Latin America

In recent decades, no incumbents from the 10 Latin American countries in South America have lost bids for re-election.

Despite public frustration, the late Hugo Chávez’s successor as president, Nicolás Maduro, continues to enjoy as much public support as the political opposition.

The world’s increasing population means that the sheer number of international migrants has never been higher.

Half of the world’s population lives in just six countries. But in many cases, the world’s major religious groups are even more concentrated.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has been praised internationally for his ambitious reforms of everything from the energy sector to education to telecommunications, but a new Pew Research Center survey in Mexico finds that domestically his positive image is faltering and a key component of his political agenda – economic reform – is decidedly unpopular.

Venezuelans have very different views of two of the nation’s most important trade partners: the United States and Cuba.

65% of people in Honduras live in poverty. 16% of Honduras's GDP is based on money sent from migrants abroad. The wave of all immigrants in the U.S. coming from Honduras is relatively new, with more than half arriving in 2000 or later.

New data shows that thousands of unaccompanied Mexican children caught at the border have crossed into the U.S. multiple times.