Latin America

Thirty-three out of 44 Latino Democratic candidates won the election in Tuesday’s contests, while six out of 15 Latino Republican candidates claimed victory.

A joint project between the Brazilian state-owned Vale mining firm and BHP, the Samarco dam collapsed on November 5, 2015, killing 19 people.

The “caravan” of thousands of Central Americans currently traveling through Mexico has become a touchpoint for U.S. President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric.

The number of Latinos who say their situation in the United States has worsened under Trump has risen from 32 percent shortly after he was elected to 47 percent just before the midterms.

El Chapo and his criminal track record raised security concerns as the trial begins.

I’ve come to realize that maybe that’s why the pain visits us yearly, leaving us with the worse emotional hangover of the year.

On October 29, the president ordered troops to the border, even though the caravan was —and still is— hundreds of miles away.

The court ruled Wednesday that the ban on personal use or consumption violated Mexicans’ “fundamental right to the free development of the personality.”

The daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, Keiko was found to have interfered in an investigation into systemic money-laundering within her party.

I was an immigrant child, confused, unaware of why we had traveled so far from the world I knew.

Migrants are traveling together for their own protection, to avoid having to pay a smuggler and to minimize the risk of crime.

Under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, children born in the United States are recognized as citizens. Throughout U.S. history, this has included children of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants.

Who doesn’t like pupusas, who doesn’t dance cumbias, who refused to have a quinceañera because I always disliked dresses and pink shit.

Fernando Haddad, his main opponent, only got 44.3 percent of the votes.

With a 12 percent lead heading into Sunday’s second-round vote, the longtime lawmaker, best known for his record of advocating for political violence, racism, homophobia, and sexism, has attempted to moderate his rhetoric around certain positions.

Every community practices El Día de los Muertos differently, but how we talk about those practices (and their histories) matters greatly.

Pence claimed that Honduras’ president had told him that Venezuela was financing leftists who had organized the caravan. He provided no evidence to back the claim.

Back in Washington D.C., Vice President Pence defended President Trump’s statements that potential Middle Eastern terrorists were part of the caravan.

I’ve never understood my mother’s paranoia when she hears certain words.

In July, Bolsonaro’s son, Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, said the Army could shut down Brazil’s top court, in reply to a question about what his father’s campaign would do if he was prohibited from taking office.

El Salvador was the place where I saw my mother as she truly was.