María Corina Machado emerged from a Panama summit pushing U.S.-backed talks, new elections and her own presidential bid.

Guatemala has agreed to allow joint U.S. military strikes against drug trafficking groups, marking a major escalation in Washington’s regional campaign against cartels.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado holds a national flag as she speaks to Venezuelan diaspora during a rally in Panama City on May 23, 2026. Machado is visiting Panama as part of a ...

Institutions Western democracies built to constrain authoritarian regimes are, through capture and corruption, now performing those regimes' political work.

Colombia is set to elect a new president and vice president in a vote Sunday seen as a referendum on President Gustavo ...

In these notes, we address South America, where the complexity of societies, scandalous socioeconomic inequality, the ...

It’s unclear whether prosecutors had implicated Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez in any crimes or whether ...

The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into ...

You can’t call yourself independent when you’re being funded specifically by a government,” Hillel Neuer of UN Watch told JNS ...

The Cuban people are inspired by the example of resilience shown by the defenders of the Brest Fortress and the Belarusian ...

Israel’s defenders have warned for years that the United Nations, an institution that lectures democracies while shielding ...

Colombia is set to elect a new president and vice president on May 31. The election is seen as a referendum on President Gustavo Petro’s policies. Petro, a former guerrilla fighter, has ...