribbean front room that you couldn’t go into. “There are items that we all shared …

Prosecutors in the United States have accused Venezuela’s former leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, of conspiracy to commit torture. The fresh charges against the couple were made public on Thursday and are in addition to the drug-trafficking and weapons charges already brought against them, which they have …

Nylva said while work was beginning to take place in Colombia, it had been slow to start. She said the family’s appeal had been taken up by a man living in the country, who had become a “rock” and a “godsend” to them. According to Nylva, the man contacted the …

Police in central Chile have airlifted several residents to safety after rising floodwaters left them trapped in their homes. Recent torrential rains caused the Mapocho river to burst its banks, flooding large parts of the city of Talagante, 35km (22 miles) south-west of the capital, Santiago. Santiago has seen 74mm …

Flávio Bolsonaro’s success in Brazil’s presidential election is being hailed as the result of a “blue wave” – the latest example of a resurgence of right-wing support sweeping Latin America. But despite missing an outright majority – meaning there will be a second round later this month – the unexpectedly …

Up until a few months ago, Brazilians told pollsters that crime and security were their main concerns. But in the weeks leading up to the election, a scandal involving a jailed banker accused of orchestrating one of Brazil’s largest financial fraud cases has pushed corruption to the top of the …