Colombia to vote in the first presidential ballot since the 2016 peace deal with the former guerrillas. Opinion polls put 41-year-old senator Ivan Duque as the favouirite, buoyed by support from hardline ex-president Álvaro Uribe.
Venezuelan officials have declared socialist leader Nicolás Maduro the winner of Sunday’s presidential election. Maduro’s leading challenger has questioned the legitimacy of the vote and called for new balloting.
Venezuela’s opposition last week called for a boycott of the May 20 election, which the late Hugo Chávez’s successor looks likely to win in the absence of any real challenge to his authority
The killing of two youngsters has shone a light on the growing number of murders in Uruguay. There were 147 in the first four months of the year, data shows, compared with 81 in the same period in 2017 -- an increase of more than 80%.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega remained under pressure on Monday despite backing down on a contentious pension reform plan that triggered four days of violence in which 24 people were killed.
The April 19 hand-off was the centrepiece of a broader transition to a group of leaders from the lost generation, who face an unprecedented test of their ability to guide a nation that has followed the same commandantes for 60 years.
Robert Cox
James Neilson
Andrew Graham-Yooll
Carolina Barros
Michael Soltys
James Grainger
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