Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives snatched up a parliamentary majority during Canada’s May 2 election. The National Democratic Party cruised to second, winning the role of official opposition for the first time.

Mexico's Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa traveled to Washington April 29 for a security summit. While the two countries investigate next steps in the bilateral fight against transnational crime, Mexico faces illicit arms trafficking across both its northern and southern borders.

With the 2012 presidential campaign revving up, Obama hopes to build bipartisan support for comprehensive immigration reform. But opposition to a pathway for citizenship will make it tough to get a proposal through Congress.

Four Latin American countries on the Pacific Rim are banding together to increase regional clout and Asia-Pacific trade. On April 28, the leaders of Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru meet in Lima to ink the Pacific Arc agreement.

After winning Haiti’s March 20 runoff election by a landslide, President-elect Michel Martelly travels to Washington this week to gain the support of international donors who have yet to disburse the lion’s share of pledged funding.

During the Sixth Communist Party Congress, Cuban head of state Raúl Castro continued to push limited liberalization of the island’s socialist economy and took the unexpected step of proposing term limits.

Nationalist Ollanta Humala won Peru's April 10 election, with conservative Keiko Fujimori taking second place. The two candidates will face each other in a June 5 runoff.