James Wagner

I’m an international correspondent at The New York Times covering culture, sports and news in Latin America. Here are five things I am enjoying recently.

The boat was carrying over 80 people and bound for Turks and Caicos. The disaster underscores Haiti’s gang-fueled crisis that has spurred many Haitians to leave.

With years of fractures, surgeries, hardware and pain, Olympians can list their injuries as readily as their achievements.

Two U.S.-based arbitral institutions and two international institutions recently released global caseload data from 2023. The American Arbitration...

MEXICO CITY — Outside Mexico's Senate building Tuesday, university students wearing masks and dressed as the country's Supreme Court justices took turns smashing a black piñata with a stick.

A sweeping change would have thousands of judges, from local courtrooms all the way up to the Supreme Court, elected instead of appointed.

MEXICO CITY — Mexico's states swiftly moved to remake the country's entire judicial system on Thursday, approving an amendment to the Constitution

Demonstrators outside the Senate in Mexico City, protesting legislation that would dramatically revamp Mexico's judiciary, Sept. 10, 2024. Mexico passed into law on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, a constitutional amendment are making its entire judiciary, marking the most far-reaching overhaul of a country's court system ever carried out by a major democracy.

Going forward, Mexican voters will now elect judges at every level, dramatically restructuring the third branch of government.