AMERICAS
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Colombian Wounaan Families Fled Guerrillas, Then an Earthquake Took Their Children’s Only School
Thirteen years after fleeing guerrilla recruitment, 35 Wounaan families near Buenaventura have lost their only school to Colombia’s August earthquake.…
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Colombia Judge Temporarily Bars Airstrikes When Intelligence Shows Children May Be Present
Colombia’s renewed air war against armed groups has exposed an old national wound: children recruited into violence can become battlefield…
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Great Britain Digs In as Milei Turns Malvinas Oil Into Leverage Again
Argentina’s Malvinas dispute with Great Britain is entering a sharper phase as Javier Milei targets oil companies, promises a southern…
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Peruvian Gang Los Pulpos Stretches Its Tentacles Across South America
The arrest of Los Pulpos leader Jhonsson Cruz Torres in Bolivia exposes a criminal economy no longer confined to Peru,…
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Mexico Tracks Tropical Storm Marie as Heat and Floods Split the Forecast
Tropical Storm Marie is strengthening off Mexico’s Pacific coast, threatening heavier rain and dangerous surf even as its center moves…
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Colombia’s Earthquake Exposes Buenaventura’s Fault Lines Beyond the Shaking Ground
After a 7.4-magnitude earthquake shattered homes and schools in Buenaventura, aid reached communities already living without reliable water, education, or…
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Mexico’s Influencer Killings Expose Cartels’ Deadliest Algorithm in Plain Sight
César Gastélum’s livestreamed murder in Culiacán turned a phone screen into a crime scene, exposing how Mexico’s influencer economy, cartel…
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El Salvador Farmers Watch El Niño Turn Corn into Dust
In San Esteban Catarina, farmers who planted with faith now walk through brittle cornfields. El Niño has erased harvests, income,…
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Colombia Ends Endless Peace Talks as Armed Groups Keep Growing
President Abelardo de la Espriella has closed three negotiating tables inherited from Gustavo Petro. The case rests on armed expansion,…
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Colombia Puts Southcom Back on the Pacific Drug War Map
A high-level meeting in Tumaco and a deadly bombing in Guaviare signal Colombia’s swift return to offensive security policy, deepening…
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