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Guatamalan President Jimmy Morales with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Nov. 29, 2016. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

Anti-Israel campaigns in Latin America on the rise

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Anti-Israel campaigns in Latin America, specifically in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, have grown in recent years. For decades, Latin American governments generally had strong ties with Israel, but this shifted during the 2000s when...
AlĆ­ Akbar Velayati (left) appearing at a press conference. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Argentina asks Azerbaijan to arrest Iranian suspect in 1994 AMIA bombing

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Argentina is asking Azerbaijan to arrest an Iranian official visiting Baku in connection with the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires. AlĆ­ Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah...

Mexican Jews welcome Netanyahu — Despite backing for Trump’s wall

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Mexico’s Jewish community was caught in the cross-hairs this January when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the idea of the United States building a border wall along its southern frontier. But eight months...
Argentine President Javier Milei and Argentina's Ambassador to Israel Axel Wahnish pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, June 10, 2025. Photo courtesy of Argentina's Embassy in Israel.

Argentine president vows support for Israel at Western Wall

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Argentinian President Javier Milei started his official state visit to Israel on Monday with an emotional pledge at Jerusalem’s Western Wall that he will ā€œalways standā€ with the Jewish state, which he called "the...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett greets Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem prior to dedicating the Honduran Embassy in the city, June 23, 2021. Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Honduran embassy inaugurated in Jerusalem

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Honduras dedicated its new embassy in Jerusalem on Thursday, becoming the fourth country to open an embassy in Israel’s capital, following the United States, Kosovo and Guatemala. Honduran President Juan Orlando HernĆ”ndez, who flew to...

Pope Francis will migrate simbolically from Chiapas to Juarez

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Pope Francis is expected to make immigration a major theme of his visit to Mexico. By traveling northward across Mexico, he intends to symbolically retrace the journey of Mexican and Central American migrants traveling...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President of Paraguay Horacio Cartes (left) at the official opening ceremony of the Paraguay embassy in Jerusalem on May 21, 2018. Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.

Israel shutters diplomatic doors in Paraguay after it moves embassy back to Tel Aviv

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the foreign ministry to close the embassy in Paraguay after the South American nation announced that it would move its newly opened embassy in Jerusalem back to...
Eduardo Bolsonaro, Brazilian federal deputy and son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, speaks an event opening the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency in Jerusalem, Dec. 15, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

ā€˜Brazil will move its embassy to Jerusalem in 2020’

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Senior Brazilian lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro said on Sunday that Brazil was committed to moving its embassy to Jerusalem in 2020. Speaking at the opening event in Jerusalem for a Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Rio de Janeiro on an official state visit in Brazil, Dec. 28, 2018. Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Netanyahu heralds ā€˜new era in relations between Israel and Brazil’

Anyone who wants additional proof that Israel is a rising world power should see the great admiration for Israel in Brazil, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. Netanyahu arrived in Brazil last week...
Thousands of people attended a memorial event in Argentina dedicated to the 85 people killed and 300 others injured during the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, July 18, 2022. Source: Twitter/The Israeli Foreign Ministry.

Latin American Forum to combat anti-Semitism timed to AMIA bombing event

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B’nai B’rith director of Latin American Affairs Eduardo Kohn and Special Advisor on Latin American and U.N. Affairs Adriana Camisar participated in the Latin American Forum to Combat Anti-Semitism in Buenos Aires, Argentina, organized...