COURTS

Former Misiones lawmaker sentenced to 14 years in child sex abuse case

Crime & Security

La Matanza tops homicide stats in Buenos Aires Province

CRIME & SECURITY

‘I have the weapons’ – Parents alert police to teens’ school shooting plan

death of diego maradona

Witness arrested for false testimony at Maradona death trial

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rights body criticises Milei over policing of protests

PENSION PROTEST

Milei government issues public transport threat to demonstators

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Violence and institutional informality

At Agustino Fontevecchia

POLITICS & SECURITY

Bullrich blames photographer’s injuries on ‘those who generate violence’

CLASHES WITH SECURITY FORCES

More than 120 detained, 20 injured as pensions protest turns violent

At Zella Milfred

Foreign policy & diplomacy

Milei to visit Spain, make second trip to Israel

At James Grainger

CRIME & SECURITY

Milei tells Kicillof to resign over Buenos Aires Province ‘bloodbath’

CRIME & SECURITY

‘Devastated’: Family lays seven-year-old to rest after brutal death

GANG VIOLENCE

In Río de Janeiro, a wrong turn takes paradise to peril

At Fran Blandy, AFP

GANG VIOLENCE

Ecuador's wild west shows limits of Noboa's 'iron fist'

At Andrew Beatty, AFP

PRISON POPULATION

Argentina's prison population grew 3.4% last year, says report

CRIME & SECURITY

Argentina to declare Mapuche group RAM a ‘terrorist organisation’

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

Milei boosts Bullrich’s role in Cabinet reshaping

CRIME & SECURITY

Eruption of organised crime changes Chile’s daily customs

At Rodrigo Arangua, AFP

FOREIGN POLICY & SECURITY

Argentina may send Armed Forces to beef up Triple Frontier security

Colombia Guerrilla Violence

Colombia tries to contain guerrilla violence that has killed 100

CRIME & SECURITY

Bullrich announces arrest of ‘terrorist linked to Islamic State’

Disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña

Pope voices concern over missing seven-year-old

CRISIS IN VENEZUELA

Venezuela's 'colectivos' ready to pounce as opposition plans protest

At Patrick Fort & Yorman Maldonado, AFP

AMID SCANDAL

Yáñez gives up state security detail amid NYE dinner furore

Latin America

Ecuadorean adolescents still missing as search efforts increase

HUMAN RIGHTS

Amnesty Int’l urges Milei to respect rights after year of ‘confrontation’

At James Grainger

Congress & Politics

Entre Ríos lawmaker accused of money-laundering expelled from Senate

CRIME IN THE CAPITAL

Robberies on the rise in Buenos Aires City, data shows

CRIME & SECURITY

‘Narco-terrorists’ make death threats against security minister, governor

Remnants of a coup - Brazil

Brazil arrests four soldiers over alleged 2022 Lula assassination plot

LATAM

Hunger in G20 host Brazil is Lula's unfinished fight

At Louis Genot, AFP

EXPLOSIONS IN BRASÍLIA

Brazil investigating Supreme Court bomb attack as 'terrorist act'

Football violence

Three sought over murders of Rosario Central football hooligans

Hooliganism strikes again

Two Rosario Central fans killed as football violence again rears head

UNITED STATES ELECTION 2024

'Panic buttons,' SWAT teams: United States braces for election unrest

At Michael Mathes, AFP

TERROR ATTACKS

Argentina names Hezbollah operative behind AMIA, Israeli Embassy attacks

POLLS & SURVEYS

Chile overwhelmingly scorns immigration, poll shows

At Matthew Malinowski, Bloomberg

DRUG-TRAFFICKING

‘Mochileros de la cocaína’ – Rising numbers of drug ‘mule’ backpackers

At Leonardo Nieva

CRIME & SECURITY

‘Butcher of Giles’: Fugitive killer who murdered family apprehended by police

CRIME & SECURITY

Fugitive Misiones ex-deputy accused of paedophilia captured by police

KILLING OF TEHUEL DE LA TORRE

Verdict in first trial into suspected murder of trans man nears

CRIME & SECURITY

Manhunt for fugitive Misiones lawmaker accused of child porn offences

CRIME & SECURITY

Police arrest seven members of ‘radical Islamic terrorist group’

Disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña

Two months since Loan disappeared – how the case continues

POLITICS

Corrientes security minister resigns post amid missing child case

CRIME & SECURITY

Investigation into of disappearance of five-year-old takes disturbing twist

CFK ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

CFK attempted murder trial: Carrizo says he 'would never kill'

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Social indicators cast doubt over Milei's 'catastrophe' averted claim

At Agustina Bordigoni

Disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña

Aunt of missing five-year-old child Loan testifies he was ‘run over’

JUSTICE SYSTEM & PRISONS

Milei slashes budget for legal centres in favour of prison spending

At Agustina Bordigoni