Santiago de Chile - Changing patterns of climate variability and extreme weather events are negatively affecting all dimensions of food security and

The phenomenon is expected to last until April, with more humidity in Central America and northern South America, and more droughts in the center and south of the region

The Trump administration has a narrow window of opportunity to change course and counter Chinese influence in Latin America.

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 Caribbean. The selection was curated by AP photographer Esteban Félix,

The World Bank’s report, "The Quality of Jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean", examines job quality across the region using the Job Quality Index (JQI). It highlights significant disparities in employment conditions both between and within countries.

Many people in Latin America and the Caribbean live in poverty. Wealth often stays with a few powerful families. Big companies take natural resources but

A new subsea Internet cable could connect Antarctica with Chile. Chile’s Undersecretariat of Telecommunications is working with the regional government in Magallanes, the country’s southernmost province, and CAF, the development bank for Latin America and the Caribbean, to launch a feasibility study into setting up the cable route.

Marriott International is expanding into the Caribbean and Latin America with eight new hotels in Argentina, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Peru.

City Express, part of Marriott Bonvoy’s portfolio of over 30 brands, announced its planned entry into four new markets across

The benefits of payments digitisation to various stakeholders, such as consumers, SMEs, and governments, are well known. Looking ahead, Mastercard sees a great opportunity in engaging both private and public sectors to reduce cash usage and drive inclusion through digital payments via the following initiatives:

Colombia isn’t the first nation to have materially countered Trump’s deportation plans. Still, its tiff with the U.S. is indicative of some lesser-known trade entanglements between North and South America—and of the potential for the Trump administration to hurt Americans’ pocketbooks in its craven pursuit of mass deportations.

Venezuela boasts of having the largest oil reserves on the planet, and a massive exodus of its people means that there are almost eight million fewer mouths to feed, but still some five million Venezuelans are going hungry in the country,