A diminished Biden heads to APEC summit in Peru, overshadowed by China's Xi

LIMA, Peru (AP) — If things had gone differently last week, U.S. President Joe Biden could have arrived at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Peru on Thursday projecting confidence and pledging his successor’s cooperation with eager Latin American partners. No longer. ...

The Latin Grammys return to Miami for their 25th anniversary. Here's what to know

NEW YORK (AP) — Latin music has taken the world by storm, sparking industry conversations for the past few years. Across platforms like Spotify and Apple Music, numbers have skyrocketed, making it the fastest growing streaming genre in the United States. The Latin Grammy Awards,...

Biden will visit the Amazon rainforest as part of six-day trip to Latin America

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will become the first sitting president to visit the Amazon rainforest later this month when he travels to Brazil as part of a six-day trip to Latin America for a pair of international summits, the White House said Thursday. Biden will start...

Bolivia's Evo Morales tells AP he'll press on with a hunger strike until his rival accepts dialogue

LAUCA Ñ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's transformative and divisive former President Evo Morales said Sunday that he would press on with a hunger strike until the government of his protégé-turned-rival agreed to a political dialogue. His act of dissent aims to defuse street protests that have...

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Oct. 25-31, 2024 Fans of Argentina's Lanús launch fireworks ahead of a Copa Sudamericana match against Brazil's Cruzeiro. Kayapos protest a proposed constitutional amendment in Brazil that threatens some Indigenous land. Venezuelan migrants cross the Suchiate River from Guatemala...

Uruguay, one of Latin America's strongest democracies, heads to a runoff between two moderates

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Voters in the small South American nation of Uruguay cast ballots Sunday in a presidential election in which a center-left rural mayor pulled firmly ahead of the conservative incumbent-party candidate, pushing the race into a second round of voting. Both...

Polls open in Uruguay in a general election free of the deep political divisions seen elsewhere in South America

The dark sky over an urban park in central Mexico attracts stargazers who worry it might not last

JOYA-LA BARRETA ECOLOGICAL PARK, Mexico (AP) — As night descended, a rumble of frogs filled the air in this park outside the central Mexican city of Queretaro. In the sky, tiny stars appeared one by one, aligning into constellations. Juan Carlos Hernández used his weight to...

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Oct. 18-24, 2024 Millions of Cubans were left without electricity for days after the nation’s energy grid went down when one of the island’s major power plants failed. The Amazon River naturally fluctuates during the dry and rainy seasons. But a dramatic drop has...

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Oct. 11-17, 2024 One Direction fans flocked to the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after singer Liam Payne died in a fall from a hotel balcony. Businesses in Ecuador’s capital have seen their sales dented by rolling power cuts introduced by the government...