Efforts to save the pirarucu, one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, have been a success while offering a strategy for fending off a broader freshwater extinction crisis.
The killing of two Canadian soldiers last month, including one at the National War Memorial, brought out crowds not seen in decades at Canada’s annual Remembrance Day service.
President Donald Ramotar of Guyana used a constitutional mechanism that gives him the right to disband the legislature for up to six months.
The Brazilian police killed more than 11,000 people between 2009 and 2013, for an average of six killings a day, a public safety organization said Tuesday in a report.
Teachers and students protesting the abduction and apparent murder of 43 college students in September set fire Tuesday to the headquarters of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s party in Guerrero State.
New York Times journalists covering religion would like to hear from Catholics who have been divorced, and, in particular, from those who have remarried.
Pending legislation may deny justice to innocent Colombians killed by a military obsessed with body counts.
Mexican authorities are about to do something they have not attempted in decades: ask people on a census form if they consider themselves black.
Thiago Castanho wants to show the world the Amazon’s bounty of ingredients has the potential to turn the cuisine of Latin America on its head.
Five other mass graves have been discovered while the search for the 43 missing students continues
The Nebaj region of Guatemala has contributed to the surge of unaccompanied minors seeking a better life in the United States.
The challenges of balancing conservation and economic development in the largest remaining area of tropical forest come into sharp relief in Brazil.
Mexico is trying to disrupt the flow of migrants traveling from Central America to the United States. Many are determined to make the trip anyway.
For the latest news and analysis from our reporters and editors.
Staff Twitter List for the Americas »
