Jhon Viáfara is extradited to Texas accused of being a members of a major drugs cartel. […]

Speaking to the BBC's Mishal Husain in Davos, Colombia's president has called for free elections in Venezuela. […]

Killings by police in the Brazilian state hit a record high amid hardline measures to tackle crime. […]

In this year's Sao Paulo Junior Football Cup - a competition for Brazilian under-20 football teams - there are 11 players named after Argentina legend Juan Roman Riquelme. […]

Juan Guaidó declared himself acting president last year but has failed to dislodge Nicolás Maduro. […]

Seventeen big cats rescued from Guatemalan circuses have moved to a South African wildlife sanctuary. […]

Brazil's army of fruit workers speak of struggling with low pay and dangerous working conditions. […]

Central components of the Pre-Columbian sweat lodge are still intact, archaeologists say. […]

Homero Gómez, who manages a monarch butterfly sanctuary in Michoacán, was last seen on 13 January. […]

The opposition leader, widely recognised as Venezuela's interim president, is on a visit to the UK. […]

At least 250 people died a year ago when a dam owned by Vale collapsed in Minas Gerais state. […]

Pallets of diapers, heaters, water, and other unused emergency aid were found in a warehouse. […]

Chiplyn Burton was denied entry back into the UK after a trip to Jamaica in the 1970s. […]

The BBC has brought together two men in their nineties who came to Britain from Jamaica in 1948 on the Empire Windrush. […]

Footballer Emiliano Sala messaged a friend saying he felt forced out by his French club days before he died. […]

One year has passed since Emiliano Sala's death in a plane crash. His family in the small rural town of Progreso, Argentina, are still suffering. […]

People living at the foot of a volcano in Ecuador are being taught what to do if disaster strikes […]

The number of multi-racial people in the US is on the rise. But the experience comes with struggles. […]

Ayahuasca's psychedelic powers are attracting more and more tourists. But the scene appears to have a dark side. […]