Guillermo Galdos , Latin America Correspondent

It was a policy that shocked the world – thousands of children separated from their parents as part of President Trump’s anti immigration crackdown at the US Mexican border.

Once viewed as the success story of Latin American democracy, with a strong economy, in the last few weeks Chile has seen almost daily street protests and a return to police violence unseen since the end of dictatorship three decades ago.

A young indigenous anti-logging activist has been shot dead in the Brazilian Amazon. Paulo Paulino Guajajara’s tribe said he was ambushed by illegal loggers while out hunting. Another tribesman was injured. Both were members of a local group formed to combat the threat of illegal logging gangs pillaging the rainforest. The Brazilian Justice Minister said…

Police in Mexico have been forced to release a man wanted on drugs charges after a huge street battle with cartel gunmen.

While the fires in the Brazilian Amazon have made headlines across the world for the past weeks, in neighbouring Bolivia fires have also been raging.

The Brazilian government has banned most land clearing for 60 days, in an attempt to stop the fires which have devastated parts of the Amazon rainforest.But another drain on natural resources there – and one far less reported – is mining, especially illegal gold mining.

Brazil could potentially accept $22m in aid to fight the Amazon wildfires, but there is a caveat.

Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, said his country was being treated like a colony. 

What’s happened to the families who got caught up in President Trump’s zero tolerance policy at the border? The hundreds of parents who were separated from their children and deported without them? In the second of his special reports, we revisited one Guatemalan mother who was sent home without her family.

There’s a reason why so many thousands of people are so desperate that they’re fleeing everything they know in the hope of a safer life. And it’s the surge in gang violence which has made Latin America the world’s most dangerous region outside a war zone, with 43 of the 50 most violent cities across…

It’s been described as the worst refugee crisis in recent Latin American history – the majority of those fleeing Venezuela have crossed into neighbouring Colombia, and then on to Ecuador, Peru and Chile. Others have gone south to Brazil. Concerned by the influx, these countries are imposing tighter border restrictions. Channel 4 News’ Guilllermo Galdos went to Peru where migrants will require…

It’s an ancient medicine that’s been a way of life for Amazon communities for thousands of years. But Ayahuasca has also become increasingly popular with tourists, eager to seek out its hallucinogenic and healing properties.

We have following two people who, with tens of thousands of others, are so desperate to flee the danger and destruction in their homelands, they risk everything in the attempt to make it to the United States on the ‘El tren de la muerte’ – the Death Train. When President Trump introduced tough new policies to stop migrants…

Another place that’s felt the cold wind of President Trump’s threatened trade wars is the US’s neighbour, Mexico. A new president has been elected there. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known by his initials as AMLO, is a populist. That’s where the similarities with his counterpart north of the border end. He’s a left winger who’s…

The fury of Guatemala’s Mount Fuego volcano has not fallen silent yet. This weekend it released another flow of burning debris and rock, a week after the eruption which left at least 110 people dead and thousands of homes destroyed. Some families are so desperate to find out what’s happened to their missing relatives that…