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Firefighters battle wildfires in Los Alerces National Park, Argentina, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
Argentina fires ravage pristine Patagonia forests, fueling criticism of Milei’s austerity
Argentina’s Patagonia region is battling severe wildfires, with vast areas of Los Alerces National Park ablaze.
 
Hybrid and electric vehicles shipped from China are unloaded from the BYD Changzhou car carrier docked at Terminal Zarate, in Argentina's Buenos Aires province, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
Flooded by cheap Chinese goods, Latin America is fighting back to protect its industries
China is flooding Latin American markets with low-priced exports, especially autos and e-commerce goods.
 
The BYD Changzhou car carrier is docked at Terminal Zarate in the Buenos Aires province of Argentina, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, where hybrid and electric vehicles shipped from China are parked next to the ship. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
As Trump talks tariffs, his ally Milei welcomes a first shipload of Chinese EVs
The vast field of over 5,800 electric and hybrid vehicles gleamed on the cargo deck of the BYD Changzhou, an Chinese container vessel unloading Wednesday at a river port in eastern Argentina.
 
Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino, from left, Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz, European Council President Antonio Costa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Paraguay's President Santiago Pena, Argentina's President Javier Milei, Uruguay's President Yamandu Orsi and Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mauro Vieira, pose for a group photo during a meeting to sign a free trade deal between the European Union and Mercosur in Asuncion, Paraguay, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
European Union and Mercosur bloc of South American nations sign landmark free trade agreement
The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries have formally signed a long-sought landmark free trade agreement.
 
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks at the Heritage Foundation, an influential conservative think tank, a day after meeting with President Donald Trump and members of Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Venezuelan opposition leader is confident about return of democracy but says little of her plans
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she’s confident of her country’s eventual transition to democracy after the U.S. military ousted former President Nicolás Maduro.
 
A worker moves cattle at the Agricultural and Livestock Market in Canuelas, Argentina, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
The EU and Mercosur build one of the world’s biggest free-trade zones
Against tough odds, the European Union and four key South American countries are closer than they’ve been in 25 years to signing a long-delayed free trade deal.
 
Maria Alexandra Gomez, girlfriend of detained Argentine officer Nahuel Agustin Gallo, stands with their son Victor during a gathering of friends and relatives of people detained in Venezuela at a community center where they wait for news of their loved ones' release in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, after Venezuelan authorities said the they would release Venezuelan and foreign prisoners. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
An Argentine court offers hope for Venezuelans seeking justice for abuses under Maduro
Venezuela’s sudden release of detainees brought relief and guarded optimism to a country consumed by uncertainty.
 
Colombian President Gustavo Petro addresses supporters in a rally he called to protest comments by U.S. President Donald Trump, in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)
President Petro’s clash with Trump over Venezuela backs Colombia into a corner
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s actions against Venezuela.
 
President Donald Trump waves as he arrives on Air Force One, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
US capture of Maduro divides a changed region, thrilling Trump’s allies and threatening his foes
The U.S. capture and ouster of Venezuelan strongman leader Nicolás Maduro marked a stunning culmination of the Trump administration’s efforts to assert dominance in Latin America.
 
Venezuelan Vice President and Oil Minister Delcy Rodriguez gives a press conference at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
Delcy Rodríguez becomes Venezuela’s interim president after Maduro’s ouster
Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez has taken the place of her ally President Nicolás Maduro who was captured by the United States in a nighttime military operation.
 
A supporter of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stands on a median strip waving a national flag in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Venezuelans wonder who’s in charge as Trump claims contact with Maduro’s deputy
Venezuelans are trying to understand who is in charge after the United States announced the capture of President Nicolás Maduro.
 
Supporters listen to Presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast, of the opposition Republican Party, delivering his victory speech after winning the presidential runoff election in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Conservative Kast’s victory in Chile suggests a hard-right, pro-Trump surge across Latin America
Chile has become the latest country in Latin America to veer toward the right, electing a deeply conservative veteran politician who has long attracted comparisons to Donald Trump.
 
Presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast, of the opposition Republican Party, and his wife Maria Pia Adriasola wave to supporters after winning the presidential runoff election in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Landslide win for Kast gives Chile its most right-wing president in decades
Chile’s ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast has secured a stunning victory in the presidential election, defeating the candidate of the center-left governing coalition and setting the stage for the country’s most right-wing government in 35 years of democracy.
 
Karen Rivas, a Mapuche political scientist, poses outside of her home in Pedro Cayuqueo, Chile, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
After centuries of conflict, Chile’s Indigenous Mapuches fear a far-right political turn
The Mapuches have endured centuries of battle. They are Chile’s biggest Indigenous group who make up roughly 12% of the country’s 19 million people.
 
Supporters of Presidential candidate Jeannette Jara of the Unidad por Chile coalition attend a rally ahead of the presidential runoff election in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Chileans are divided in a presidential runoff tilted toward the far right
Chile is heading into a high-stakes presidential runoff defined by sharply contrasting visions of the country’s recent past and visions for its future.
 
Bolivia's President Luis Arce listens to questions during a press conference at the presidential palace in La Paz, Bolivia, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)
Former Bolivian President Arce arrested in corruption investigation a month after leaving office
Bolivian law enforcement officials have arrested former President Luis Arce as part of a corruption investigation, opening an uncertain new chapter in Bolivia’s politics just a month after the inauguration of conservative President Rodrigo Paz ended 20 years of socialist rule.
 
Maximiliano Rivero holds up his pet Manola at a Palermo neighborhood park as people try to set a world record of most Golden Retrievers gathered in a park, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
This is what happens when 2,397 golden retrievers gather in an Argentina park
A passerby could hear the cacophony from miles away. It was the unmistakable sound of hundreds of dogs barking — and breaking the unofficial world record for the largest-ever gathering of golden retrievers.
 
Park ranger José Vallejos stands next to petrified dinosaurs footprints in Carreras Pampa in Toro Toro National Park, north of Potosi, Bolivia, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
16,000 fossil footprints in central Bolivia reveal dinosaur behavior
Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters — capable of sinking their claws even into solid rock.
 
Argentine President Javier Milei, right, and General Secretary of the Presidency Karina Milei, his sister, cheer for their party's lawmakers during the swearing-in ceremony for newly elected legislators at Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Argentina’s President Milei to issue a dollar bond, eyeing a return to global markets
The libertarian government of Argentina’s President Javier Milei has announced that it will issue a dollar bond for the first time in nearly eight years as the cash-strapped country seeks a return to international markets.
 
Radio antennas are spread out on the terrain as part of one of the world's largest astronomy projects, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chajnator in the Atacama desert in northern Chile, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)
Renowned astronomers push to protect Chile’s cherished night sky from an industrial project
Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of the universe in this inhospitable desert along the Pacific coast.
 
A retired military officer holds an Argentine flag in front of the presidential palace during a protest demanding the release of former servicemen accused of human rights violations during the last dictatorship, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Dictatorship-era army officers and supporters rally in Argentina in latest sign of political shift
Ex-military officers who served in Argentina’s brutal dictatorship and their families have staged a rare rally to push for the release of fellow officers imprisoned for human rights abuses committed during the junta’s 1976-1983 rule.
 
Chilean presidential candidate Franco Parisi waves upon arriving to take part in a presidential debate, in Santiago, Chile, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Chile’s power broker says he won’t endorse communist or far-right rival for president
As Chileans prepare to vote in a presidential runoff between a communist and a hard-right veteran politician, the man who has emerged as the election’s biggest power broker has refused to support either candidate.
 
Presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast of the Republican Party, and his wife Maria Pia Adriasola, wave to supporters after early results in the general elections in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Chile’s most polarized presidential race in decades boosts the right and divides immigrants
Chileans face perhaps the starkest choice in the history of their country’s young democracy when they vote next month in a presidential runoff between hard-right José Antonio Kast and communist Jeannette Jara.
 
Presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast of the Republican Party, addresses supporters after early results in the general elections in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristobal Escobar)
Hard-right former lawmaker José Antonio Kast leads in Chile’s polarizing presidential runoff
In Chile, a hard-right former lawmaker and admirer of U.S. President Donald Trump is leading in the presidential runoff.
 
Presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast of the Republican Party, addresses supporters after early results in the general elections in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristobal Escobar)
Chile’s presidential race heads to a runoff between a communist and a pro-Trump conservative
Chile is bracing for a tense presidential runoff after a first-round vote on Sunday set up a showdown between a member of the Communist Party and an ultraconservative veteran politician, sharply polarizing the country between the political left and right.
 
From left, presidential candidates Franco Parisi of the Party of the People, Jeannette Jara of the Unidad por Chile coalition, Marco Enriquez-Ominami of the Progressive Party, Johannes Kaiser of the National Libertarian Party, Jose Antonio Kast of the Republican Party, Eduardo Artes of the Proletarian Action Party, Evelyn Matthei of the Chile Vamos coalition and Independent Harold Mayne-Nicholls gesture prior to a debate ahead of the November general elections, in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Fears over migration and crime push Chile’s presidential race to the right
A surge in organized crime from Venezuela and other countries in recent years has reshaped Chilean politics.
 
People gather among debris near a bridge in Black River, Jamaica, Oct. 30, 2025, in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
Climate summit hears from countries suffering from harms, destruction linked to global warming
Officials from countries most vulnerable to global warming offered vivid dispatches of life on the front line of the climate crisis Friday as world leaders gathered on the edge of the imperiled Amazon rainforest.
 
FAn aerial view of fshing boats in the port of the Caju Una community, Marajo Island, Para state, Brazil, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Brazil stumps up billions of dollars for its ambitious rainforest fund at UN climate summit
Brazil has unveiled long-awaited details about a plan to pay countries to preserve their tropical forests and announced it had already drawn $5.5 billion in financial pledges.
 
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres listens to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's speech at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit in Belem, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
At UN climate summit, world leaders say time is running short to stop the worst effects of warming
World leaders are gathering in a coastal city in the Brazilian Amazon for the U.N.'s annual climate summit.
 
Argentina's President Javier Milei celebrates after winning in legislative midterm elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Argentina’s chief of staff resigns, heralding change for President Milei after election win
The chief of staff to President Javier Milei of Argentina has resigned, less than a week after the governing party won a new mandate to accelerate his program of radical reform in pivotal midterm elections.
 
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