Latin America

The trial alleged Honduran drug trafficker, Geovanny Fuentes, begins on Monday and implicates the country's president, Juan Orlando Hernández. Fuentes ran his own cocaine laboratory and controlled crucial territory along the north coast of Honduras, according to court filings, dozens of interviews with confidential sources and classified documents obtained exclusively by Univision. (Leer en español)

US Senators introduce bill to impose sanctions on president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, for alleged drug trafficking ties. The bill also seeks restoration of UN anti-corruption mission in Honduras.

Exhausted by the Trump trial? In this episode of Real America a group of indigenous women, Las Cholitas Escaladoras, climb a snowy mountain summit in Bolivia to raise awareness about violence against women.

On Sunday, Ecuador will hold its general elections for President and National Assembly. Analysts will be watching closely to see if populist candidates are swept back to power in the midst of a deep, covid-fueled, regional economic crisis. (Leer en español)

Since 2015, many parents have decided to leave Venezuela without their children. By 2020, an estimated 800,000 children were left with their mothers or grandparents. The exodus is likely to continue while the economic crisis escalates.

Instead of funding a border wall, Biden will once again take a more diplomatic approach to Latin America, with an accent on corruption and climate change.

Latin America’s on-again off-again relationship with democracy could offer some helpful insights to the United States, which is about to begin its own precarious trek back up the weedy embankment towards the path to democracy.

President Juan Orlando Hernandez allegedly sought access to a cocaine lab run by Geovanny Fuentes, an accused drug trafficker who is due to go on trial in New York in March.

As Biden has begun to assemble his foreign policy and national security team, some clues have emerged about the route he will take. Everything indicates more diplomacy and less belligerence. (Leer en español)

In 1998, the world came to the rescue of Honduras and Nicaragua after Hurricane Mitch. Now, 22 years later, the needs are almost the same but political corruption may undermine international generosity, analysts warn. (Leer en español)