Guillermo Galdos , Latin America Correspondent

Brazil could potentially accept $22m in aid to fight the Amazon wildfires, but there is a caveat.

Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, said his country was being treated like a colony. 

What’s happened to the families who got caught up in President Trump’s zero tolerance policy at the border? The hundreds of parents who were separated from their children and deported without them? In the second of his special reports, we revisited one Guatemalan mother who was sent home without her family.

There’s a reason why so many thousands of people are so desperate that they’re fleeing everything they know in the hope of a safer life. And it’s the surge in gang violence which has made Latin America the world’s most dangerous region outside a war zone, with 43 of the 50 most violent cities across…

It’s been described as the worst refugee crisis in recent Latin American history – the majority of those fleeing Venezuela have crossed into neighbouring Colombia, and then on to Ecuador, Peru and Chile. Others have gone south to Brazil. Concerned by the influx, these countries are imposing tighter border restrictions. Channel 4 News’ Guilllermo Galdos went to Peru where migrants will require…

It’s an ancient medicine that’s been a way of life for Amazon communities for thousands of years. But Ayahuasca has also become increasingly popular with tourists, eager to seek out its hallucinogenic and healing properties.

We have following two people who, with tens of thousands of others, are so desperate to flee the danger and destruction in their homelands, they risk everything in the attempt to make it to the United States on the ‘El tren de la muerte’ – the Death Train. When President Trump introduced tough new policies to stop migrants…

Another place that’s felt the cold wind of President Trump’s threatened trade wars is the US’s neighbour, Mexico. A new president has been elected there. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known by his initials as AMLO, is a populist. That’s where the similarities with his counterpart north of the border end. He’s a left winger who’s…

The fury of Guatemala’s Mount Fuego volcano has not fallen silent yet. This weekend it released another flow of burning debris and rock, a week after the eruption which left at least 110 people dead and thousands of homes destroyed. Some families are so desperate to find out what’s happened to their missing relatives that…

Last week, this programme exposed how Cambridge Analytica claimed to have intervened – often secretly – in elections around the world. Now the secrets are unspooling. An undercover reporter for Channel 4 News posed as a fixer for a wealthy client hoping to get candidates elected in Sri Lanka. Last week, that country’s Prime Minister…

Our Latin America Correspondent Guillermo Galdos spent a week in the city of Ciudad Juarez, one of the key routes for drugs and people into the United States and where the war’s frontlines are becoming even more blurred.

America’s addiction to opioids is so great that in October President Donald Trump declared a National Health Emergency. And the statistics are grim with hundreds of people losing their lives to overdoses every week. The problem is particularly acute in the US territory of Puerto Rico, where people are still trying to get back on…

Venezuela’s mounting problems have driven thousands of people to leave the oil-rich nation. Guillermo Galdos travelled to Trinidad and Tobago, which has seen an influx of Venezuelans looking for work. In his report, he meets women who have turned to prostitution in order to feed their families back home. A warning, it does contain strong…

The Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has claimed victory in a vote that will allow him to rewrite the constitution and give hand almost unlimited powers to the ruling Socialist Party. But the United States has already dismissed yesterday’s election as a sham, while opponents have rejected official claims that 8 million people turned out to…

Eighty protesters have now died in months of violent clashes with police. Today the UN has urged Venezuela’s President to uphold the rule of law and the right of people to protest. Along with the crackdown on protests, the economic situation is getting worse.  And it’s Venezuela’s most vulnerable who are suffering most, as Guillermo…