News of migration

Chile follows Latin American neighbours in lurching right

16-12-2025 07:49 Leftist leaders have not won a single presidential election in Latin America this year as voters opt for change.

Elections in Honduras

Trump intervenes in Honduras election, authorities vow accurate vote count

02-12-2025 12:45 Honduras election at a standstill as Washington claims officials are manipulating results; Trump pardons former leader Juan Orlando Hernández, serving 45-year jail term in United States.

Peru Chile Migration

Scared Venezuelan migrants flee Chile and spark backlash

27-11-2025 14:24 Venezuelan migrants fleeing Chile’s tough policies has seen hundreds stranded at the Peru border. In response, the government in Lima is enforcing strict border control amid fears of a larger migration wave.

POLITICS & SECURITY

Bullrich ploughs cash into immigration controls, unveils new force

25-11-2025 16:33 The sum in question is 181 billion pesos, included in the 2026 Budget; additional funds will be needed for the new border-control force.

CHILE ELECTION 2025

Chile’s right targets migrants ahead of election

12-11-2025 16:37 Chile’s political right is seizing on anti-migrant sentiment ahead of Sunday’s elections. But beneath the hardline rhetoric lies an economy increasingly dependent on foreign workers.

Kast Migrant Policy

Chile’s far-right candidate says migrants must pay for their own deportation

28-10-2025 15:50 Far-right candidate José Antonio Kast pledges migrants will cover their own deportation costs as Chile’s election campaign intensifies.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Pope Leo highlights poor and marginalised in first-ever text

09-10-2025 18:06 In the first major text of his papacy, Pope Leo calls for a focus on poverty, social justice, and challenges the marginalization of vulnerable communities.

MULTILATERALISM

United Nations slams 'pushback' against diversity

16-06-2025 15:32 Argentine and US government officials "have made statements vilifying transgender and non-binary people, while restricting their rights," says UN rights chief Volker Türk.

New immigration policy

Milei clamps down on immigration to ‘make Argentina great again’

14-05-2025 15:14 Argentina has long welcomed immigrants with relatively open arms, even offering free healthcare and education to foreign residents. But Milei’s government wants to reverse that.

POLITICS

Milei’s Argentina eyes deportations, tightens immigration rules

14-05-2025 14:50 Milei government says it will tighten access to citizenship, accelerate deportations of foreign nationals with criminal records and make foreigners pay for state healthcare and university education.

FRANCIS FEUD

Pope told to 'stick to Church' after Trump critique

11-02-2025 14:12 The Argentine pontiff accused US President Donald Trump of 'damaging the dignity' of migrants through his stringent deportation policy.

TRADE WAR

Trump, China's Xi set to speak on tariff battle

04-02-2025 16:05 Trump triggers a trade war and Chinese President Xi Jinping hurls back 15 percent levies on coal and liquified natural gas imports. The two world leaders are expected to meet Tuesday.

POLITICS IN UNITED STATES

Trump says US will detain 30,000 migrants in Guantánamo

30-01-2025 09:30 US President Donald Trump announces that the United States will hold some 30,000 "criminal illegal aliens" at the notorious Guantánamo military detention facility in Cuba as part of his administration's crackdown on illegal immigration.

TRUMP'S RETURN

Scalded by Colombia row, Latin America treads carefully with Trump

29-01-2025 22:44 Leaders across Latin American leaders are walking a tightrope in the Trump 2.0 era, as Gustavo Petro’s recent clash with US president goes to show.

Political crisis in Bolivia

Peru braces for Bolivian migration wave amid turmoil

12-11-2024 11:25 Peru, along with other Latin American nations, are cautiously monitoring economic and political instability in Bolivia.

MIGRATION & HUMAN RIGHTS

UN: Number of children fleeing Latin America is soaring

15-05-2024 13:20 More than 30,000 children have crossed the perilous Darien Gap jungle in four months on the path to a better life in the United States, a number up 40% from the same period last year.