Guillermo Galdos , Latin America Correspondent

Despite the claims of the Democrats, the relative calm on the southern border is more because of a campaign of cartel violence than the tough measures passed by President Biden.

The number of forest fires in Brazil has reached record levels – smothering cities and choking the Amazon.

In Venezuela the country’s political opposition has been taking to the streets to denounce the results of last month’s election.

In the decades since Pablo Escobar’s death, the city of Medellin has transformed into a global tourism hot-spot and is now Colombia’s Sin City.

To Venezuela now, where opposition politicians are urging the police and armed forces to abandon President Nicolas Maduro – nine days after he claimed the most dubious of election victories. 

When Venezuelans go to the polls this week, Nicolas Maduro could well secure a third term as President despite the growing economic crisis which has left much of the country in poverty or destitution.

Fentanyl is killing more Americans than ever. It’s blamed for more than 70 thousand fatal overdoses each year. 

Ecuador used to be one of Latin America’s most peaceful countries – but in the last few years it descended into chaos as Mexican drug cartels started to move cocaine through its ports and recruit local affiliates. In recent weeks, two major gang leaders escaped from prison – reigniting a turf war that has left…

More than 300 people have been arrested for alleged acts of terrorism.

The attacks have followed the escape from jail of one of Ecuador’s most dangerous drug lords.

Voters in Argentina are heading to the polls today in a general election. It’s taking place amid a challenging situation for the country with inflation running at 140 per cent and spiralling poverty. All eyes are on Javier Milei, a Donald Trump-admiring libertarian who’s hoping to attract disillusioned supporters away from Argentina’s main parties.  He…

Presidential elections in Ecuador are going to a run off – after no candidate managed to get enough votes in the first round to be declared the winner.

Our Latin America correspondent Guillermo Galdos, has travelled to a settlement near the town of Puerto Breu, deep in the Amazon near Peru’s border with Brazil to discover what happens when the modern world makes contact.

Peru has suffered by far the worst covid death toll of any country in the world per capita – and it’s currently battling another deadly disease. 

We travelled the treacherous human trail to the United States called the Darien Gap.