The U.S. pressured Latin American governments to shut down the supply of narcotics coming in to the county, but Latin American countries insisted the market was driven by U.S. demand for the drugs.

Geneva, July 8th, 2019 – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and IOM, the International Organization for Migration, welcome the adoption by Latin American and Caribbean countries of a road map to facilitate ...

Most Latin American countries recognized Mao Zedong’s communist government following U.S. President Richard Nixon’s trip to China in 1972, but it was not until after China’s entry into the ...

Some countries are exceptions but, as our map below reveals, Latin America’s biggest ones are governed by authoritarian or “hybrid” regimes and “flawed democracies” (those that have ...