Latin America

Venezuela Colombia
Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez waves as she waits for Colombian President Gustavo Petro at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Investigations

AP reveals prosecutors were told to stand down on Venezuelan leader

JUNE 5, 2026

Colombia Election
Supporters listen to presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella of the Defenders of the Motherland movement speaking aboard a barge on the Magdalena River after leading the first round of the presidential election and advancing to a runoff in Barranquilla, Colombia, Sunday, May 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Colombia

Colombia’s soccer jersey isn’t just about sports. It’s become a symbol of political division

JUNE 3, 2026

Argentina Soccer Religion
River Plate fans cheer during an Argentine league match against Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Latin America

Why soccer fandom in Latin America feels almost sacred

JUNE 2, 2026

Venezuela-Strike Victims
(AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin)

Drug trafficking

Reporters take risky trip in Venezuela and uncover a nuanced truth about crewmen of boats blown up by Trump administration

NOV. 14, 2025

Cuba Foreign Minister
Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Cuba

Cuban foreign minister says Rubio’s ‘personal’ agenda in Latin America risks Trump’s peace prospects

OCT. 1, 2025

After Immigration Raids Photo Essay
Anaise, 3, clings to her mother, Veronica, an immigrant from Guatemala, as she works at a sewing machine in Los Angeles, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, amid ongoing ICE raids. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Guatemala

AP reconstruction of the attempt to remove Guatemalan children from U.S. custody breaks news

SEPT. 12, 2025

Senate Moreno Latin America
Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno raises his right fist during a rally for Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, in Middletown, Ohio, July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)

Conservatives

A US senator from Colombia emerges as a Trump link for Latin America’s conservatives

AUG. 12, 2025

El Salvador Deportees
In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

Latin America

An AP team goes to the birthplace of Tren de Aragua, the gang put at the center of Trump’s anti-immigrant narrative

APRIL 4, 2025

Peru Disappeared
Lidia Flores, the leader of the National Association of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared Persons of Peru, poses for a portrait in Ayacucho, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. Flores' husband was killed in Peru's internal armed conflict (1980-2000). (AP Photo/Silvio La Rosa)

Human rights

Peru’s disappeared: Dozens look for relatives lost to violence. A woman who knows their sorrow helps

JAN. 31, 2025

APTOPIX Venezuela Election
President Nicolas Maduro gestures to supporters during a speech from the presidential palace in defense of his reelection, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Elections

AP experimented with a live blog in Spanish to resounding success in Venezuela election  

AUG. 2, 2024

Venezuela Daily Life
Residents walk through the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Elections

Novel approach engages audience on Venezuela election 

JULY 26, 2024

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Etienne Ilienses, right, checks her family’s papers for a flight to Chile, at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 30, 2022. Ilienses told AP she was sent back to Haiti from Texas on Dec. 14, 2021. “To get to the USA, I braved hell,” she said. Still, she did not dismiss doing it again “because Haiti offers nothing to its children. We are forced to suffer humiliations, affronts everywhere.” (AP Photo / Odelyn Joseph)

Charter flights

Joint investigation exposes vast network of charter flights for Haitian migrants

JUNE 24, 2022

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