Latin America

Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Daniel Garzon Herazo/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Miguel Uribe has died of injuries he sustained during a shooting on 7 June Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe has died two months after being shot in the head in a targeted attack which shocked the South American …

A shooting at a nightclub in Ecuador killed eight people and injured three others, police have said. Authorities were called to the Santa Lucía property in the early hours of Sunday morning, where they found seven people already deceased after gunmen opened fire. An eighth person died in hospital. Police …

Jennifer Meierhans Business reporter Getty Images US fashion designer Willy Chavarria at The Mark Hotel before the 2025 Met Gala US fashion designer Willy Chavarria has apologised after a shoe he created in collaboration with Adidas Originals was criticised for “cultural appropriation”. The Oaxaca Slip-On was inspired by traditional leather …

Alejandro Millán Valencia BBC News Mundo BBC Residents of Pampa Clemesí, in southern Peru, rely on flashlights to make their way through the darkness Each morning, Rosa Chamami wakes to flames licking at cardboard scraps in a makeshift stove in her yard. The boxes she brought home once held 800,000 …

Mexico has said US military would not be entering its territory following reports that President Donald Trump had directed the Pentagon to target Latin American drug cartels. “The United States is not going to come to Mexico with the military,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday. “We co-operate, we collaborate, …

Camilla Veras Mota BBC News Brasil Reporting fromMaceió, Alagoas state BBC Rute Freires lives with her daughter Tamara, who has congenital Zika syndrome When Rute Freires was told by a doctor that her newborn daughter Tamara wouldn’t live long, she started crying uncontrollably. Tamara had microcephaly – an abnormally small …

A new law in Brazil could cause “significant environmental harm and human rights violations”, and represents a “rollback for decades” of protections in Brazil, including for the Amazon, a UN expert has told BBC News. Plans to speed up approvals for development projects were criticised by Astrid Puentes Riaño, a …

An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck during a live TV broadcast in Chile’s northern city of Copiapó. Chilean politician and presidential candidate, Carolina Toha, was speaking about her campaign proposals with two journalists when the studio began shaking. The interview was cut short as all three quickly left the studio …

Protests against immigration raids have continued in Los Angeles, California on Tuesday, with similar demonstrations happening in other major US cities. US President Donald Trump says the protests are an “assault on peace and public order”. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says the way to dismantle protests is to end …

Cameras have captured the moment an 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook Lima, Peru on Sunday morning, causing panic among worshipers at the city’s cathedral. The epicentre was recorded 23km off the coast of Callao, according to the The ​​United States Geological Survey. It was felt in the capital and surrounding regions, …

Hurricane Erick came ashore as a Category 3 storm Thursday morning hitting Mexico’s Pacific coast between the resort towns of Acapulco and Puerto Escondido. The BBC’s partner, CBS News, reported that officials confirmed at least two deaths as a result of the storm. Video shows communities in the affected areas …

He has 1,378 senior appearances to his name, made his debut in 1997 and is the oldest player at the Club World Cup. Fluminense’s Brazilian goalkeeper Fabio Deivson Lopes Maciel has already had some career – and shows no signs of slowing down. The 44-year-old starred in Monday’s 2-0 win …

Caio Quero BBC Brasil editor Getty Images US President Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, his former counterpart in Brazil, have a closer relationship A message from US President Donald Trump on Wednesday landed like a grenade in Brazil, bringing the relationship between the two countries to an all-time low. Trump …

Álvaro Uribe has become the first former Colombian president to be convicted of a crime. A court in Bogotá found the 73-year-old, who was president from 2002 to 2010, guilty of witness-tampering and a fraud charge. He was convicted of attempting to bribe witnesses in a separate investigation into allegations …

After a reader wondered if 2.1 million people could really have seen Lady Gaga at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach in May, BBC Verify looked into it. The Lady Gaga concert was paid for by the seaside city in an attempt to revitalise its economy. Fans reportedly travelled from all …

Will Grant Mexico, Central America and Cuba Correspondent BBC Water levels in Lake Toronto, a reservoir in the north of Mexico, are said to be critically low After the thirtieth consecutive month without rain, the townsfolk of San Francisco de Conchos in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua gather to …

The US has started building a new ‘secondary’ wall at its southwestern border with Mexico to reinforce an existing steel fence that divides the two countries. The approximately 7 mile (11km) wall is being constructed in the state of New Mexico and is part of a plan to close ‘critical’ …

BBC Raquel Celina Rodriguez watches her step as she walks across the Vega de Tilopozo in Chile’s Atacama salt flats. It’s a wetland, known for its groundwater springs, but the plain is now dry and cracked with holes she explains were once pools. “Before, the Vega was all green,” she …

Venezuela has announced an investigation into claims migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador from the US suffered human rights abuses. More than 250 Venezuelans were repatriated to near Caracas on Friday. They had been detained in El Salvador since March following their deportation from the United States. Venezuelan …

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has threatened to detain former President Jair Bolsonaro. The judge, Alexandre de Moraes, accused Bolsonaro of breaching a ban which bars him from appearing in audios, videos and interviews shared on social media. Justice Moraes said the ex-president could face “immediate imprisonment” unless his lawyers …