More on the Americas
By Richard Fausset and Andres D'Alessandro
Los Angeles Times
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — Few people were more shocked at the choice of a Jesuit as pope than the Jesuits.
By Vincent Bevins, Los Angeles Times
SAO PAULO, Brazil — When she was 19, Neide Cardeal da Silva left her family, who barely scraped by living off the...
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
BUENOS AIRES — A block away from Pope Francis' childhood home, a modest neighborhood church is wedged between a bakery and a bank of...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — Instead of the bus, a chauffeur. No longer a tiny apartment, but a penthouse suite. Not just a new name, but his own...
By Andres D'Alessandro and Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times
BUENOS AIRES — The man who is now Pope Francis was a young Jesuit leader, not long out of seminary, when Argentina's military junta...
By Vincent Bevins, Cecilia Sanchez and Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times
SAO PAULO, Brazil — In Mexico, President Enrique Peña Nieto tweeted an affectionate greeting for Pope Francis as he prepared...
By Andres D'Alessandro and Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times
BUENOS AIRES — Argentines reacted with joyous surprise to the news that former Jesuit priest, local archbishop and, most recently,...
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — Scientists who take the annual measure of Mexican forestland famously occupied by migrating monarch butterflies said...
By Richard Fausset and Cecilia Sanchez, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — President Enrique Peña Nieto on Monday touted proposed new reforms to boost competition in Mexico's highly...
By Chris Kraul and Mery Mogollon, Los Angeles Times
CARACAS, Venezuela — Opposition leader Henrique Capriles agreed Sunday to run against interim President Nicolas Maduro in an...
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — They elected a youthful president, a self-styled defender of democratic principles who promised to bring the country...
By Chris Kraul and Mery Mogollon, Los Angeles Times
CARACAS, Venezuela — A special election to decide the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's successor will be held in April, with...
By Chris Kraul and Mery Mogollon, Los Angeles Times
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was remembered Friday as a leader who cared for the poor and opposed the...
By Chris Kraul and Mery Mogollon
CARACAS, Venezuela — Nicolas Maduro, a stocky former bus driver who never finished high school, takes power with a deep reserve of...
By Richard Fausset, Chris Kraul and Mery Mogollon, Los Angeles Times
CARACAS, Venezuela — Her neighborhood on the outskirts of this capital city is a dangerous, gang-infested barrio where homes are often...
By Chris Kraul and Mery Mogollon, Los Angeles Times
CARACAS, Venezuela —Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the charismatic socialist whose Bolivarian Revolution reduced poverty and...
By Paul Richter and Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Even though the U.S. Embassy's military attache was expelled from Venezuela shortly before the death of President Hugo...
By Richard Marosi and Ari Bloomekatz, Los Angeles Times
TIJUANA — From a gated yard on a gritty street in this border city, white-paneled tour buses would set out for Disneyland, Knott's...
By Richard Fausset and Mery Mogollon, Los Angeles Times
CARACAS, Venezuela — Subway commuters cried on their trains. Drivers blasted their horns in grief. The government called for seven...
By Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times
Federal authorities have seized 1,500 counterfeit Hermes handbags from China at the Port of Los Angeles, U.S. Customs and Border...
By Tracy Wilkinson and Shan Li, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's ruling party has taken a step toward opening its state oil company to outsiders, a move that could eventually...
By Richard Fausset and Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times
CARACAS, Venezuela — In communist Cuba, people remember how painful it was to lose the patronage of the former Soviet Union, their...
By Vincent Bevins, Los Angeles Times
SAO PAULO, Brazil — When left-leaning President Joao Goulart was deposed by the Brazilian military in 1964, the nation's major news...
By Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times
CALI, Colombia — Union organizer Juan Carlos Perez saw two gunmen in front of his house and tried to escape though the back door....
By Mery Mogollon and Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has been out of public view since his December surgery for cancer, is...
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — The reversal of fortune could not have been more striking. And for many Mexicans, the images, broadcast live on national...
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
OUTSIDE SAN LUIS DE LA LOMA, Mexico — Don Polo's heavily armed convoy wound its way through the hills above the lush coastal plain...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — To most outsiders, Miguel Diaz-Canel was an unknown. But in Cuba, the newly anointed possible heir to the Castro...
By Richard Fausset and Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — Elba Esther Gordillo, one of the most powerful women in Mexico and head of the country's huge and controversial teachers...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — In one of the strongest portents yet of a post-Castro Cuba, President Raul Castro said Sunday that his newly granted...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — They represent the region with more Roman Catholics than any other. And their to-do list for the next pope is a long...
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — After a closed-door meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto here Friday, Republican Sen. John McCain...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — Authorities conducted aerial sweeps over Guatemala's northern jungle Friday in search of bodies left by a reported gun...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — Security forces have taken part in many kidnappings and disappearances in Mexico, and the government's failure to...
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times
HOUSTON — The couple, farmers from a village in the Mexican state of Veracruz, had traveled more than 1,200 miles to see their 26-...
By Chris Kraul and Mery Mogollon, Los Angeles Times
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez's return to Venezuela after cancer treatment in Cuba answered questions about whether he...
By Pablo Jaramillo Viteri and Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times
QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador's incumbent president, Rafael Correa, swept to an easy reelection victory Sunday, winning 58% of the vote...
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
ACAPULCO — Four days after the rapes of six Spanish tourists here, Erick De Santiago sat at his beachfront bar, with its commanding...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — You might be hard-pressed to find the word "Mexico" in some of the advertising for tourist resorts in Mexico.
By Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Influential House Republicans, adopting a distinctly more conciliatory approach to immigration reform since the...
By Vincent Bevins, Los Angeles Times
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Between the high-rises in the dark center of this megacity, a swarm of people covers an entire block. They are...
By Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times
CUATRO MILPAS, MEXICO— In this hardscrabble farming village, an American teenager like Luis Martinez was bound to stand out.
By Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times
A U.S. pilot program designed to deport illegal immigrants by flying them to Mexico City will operate for only two months this year and...
Times wire services
Cuban activist Oswaldo Paya, who spent decades speaking out against the communist government of Fidel and Raul Castro and became one of...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
CULIACAN, Mexico — For generations, the extended Hernandez family tended fields of marijuana high in Sinaloa's western Sierra Madre...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
CULIACAN, Mexico — The cartel henchman nicknamed "El Loco" was reported behind the latest atrocity in Mexico's ever-more-depraved drug...
By Chris Kraul
BOGOTA, Colombia -- A little wild pig named Josefo, abandoned by his mother, helped keep Sgt. Jose Libardo Forero sane.
By Reed Johnson and Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times
If Carlos Fuentes could have invented the perfect character to star in one of his novels, he might have come up with a protagonist named...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — Tomas Borge, last living founder of Nicaragua's Sandinista movement and one of its most hard-line enforcers as it...
By Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Police and federal agents pulled the car over in a suburb north of Denver. An FBI agent showed his badge. The driver...
By Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY —Former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid, who led the country amid economic meltdown and natural disaster in the...
By Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times
Ricardo Legorreta, the architect who introduced Mexican modernism to a global audience and who brought his crisp, brightly colored aesthetic...
By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau
High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF's Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the...
By Ken Ellingwood, Richard A. Serrano and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Last fall's slaying of Mario Gonzalez, the brother of a Mexican state prosecutor, shocked people on both sides of the border. Sensational...
By Richard Marosi and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Last of four parts
By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau
The claim by senior ATF officials that none of the weapons lost in the botched Fast and Furious sting operation were used in the shooting of...
By Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times
Gilbert "Magú" Luján — a painter, muralist and sculptor whose whimsical, slyly humorous art works, frequently evoking a...
By Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times
Two days after U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry was killed in December, the top ATF supervisors in Phoenix said in internal emails...
By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau
Congressional investigators probing the controversial "Fast and Furious" anti-gun-trafficking operation on the border with Mexico believe at...
By Alex Renderos and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Reporting from San Salvador and Mexico City -- Argentine songwriter and singer Facundo Cabral, an icon of Latin American folk and protest...
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