Latin America

The government of President Daniel Ortega is enabling an environmental disaster with far-reaching consequences.

What’s happening to Nicaragua’s forests? How is that connected to the political situation there? How are environmentalists...

Osorno Cóleman, a one-time foe of the dictatorial Ortega regime, joined forces with the government as top officials aided a...

A U.S. court sentenced the kingpin of an international money laundering network to 15 years in prison for his role in...

U.S. courts last week indicted three Colombians and two Venezuelans for laundering US$1.6 billion in bribes allegedly paid...

Colombian authorities said they captured over the weekend one of the country’s most wanted criminals, the 50-years-old...

Amid a Chinese push to gain influence in Serbia, Huawei appears to have paid large sums to a former Serbian state telecom...

Portuguese and Spanish police intercepted on Saturday a sailboat off the coast of Portugal, seized 5.2 tonnes of cocaine and...

A former chief executive officer (CEO) of Braskem S.A., a Brazilian petrochemical company, was sentenced in a New York court...

'In 2009, a man known as "Putin’s masseur" bought a luxury villa on a Croatian island. The Pandora Papers show...

The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four Mexican nationals last week, accusing them of trafficking...

Chilean authorities arrested nine suspected members of a Latin American criminal group, which is said to have trafficked at...