Carrie Kahn

The Summit of the Americas has a long history of being kind of messy. This year's summit in Los Angeles seems quite likely to follow suit.

The Biden administration declined to invite Cuba to this week's Summit of the Americas. Free speech advocates point to a crackdown in Cuba that heightens surveillance and stifles dissent.

More Cubans are leaving the country than ever before. Cuba is facing its worst economic downturn in decades.

Tourists — one of the mainstays of the Cuban economy — are returning, but the recovery is slow and some say mismanaged.

Will the U.S. be able to salvage the remnants of the Summit of the Americas? And what does the growing boycott mean for U.S. influence in Latin America?

Tourists, one of the mainstays of the Cuban economy, are returning. But the recovery is slow, and some say mismanaged.

Mexico marks a grim milestone: The number of people officially listed as disappeared now exceeds 100,000. Many are victims of drug cartels, journalists, human rights advocates and Indigenous people.

The White House announced it will lift some of the Trump era restriction on travel and remittances on Cubans. Hit hard by COVID and other missteps, the Cuban economy is barely functioning for many.

Officials from the U.S. and Cuba are talking as migration from the island increases.

Inflation isn't just an American problem — it's happening in places around the world and stretching some countries to the point of political unrest.Many

Mexico's president called a recall vote on himself this weekend and won, though most Mexicans did not participate and opponents say it was too costly.

While recalls are a common political tool, normally it's the opponents of an unpopular leader who favor a recall. But Sunday's referendum is the president's own idea. And he's expected to win.

Mexico's president has set a recall election for Sunday on his own term in office. He's expected to win what critics say is an act of political theater.

El Salvador's president has responded to gang violence with a sweeping campaign of arrests that raise questions about whether he's violating human rights.

A Nicaraguan ambassador openly criticized his boss, President Daniel Ortega, saying the Central American country has become a dictatorship.

The president of El Salvador has instituted special emergency powers to crack down on gang violence.

After a weekend of intense gang violence with scores of killings, El Salvador's president declared emergency powers that some worry he could use to squelch political opposition.

International experts say they have new evidence that the Mexican government falsified evidence about the abduction and disappearance of 43 students nearly eight years ago.

After making the cryptocurrency legal tender, President Nayib Bukele plans to launch bitcoin-backed bonds to raise $1 billion for the country.

El Salvador's president is taking a billion-dollar risk on Bitcoin — with the country's treasury. Among the plans: a crypto trade zone near a dormant volcano.