Latin America

Panama Migration Boom and Bust
Lifejackets hang at the home of a local in Villa Caleta, Panama, Monday, April 7, 2025. The jackets were once used to ferry migrants after their trek across the Darien Gap on their way north to the U.S. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Latin America

AP documents radical migratory shifts under Trump’s administration in the Darien Gap jungle

APRIL 25, 2025

Argentina Francis Soccer
FILE - Pope Francis holds a San Lorenzo soccer jersey after celebrating his first Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Latin America

Pope Francis loved soccer, San Lorenzo and the sport’s power to unite

APRIL 24, 2025

Lifejackets hang at the home of a local in Villa Caleta, Panama, Monday, April 7, 2025. The jackets were once used to ferry migrants after their trek across the Darien Gap on their way north to the U.S. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Lifejackets hang at the home of a local in Villa Caleta, Panama, Monday, April 7, 2025. The jackets were once used to ferry migrants after their trek across the Darien Gap on their way north to the U.S. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Latin America

A jungle route once carried hundreds of thousands of migrants. Now the local economy has crashed

APRIL 16, 2025

FILE - Writer Mario Vargas Llosa speaks to reporters in New York, Oct. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
FILE - Writer Mario Vargas Llosa speaks to reporters in New York, Oct. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Latin America

Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and Nobel literature laureate, dies at 89

APRIL 14, 2025

Brazil Fashion Walerio Araujo
A model wears a creations from the Walerio Araujo collection during Sao Paulo Fashion Week, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Ettore Chiereguini)

Latin America

Brazil Sao Paulo Fashion Week

APRIL 14, 2025

Family and friends attend the funeral of Marilenny Pilarte who died at the Jet Set nightclub when its roof collapsed, in Haina, Dominican Republic, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Family and friends attend the funeral of Marilenny Pilarte who died at the Jet Set nightclub when its roof collapsed, in Haina, Dominican Republic, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Latin America

Burials begin as the search ends for victims in the Dominican nightclub collapse that killed 221

APRIL 11, 2025

APTOPIX Mexico Military Corridos
A soldier plays an accordion during the performance of the "corrido" rhythmic style for the media at a military base in Mexico City, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Latin America

Meet the Mexican soldier trying to revamp a musical genre accused of glorifying cartels

APRIL 7, 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

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Latin America

Street vendors dispense the party fuel for Rio’s Carnival, but face pushback as their numbers grow

MARCH 4, 2025

Brazil Carnival
Musicians greet each other with a kiss during the "Ceu na Terra" or "Heaven on Earth" Carnival street party in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Latin America

Carnival kicks off in Rio – Photo Collection

MARCH 1, 2025

FILE - A man walks past boxes of USAID humanitarian aid at a warehouse at the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 21, 2019, on the border with Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)
FILE - A man walks past boxes of USAID humanitarian aid at a warehouse at the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 21, 2019, on the border with Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Latin America

USAID is going away. Here’s what it’s been doing in South America

FEB. 5, 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)

Latin America

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

JAN. 31, 2025

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