CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's U.S.-backed opposition on Monday came under increasing scrutiny for a case in which two activists allegedly misappropriated funds designated to help...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — U.S. investigators have received permission from Ecuador to question a Swedish programmer close to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has been held in jail for more than...

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — Diego Maradona has criticized Argentina after its opening loss to Colombia in the Copa America.

Maradona tells the TyC Sports channel in Buenos Aires "even...

SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — Lionel Messi wants Argentina to get over its worst defeat in a Copa America opener. And quickly.

Messi called on his teammates to immediately put the 2-0 loss to...

SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — James Rodriguez got the best of Lionel Messi in the Copa America, leading Colombia to a 2-0 win over Argentina in their opening game in the South American tournament on...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — For 2022 World Cup host Qatar, every Copa America match will be like a final.

Sunday's clash against Paraguay at the historic Maracana stadium is especially so because...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Major European nations are considering imposing sanctions on Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro and several top officials for their recent crackdown on political opponents,...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that major European nations are considering imposing sanctions on Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro and several top officials for their recent...

SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — Will it be more of the same or the starting point of a prosperous cycle?

The question applies to both Argentina and Colombia ahead of their Copa America debut in...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Despite a dark past, today many LGBT citizens in Latin America are enjoying the right to marry, choose their gender identity and adopt children. But while laws in several...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Sweden is hosting talks between major global powers with stakes in dealing with Venezuela's political turmoil, the latest effort to jumpstart flagging attempts to find a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort begins on Friday a five-month medical assistance mission in 11 countries of the Americas affected by Venezuela's humanitarian...

NEW YORK (AP) — He has sung for previous award honorees and this year he will be the recipient. Colombian rocker-activist Juanes has been named the 2019 Latin Recording Academy Person of the...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The latest on the political turmoil in Venezuela (all times local):

12:15 p.m.

Officials say that Sweden is hosting talks between major powers with interests in...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Australia will be one of the two guest nations at the 2020 Copa America, the head of South America's soccer body said on Thursday.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A former top Colombian rebel leader wanted in the U.S. on drug charges has gotten off to a rocky start as a newly sworn-in lawmaker.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States says Colombian President Ivan Duque is making a "sincere effort" to cut cocaine production in his country.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A former Colombian rebel leader wanted in the U.S. on drug charges was sworn into office as a congressman on Tuesday in a case that has riled detractors of the...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The names of the dead are filling Colombia's storied Bolivar Plaza.

One by one, renowned artist Doris Salcedo led volunteers Monday in creating a public art display...

CÚCUTA, Colombia (AP) — Thousands of people crossed into Colombia on Saturday to buy food and medicine after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reopened a border between the countries that had...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Shakira's public relations firm says the Colombian pop musician has denied any wrongdoing when she testified before a judge as part of an investigation into her alleged tax...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The head of Colombia's army was promoted Wednesday amid an outcry over an order he issued that has stirred fears of a return to serious human rights violations.

MUNICH (AP) — Bayern Munich says James Rodriguez is leaving the club following his two-year loan from Real Madrid.

The Bavarian club had the option to sign James for a fixed price of 42...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — If there's a negotiated settlement to Venezuela*s protracted crisis, it will likely be reached with the help of a self-effacing, tight-lipped Scandinavian diplomat with a...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — With James Rodriguez and Radamel Falcao as main team leaders, Colombia's coach Carlos Queiroz announced his squad for Copa America in Brazil on Thursday.

BAJO CHIQUITO, Panama (AP) — At first they appeared only as weary silhouettes emerging from the dense foliage on the other side of the Tuquesa River.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — U.S.-supplied humanitarian aid that was earmarked for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó will now be distributed in Colombia, officials said...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A top rebel peace negotiator wanted in the United States for allegedly conspiring to traffic cocaine was freed from detention for the second time in less than a month...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's widespread gasoline shortages are starting to affect some cities in Colombia, where drivers depend on cheap fuel smuggled in from their socialist-governed...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos told graduates of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government that the most important value they can have as leaders is...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's Supreme Court has ordered a top rebel peace negotiator freed from jail after he was newly detained in a highly politicized drug case.

CUNDINAMARCA, Colombia (AP) — In a small farmhouse surrounded by cloud forest, Iván Lozano inspects dozens of glass containers that hold some of the world's most coveted frogs.

This photo gallery highlights some of the top news images made by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean that were published in the past week.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — With Julian Assange locked away in a London jail, a new battle has broken out over what may contain some of the WikiLeaks founder's biggest secrets: his computers.

LONDON (AP) — Colombia's former Davis Cup captain, Miguel Tobon, has been suspended for a year and fined $20,000 by the Tennis Integrity Unit for accepting payoffs in return for tournament...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A former Colombian rebel leader was hospitalized with signs of "altered consciousness" on Saturday, a day after being freed from jail and then rearrested in a...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A former Colombian rebel leader was re-arrested by police Friday moments after his release from jail by a peace tribunal whose ruling against extraditing him to the U.S....

This photo gallery highlights some of the top news images made by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean that were published in the past week.

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has cleared Colombian singers Shakira and Carlos Vives of a plagiarism claim after rejecting a lawsuit brought against them by a Cuban-born singer and...

PENITAS, Panama (AP) — Venise Felizor lay on a mattress in a warehouse-turned-shelter on a hot, sticky afternoon with her 20-month-old son, Wesly, in her arms, the boy coughing and wailing after...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The special tribunal investigating war crimes during Colombia's decades-long civil conflict ruled Wednesday that a top rebel peace negotiator should not be extradited to...

CÚCUTA, Colombia (AP) — Arelys Pulido had already lost one baby in a neglected Venezuelan hospital where doctors and medical gear are in increasingly short supply, so when she got pregnant again...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Venezuelan government is seeking to ease the country's isolation, reopening borders with Aruba and Brazil after shutting off sea and land access in February to block...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Four people are dead and at least eight injured after an explosion in Bogota at what may have been an underground gunpowder store.

For women in many parts of the world, a level playing field in soccer can simply mean having a playable practice field.

Players in Latin America face clear political, cultural and even...

MILAN (AP) — Colombian cyclist Egan Bernal has broken his collarbone in a training accident, ruling him out of the upcoming Giro d'Italia.

Bernal had been one of the pre-race favorites and...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — One of Colombia's most-prominent grassroots activists and winner of a prestigious international environmental prize has been attacked at a meeting with community...