Vanessa Buschschlüter

Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News X/@ClaraBrugadaM A gunman has shot dead two top aides of the mayor of Mexico City, Clara Brugada. The mayor’s private secretary, Ximena Guzmán, and Brugada’s adviser, José Muñoz, were killed on their way to work on […]

Seven Mexican youths have been shot dead at a festivity organised by the Catholic Church in the central state of Guanajuato. Gunmen opened fire on a group of people who had stayed behind in the central square of the village

Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News MARCO ANTONIO PEREZ/AFP via Getty Images) Mexicans are mourning the death of two young Navy cadets who were killed on Saturday when the training tall ship ARM Cuauhtémoc crashed into Brooklyn Bridge. América Sánchez, 20, and

Police in Mexico have arrested a retired judge accused of tampering with evidence related to the disappearance of 43 students from Iguala more than a decade ago. Lambertina Galeana Marín was the president of the Superior Tribunal of Justice in

The prime minister of Peru, Gustavo Adrianzén, has resigned hours before he was due to face a no-confidence vote in Congress. Members of Peru’s Congress had called for the no-confidence vote after the recent kidnap and killing of 13 mine

Crates containing documents from Nazi Germany have been rediscovered in the basement of Argentina’s Supreme Court. The unusual find was made as workers were clearing the building’s basement ahead of its archives being moved to a newly created museum. The

A flight carrying 199 Venezuelans deported from the US to their homeland has landed at Simón Bolívar airport near Caracas. US repatriation flights to Venezuela had ground to a halt weeks ago after the Trump administration revoked a licence allowing

Following two days of sometimes violent protests, Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo has withdrawn a decree which would have made car insurance compulsory in the Central American nation. Under the new law, owners of cars, lorries, buses and motorbikes would have

An Italian fugitive accused of having coordinated the shipment of large cocaine cargoes from Latin America to Europe has been arrested in Colombia. Colombia’s national police chief described Emanuele Gregorini, who is also known as “Dollarino”, as “the head of

Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Reuters Thousands of people had to make their way home after the Viña del Mar festival was suspended More than eight million households across Chile were left without power on Tuesday afternoon after an electricity transmission