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A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced both former President Otto Perez and his vice president, Roxana Baldetti, to 16 years in prison each in a graft case years after explosive corruption revelations forced the two out of office early and into prison. Perez and Baldetti were accused of leading a...

Dina Boluarte became Peru’s first female President on Wednesday, capping off a dramatic day which saw her predecessor impeached and arrested for the alleged crime of rebellion. The ceremony took place hours after a majority of 101 members in the 130-person legislative body voted to impeach former...

A court in Argentina, on Tuesday, sentenced the country’s vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, to six years in prison and disqualified her from holding public office again after finding her guilty of corruption during her earlier terms as president. Fernández de Kirchner has temporary...

The president says peace talks have led to an agreement to allow the Indigenous Embera community to return to its lands. Petro did not say when the Embera would return to their lands in the departments of Choco and Risaralda in western Colombia. They had fled violence between drug gangs, outlawed...

The prominent Guatemalan investigative newspaper “El Periodico” announced Wednesday that it is stopping its print edition, after the government arrested the paper’s president. All the paper’s reporters have been let go, and it is not clear how it can continue with digital editions only. The...

Venezuela’s government and its opposition on Saturday agreed to create a UN-managed fund to finance health, food, and education programs for the poor, while the Biden administration eased some oil sanctions on the country in an effort to boost the newly restarted talks between the sides. The...

Hebe de Bonafini, the iconic cofounder of Argentina's Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and a staunch fighter against the human rights violations committed during the country's military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s, died on Sunday at the age of 93. Bonafini became one of Argentina's most famous human...

The Colombian government and the South American country’s largest remaining guerrilla group resumed peace talks Monday, breaking a roughly four-year hiatus where the rebels expanded their territory. The delegates in a joint declaration stated they had gathered to restart political dialogue “with...

The United Nations Children’s Agency has received at least 1,800 unaccompanied children delivered by Dominican immigration authorities into Haiti since the year began, a spokesperson told CNN on Monday. Many arrive without identity documents and are “shipped” into the country amid adult deportees...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has called on the Dominican Republic to cease forced deportations of Haitian migrants and people of Haitian ancestry amid a growing human rights crisis in Haiti, to which the country's president responded with a statement that the Dominican Republic...