Under pressure from President Donald Trump, who had threatened to take the Panama Canal back under U.S. control, the Panamanian government seized two ports at either end of the canal that had been run ...

The politician from the Central American country defends the president’s ‘strong leadership’ model and, despite criticism ...

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The mayor of Medellin on Friday touted the construction of a mega-prison in his city, Colombia's second-largest, becoming the latest Latin American leader to mimic the iron-fisted approach to gang ...

Newly released documents from the city of Social Circle reveal a federal initiative to re-engineer the national detention system with a massive $38.3 billion budget. The Department of Homeland ...

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to make arrangements to allow some of the Venezuelan migrants flown to a notorious prison in El Salvador to return to the U.S at the government’s ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. For months, President Donald Trump has railed against Latin ...

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EXCLUSIVE: A fugitive previously on the FBI's Most Wanted list for the kidnapping and murder of a 5-year-old Philadelphia girl has been arrested in Honduras. Alexis Flores was taken into custody on ...