NEW YORK — Many countries, from the United States and Uruguay to India and Indonesia, will hold elections in 2024.

NEW YORK — Threats to democracy in Latin America are nothing new.

NEW YORK — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has reached the beginning of the end.

 MEXICO CITY  —  The popular rejection of Chile’s proposed new constitution was expected. Its magnitude was not.

MEXICO CITY — Gustavo Petro, a veteran left-wing politician and ex-guerrilla, has been elected Colombia’s next president, defeating his opponent — the eccentric right-wing populist Rodolfo Hernández Suárez — by a small but uncontested margin.

MEXICO CITY — If former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reclaims the post in this October’s election (as now seems likely), and if Colombia’s leftist presidential candidate, Gustavo Petro, wins in May, their victories would build on a wave that began with Mexican Pr

MEXICO CITY — Chile has long been something of a bellwether in Latin America.

MEXICO CITY — Since the first days of Joe Biden’s presidency, his administration has insisted that the growing number of migrants being apprehended at the US-Mexico border is not a “crisis”, but rather a normal, seasonal spike.

MEXICO CITY — In the Caribbean, summer is when things happen. As the weather heats up and hurricanes pass through, passions tend to flare and crises erupt. Yet, such crises rarely occur in more than one country at a time, and the dangers they pose are generally limited.