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Costa Rica presidential candidate Laura Fernandez in Heredia, Costa Rica, January 29, 2026.​
Analysis

Costa Rica’s crime-time election

In yet another Latin American election shaped by concerns about security and violence, Costa Ricans will vote for president this Sunday.

​Supporters of Jose Antonio Kast, presidential candidate of the far-right Republican Party, at one of Kast's last closing campaign rallies in Santiago, Chile, on November 11, 2025.
Analysis

After a season of upheavals, Chile goes back to the polls

This Sunday, close to 16 million Chilean voters will head to the polls in a starkly polarized presidential election shaped by rising fears of crime and immigration.

Venezuela's opposition leader: Maduro's regime "is not a conventional dictatorship
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Venezuela's opposition leader: Maduro's regime "is not a conventional dictatorship

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado lays out why the Nicolás Maduro regime is anything but a conventional dictatorship.

Masked person standing near LED sign.
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Europol warns of AI-powered organized crime

Europol issued a warning Tuesday about organized crime groups increasingly using artificial intelligence to power their criminal operations.

​Supporters hold cardboard cutouts of Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa, days before the Ecuadorian presidential election, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Feb. 4, 2025.
Viewpoint

Viewpoint: With his reelection bid, Ecuador’s Noboa seeks more time to bring violence under control

Ecuadorians head to the polls on Sunday, Feb. 9, to choose their next president against a backdrop of spiraling violence similar to that of the last presidential election in 2023.

​FILE PHOTO: Parts of a ghost gun kit are on display at an event held by U.S. President Joe Biden to announce measures to fight ghost gun crime, at the White House in Washington U.S., April 11, 2022.
What We're Watching

The Supreme Court takes aim at “ghost guns”

The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule on a challenge to the Biden administration’s efforts to crack down on untraceable “ghost guns.”

​FILE PHOTO: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (left), President of Mexico, and Justin Trudeau (right), Prime Minister of Canada, are delivering a message to the media at the National Palace in Mexico City,on January 10, 2023, on the occasion of their meeting with Joe Biden, President of the United States, at the 10th North American Leaders' Summit, where they are discussing migration, economic and drug trafficking issues.
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Will Trudeau bring back visas for Mexican visitors?

Justin Trudeau said last week that Canada is in talks with Mexico to try to find ways to cut down on the number of asylum-seekers flying into Canada with the help of organized criminal groups.