Bolivia’s new interim government has begun winning some international recognition but faced challenges to its legitimacy at home on Thursday and lashed out at former President Evo Morales. Jeanine Añez, a Senate deputy leader who has claimed the interim presidency of the Andean country,

Evo Morales, the former president of Bolivia who resigned under pressure from street protests and the military, flew to Mexico on Tuesday, but not before recording an audio message promising Bolivians, “I will return soon with force.” Mr. Morales, who stepped down on Sunday, left his country deeply polarized and leaderless, and his resignation, along […]

Job creation in Canada unexpectedly stalled in October after two straight strong showings, as declines in the country’s manufacturing and construction sectors was offset by hiring in the government sector. Despite the setback, the unemployment rate was unchanged and close to a four-decade low. Employment growth on a one-year basis remains elevated on a historical […]

The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff called on South Korea to stay in a military information-sharing pact with Japan, part of a high-level U.S. push to hold together the agreement between two of its closest allies days before it is due to expire. Gen. Mark Milley, who is visiting Japan and South […]

Embattled Bolivian President Evo Morales fled the capital La Paz and resigned after the head of the armed forces, Gen. Williams Kaliman, suggested that he leave power in the wake of an Oct. 20 presidential vote that electoral monitors said was marred by fraud. Sunday’s resignation by the 60-year-old leader, who as a union leader […]

What would have happened if Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had said yes to Donald Trump’s offer to send in the American military to wage war against the drug cartels? Are we talking thousands of troops? Artillery? Air support? How many? How much? Would it involve limited targets or, essentially, an invasion? And how […]

Criminal investigators in northern Mexico say a suspect has been arrested and is under investigation for possible connections with the deaths of nine U.S. citizens — three women and six children — slaughtered Monday when cartel gunmen ambushed their vehicles. In a statement posted on Facebook, the Agency for Criminal Investigation for the state of […]

The families killed Monday in an ambush in Mexico highlight the long history of fundamentalist members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who originally fled from the U.S. to Mexico to practice polygamy. Family members said the victims, who include nine women and children, were members of a fundamentalist Mormon community in […]

Assailants have killed at least nine members of a fundamentalist Mormon family in northern Mexico, authorities reported Tuesday, burning alive a woman and her children in a brutal assault that highlighted the growing danger posed by organized-crime groups around the country. Alfonso Durazo, the minister of public security, told a news conference that three women […]

The video shows the raid before it fell apart: Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of the notorious former Sinaloa cartel leader El Chapo, surrounded by security personnel pointing guns at his head. The Mexican government released the clip Wednesday not to boast about its conquest, but to explain how the Oct. 17 operation in the […]