This victory led to the establishment of Latin America’s first independent republic ... and the largest island in the Caribbean soon became the object of U.S. interest due to its strategic ...

Compared with East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean have made very little progress in reducing poverty rates since the 1980s, largely because of sluggish growth. Nearly 36 percent of the ...

Almost two thirds of people that we surveyed for the latest Global Corruption Barometer, People and Corruption: Latin America and the Caribbean, said that corruption had risen in the 12 months prior ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the ...