Dozens of people are still missing as aid slowly continues to flow into the region. Otis rapidly intensified to a Category 5 storm before crashing ashore last week.

The Category 5 storm slammed into Mexico's Pacific coast early Wednesday, killing at least 27 people, with at least four still missing.

Four people were missing as tens of thousands of residents in damaged homes without electricity awaited help more than a day after Otis roared ashore in Acapulco.

Otis had strengthened rapidly, going from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in 12 hours Tuesday. It made landfall bringing 165 mph winds and heavy rain to Acapulco and surrounding towns.

Sergio Massa surprised Sunday night by finishing on top in the first round of Argentina's presidential election, reflecting voters' wariness about handing the presidency to a right-wing populist.

Venezuelans replaced Mexicans for the first time on record, according to new figures that show September was the second-highest month for arrests of all nationalities.

Former president Bolosnaro rejected the report's findings, issued by lawmakers mostly allied with the current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as biased. "It's completely biased," Bolsonaro said.

More than a million women in Bogotá, Colombia, do unpaid family caregiver work full-time. The country has launched a groundbreaking program called "Care Blocks" to ease their burden.

Inexperienced politician Daniel Noboa won Ecuador's presidential runoff election Sunday held amid unprecedented violence that even claimed the life of a candidate.

Photographer Tania Barrientos shares the stories of midwives and leaders at Indigenous women's centers called CAMIs in Costa Chica de Guerrero, a coastal region in southwest México.

Downs and saxophonist Paul Cohen had been together for almost 30 years. She says her latest album is therapy for the soul.

A man from El Salvador describes inhumane treatment by Mexican authorities leading up to the deadly fire at a migration detention in Mexico in March.

From a collection of 25,000 photographs captured over a period of two years, David Hanes-González presents 28 that capture the soul of boxing in México.

The team is called Las Amazonas de Yaxunah. They've defied gender stereotypes to become sports heroes. And these women and teens play the game wearing traditional Maya dresses — and no shoes.,

More Cubans have fled to live in the United States in 2022 and 2023 than the waves of migration in the '80s and '90s. Three couples' stories show the complex realities of the current exodus.