Megan Janetsky

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Venezuela’s new interim president is the daughter of a socialist who was arrested in connection with the 1976 kidnapping of an American businessman

By Megan Janetsky, Isabel Debre, and others

Residents look at a damaged apartment complex that neighbors say was hit during U.S. strikes to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in Catia La Mar, Venezuela, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

People in Venezuela didn’t celebrate Maduro’s capture out of fear of government repression, construction worker says

By Regina Garcia Cano, Megan Janetsky, and others

A soldier stands atop an armored vehicle on the highway leading from the international airport toward Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Venezuela’s capital Caracas is unusually quiet with stores and gas stations closed, a day after Maduro was deposed by U.S.

By Regina Garcia Cano, Megan Janetsky, and others

Claudia Sheinbaum

Mexico’s leftist ‘Trump whisperer’ Claudia Sheinbaum is tough on cartels and flexible on trade but increasingly backed into a corner

By Megan Janetsky and The Associated Press

Huaraches

Mexican-American designer apologizes for sandal design accused of ‘cultural appropriation’

By Megan Janetsky and The Associated Press

Members of various anti-gentrification collectives in Mexico City hold a protest in Parque Mexico in the Condesa neighborhood, demanding that the capital’s authorities halt what they call a new proliferation of foreigners that leaves current and future generations homeless and causes high rents for apartments and houses, in Mexico City, Mexico, on July 4, 2025. (Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Travel & Leisure

Mexico President Sheinbaum calls anti-tourism march over flood of American digital nomads ‘xenophobic’: ‘Gringo: Stop stealing our home’

By Megan Janetsky, María Verza, and others

Illustration of migrants climbing over a border barrier with emojis overlayed on the scene, based on hundreds of TikTok videos reviewed by the AP. (AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin)

People-smugglers are using TikTok videos piled with emojis and images of thick wads of cash to market services to dodge Trump border crackdown

By Megan Janetsky and The Associated Press

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announcing that Mexico will hit back at US President Donald Trump's tariffs during a briefing conference at the National Palace. on March 4, 2025 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to reveal trade counterpunch as tensions with Trump escalate

By Megan Janetsky, María Verza, and others

Migrants wait outside the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (COMAR) government office to apply for asylum in Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Doctor and architect who fled Cuba only to get stuck south of the border turn to their Plan B: ‘Now, it’s the Mexican dream’

By Megan Janetsky and The Associated Press

A girl from the Mexican state of Morelia sleeps in front of a sign for Tijuana as her family’s CBP One application appointments to apply for asylum in the United States were declared not valid on the application Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico, shortly after President Donald Trump was sworn-in. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Migrants with U.S. asylum appointments canceled by Trump look at crossing the border through more dangerous means

By Megan Janetsky, Edgar H. Clemente, and others

PUEBLA, MEXICO – MAY 25: Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum of ”Sigamos Haciendo Historia” coalition greets her supporters during a rally on May 25, 2024 in Puebla, Mexico. Mexicans go to the polls for the general elections on June 2, 2024. (Photo by José Castañares/ObturadorMX/Getty Images)

Mexico prepares to elect first woman leader as millions of domestic workers wonder if it will improve ‘modern slavery’

By Megan Janetsky and The Associated Press