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.

Trump Administration Labels 8 Latin American Cartels as 'Foreign Terrorist Organizations' President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (Pool via AP) ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is formally designating eight Latin American crime organizations as “foreign terrorist organizations,” upping its pressure on cartels operating in ...

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 ...