Julie Turkewitz

After facing down the general who tried to oust him, President Luis Arce is battling a more formidable figure, Evo Morales, a former president who wants to reclaim power.

The general declared he was leading an effort to “re-establish democracy,” but he and other members of the armed forces later pulled back after trying to storm the presidential palace.

Four former officials in the government of President Nicolás Maduro describe his options between now and an election that could remove him from power — or solidify his grip.

After the Hernández sisters served breakfast to an opposition leader, the government shut down their restaurant. Then came an outpouring of support.

President Nicolás Maduro has held on to power by holding sham elections. In July he will run again, but would he willingly cede power?

Ecuador’s raid of Mexico’s embassy shows how foreign policy is often driven by personal politics, not national interest.

The former vice president, Jorge Glas, had taken pills, the police said, and was taken to a hospital. He had taken refuge at the embassy after being accused of corruption.

Jorge Glas, a former vice president, had taken refuge at the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador’s capital. Mexico’s president called his arrest a violation of international law.

Plus, the dangers of the Darién Gap.

Robbery and rape have long been a risk for migrants crossing the Darién Gap, but recently, there has been a sharp rise in sexual violence directed at women and girls. Julie Turkewitz and Federico Rios of The New York Times captured a snapshot of that violence, speaking with 14 women who said they had experienced sexual violence, ranging from forcible touching to rape.

The New York Times interviewed more than 70 people who said they had been victims of armed robbery. Fourteen were women who said they had suffered sexual violence.

The announcement that Corina Yoris would run came as a surprise to many who had feared that a fractured opposition would benefit President Nicolás Maduro.

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The treacherous migrant crossing in Panama is drawing packs of American activists who are distorting how immigration is perceived, and debated, at home.

On Friday, boat companies began operating in Colombia after a five-day pause, allowing migrants to once again make their way through the notorious jungle terrain and continue toward the U.S. border.

Two centuries after independence from Spain, many Colombians still use “sumercé,” meaning “your mercy” as an everyday address.

Boat operators suspended migrant crossings after Colombia arrested two captains. The Biden administration has asked Colombia to do more to stem the flow of people bound for the U.S. border.

The agency has 72 hours to leave the country, marking a “drastic hardening” of conditions inside the South American nation.

The detention of Rocío San Miguel, and her disappearance for many days, has Venezuelan human right activists concerned that they have entered a new era of repression.

Flights sending Venezuelans back to their homeland have not taken off for two weeks. The move could be a setback to President Biden’s effort to tackle a migration surge.

An increasing number of migrants are trying to pass through the dangerous terrain connecting South and Central America. What forces them to take that route?

TikTok, Facebook and YouTube are transforming global migration, becoming tools of migrants and smugglers alike.

Trekking the perilous Darién Gap and seeking asylum are risks worth taking for migrants from China who have lost hope in the country’s future.

More than 24,000 Chinese citizens have been apprehended crossing into the United States from Mexico in the past year. That is more than in the preceding 10 years combined.

Chile and Colombia said they were recalling their ambassadors to Israel in light of the strikes.

After surviving a perilous jungle, a mother and daughter obeyed the president’s plea to enter the United States legally. 341 days later, they’re still waiting.

The release of political prisoners and the lifting of some U.S. sanctions comes as Venezuela’s opposition prepares to elect a candidate to challenge the country’s leader.

The agreement signed on Tuesday by the country’s authoritarian government and the opposition would not allow all candidates to run.

Mayor Eric Adams traveled to three countries to discourage migrants from coming to New York. At each stop, people said they were still determined to make the trek.

Unable to build safe or stable lives in other parts of South America, many people are making the perilous journey to the United States.

A sudden surge of people from around the globe is showing up at the southern border, despite dangers and deportations. ‘If you don’t take risks, you cannot win,’ said one man who traveled from Peru.

The surge of migrants trekking north mostly from South America has placed increasing pressure on Mexico as the country applies a range of tactics to quell arrivals.

Migrants and advocates say that some people who have been waiting months for the opportunity to enter the U.S. legally have grown impatient and are willing to take a risk.

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The Biden administration vowed to “end the illicit movement” of people through the Darién jungle. But the number of migrants moving through the forest has never been greater — and the profits are too big to pass up.

The killing of Fernando Villavicencio marks a grim turning point for a once-tranquil country now awash in violence fueled by drug gangs.

The candidate, Fernando Villavicencio, had been vocal about ties between the state and organized crime, in a country roiled by violence tied to drug trafficking.

Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, the trafficker known as Otoniel, was extradited and pleaded guilty to running a paramilitary group that sent tons of cocaine north.

The Biden administration’s new asylum policy, which a judge blocked this week, has contributed to a plunge in illegal border crossings at the southern U.S. border.

In Ecuador, an intelligence official said: “People consume abroad, but they don’t understand the consequences that take place here.”

Colombia’s Indigenous Guard has long had to fight for a space in the national narrative. Today, it is at the center of the country’s biggest story.

The father of two of the survivors said the family had feared the children would be recruited by a violent armed group.

I’m The Times’s Andes bureau chief. Here are five things I've been watching, reading and listening to.

For thousands of Afghans, the American withdrawal from Kabul was just the beginning of a long, dangerous search for safety.

President Guillermo Lasso disbanded the National Assembly as the opposition-led body was trying to oust him on embezzlement charges.

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Una serie de crisis, como un desempleo récord, estallidos de violencia y la invasión rusa a Ucrania, ha sumido a millones de latinoamericanos en el hambre y la desesperación.

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The United States is trying to curtail border crossings as a Covid-era immigration policy lifts this week, but it has little control over the crises in Latin America that have upended the lives of millions.

Juan Guaidó said that he crossed the border into Colombia, but was put on a plane to the United States hours later.

Brazil has been reluctant about choosing sides in the war, as its new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, seeks to rebuild the country’s ties with Beijing.

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After years of extreme scarcity, some Venezuelans lead lives of luxury as others scrape by. The nation of grinding hardship has increasingly become one of haves and have-nots.

A New York Times investigation found that the country’s police and military fired lethal ammunition at unarmed civilians during protests in December and January.

In an interview, Foreign Minister Ana Cecilia Gervasi acknowledged “we don’t have any evidence” that weeks of protests were being driven by criminal groups, though she maintained proof would be found.

An increasing number of migrants are trying to pass through the dangerous terrain connecting South and Central America. What forces them to take that route?

Weeks after the ouster of a leftist president, persistent protests and a mounting death toll have exacerbated widespread disillusionment with the country’s young democracy.

“What happened yesterday was really a massacre,” said one human rights activist.

The lawmaker may soon be voted out of power by the opposition, which no longer sees his interim government as a path to “real political change” against the country’s authoritarian government.

In Cusco, the gateway to Machu Picchu and other ancient sites, tourist operators and hotel owners fear what the loss of visitors means for their livelihood.

Confrontations between protesters and the Peruvian authorities have left at least 25 dead and hundreds injured. Nowhere may tensions be higher than in the highland city of Ayacucho.

Eight days after Pedro Castillo’s removal from office and arrest, thousands of his supporters have joined protests demanding his reinstatement. To them, he is the voice of the marginalized.

The measure suspended some civil rights, including the freedom of assembly, and deepens a crisis set off when the elected president was impeached by Congress last week.

At least six people have been killed in violence that has spread across the country following last week’s impeachment of Pedro Castillo after he tried to dissolve Congress.

Ms. Boluarte, the country’s first woman president, ascended to power suddenly, after her predecessor was arrested. She takes office as corruption and discontent test democracies across Latin America.

The license, limited in scope, was issued amid the resumption of talks between the Venezuelan government and opposition, and comes as President Nicolás Maduro desperately needs to improve the economy.

Negotiations between the Venezuelan government and opposition could lead to an easing of the country’s protracted crisis.

Julie Turkewitz, The Times’s Andes bureau chief, and Federico Rios, a photographer, recently traveled the 70-mile migrant route in the Darién Gap.

The president says oil is his economy’s worst addiction. Phasing it out would be a global first for a major oil producer.

The pandemic, climate change and growing conflict are forcing a seismic shift in global migration. In few places is that more clear than a perilous crossing called the Darién Gap.

Colombia’s new president met with his Venezuelan counterpart, a milestone in the move by leftist leaders in Latin America to ease the isolation of Nicolás Maduro’s government in Caracas.

They have sold their belongings and trekked across a deadly jungle. Now, tens of thousands Venezuelan migrants are stranded south of the United States, with nowhere to go.

Two crises are converging at the perilous land bridge known as the Darién Gap: the economic and humanitarian disaster underway in South America, and the bitter fight over immigration policy in Washington.

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Invented by formerly enslaved people, viche, a cane sugar liquor, was long banned, a sort of Colombian moonshine. Now, it’s a symbol of the country’s often ignored Afro-Colombian culture.

More than a fifth of Venezuela’s population has fled the country, and critics said the move by Republican governors to ship migrants to other states would not dissuade others from leaving.

Decisions to bus migrants to the vice president’s residence and to fly others to Martha’s Vineyard were the latest attempts to provoke outrage over record arrivals at the border.

Neither Russia nor Ukraine appeared to be pausing attacks in the south, even as talks continued over allowing international inspectors to visit the Zaporizhzhia power plant.

One of the world’s largest sustainable development agencies has worked with energy companies to quash opposition and keep oil flowing, even in sensitive areas.

The wardrobe of Francia Márquez, Colombia’s first Black vice president, is the creation of a young designer at the center of an Afro-Colombian fashion explosion.

All six of the region’s largest economies could soon be run by presidents elected on leftist platforms. Their challenge? Inflation, war in Europe and growing poverty at home.

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Its report estimates that 450,000 people were killed in the decades-long internal conflict — more than twice the number previously thought.