Mexico's Senate approved a constitutional reform early on Wednesday morning that will give the armed forces control of the civilian-led national guard, in a move critics say
September 25, 2024
BBVA Chief Executive Onur Genc said on Wednesday he remained bullish on Mexico, the Spanish bank's largest market, ahead of the swearing-in ceremony of incoming President Claudia
September 25, 2024
As President Daniel Ortega has moved aggressively to silence critics of his administration in Nicaragua, faith leaders have denounced their surveillance, harassment and threats at the hands of the state
September 25, 2024
Hurricane Helene threatens ‘unsurvivable’ storm surge in Florida as it’s forecast to explode into catastrophic Category 4
September 25, 2024
Many in Mexico will feel a deep sense of loss when folksy, charismatic, nationalistic President Andrés Manuel López Obrador leaves office on Sept. 30, and that’s no surprise
September 25, 2024
A raging wildfire filled Ecuador's capital of Quito with smoke and threatened homes on Tuesday as authorities rushed to control the blaze at a time when a historic drought has
September 25, 2024
Argentina's government may condense negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff on its $44 billion program before opening talks on a new agreement that could include new
September 24, 2024
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Mexican ice cream shop chain and a local pharmacy used as investments by drug traffickers
September 24, 2024
The White House says President Joe Biden will make his long-awaited visit to Africa next month
September 24, 2024
An American quarry company says the Mexican government has carried out a de facto expropriation of its properties on Mexico's Caribbean coast
September 24, 2024
Tech giant Microsoft will invest $1.3 billion over the next three years to build up its infrastructure in Mexico for cloud computing and artificial intelligence, the company
September 24, 2024
Tropical Storm Helene is expected to unleash mudslides and flooding in Cuba before reaching major hurricane strength on Thursday as it hits Florida with life-
September 24, 2024
Venezuela's attorney general Tarek Saab on Tuesday said he has requested Interpol to issue an arrest warrant for Argentine President Javier Millei, the latest salvo in a diplomatic spat
September 24, 2024
If you think Latin American history starts with Christopher Columbus, John Leguizamo would like to have a word
September 24, 2024
Colombia has lifted restrictions on imports of U.S. beef from states where dairy cattle tested positive for bird flu, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture website.
September 24, 2024
Soccer fans arriving in North America for the 2026 World Cup have been promised help with their cell phone coverage
September 24, 2024
Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei, who has managed to stay popular despite painful spending cuts since taking office late last year, is seeing his
September 24, 2024
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, said in a post on X on Tuesday that his companies were looking for ways to invest in Argentina and support the South American nation.
September 24, 2024
Ten years ago, Edgar Vargas' life forever changed when he was shot in the face in one of Mexico's most notorious cases of mass violence in recent memory: the
September 24, 2024
Florida residents are already evacuating and filling sandbags days ahead of anticipated flooding from Tropical Storm Helene
September 24, 2024
Amazon and other companies have agreed to buy carbon offset credits that will support the conservation of its namesake rainforest in the Brazilian state of Para, in
September 24, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is viewed more favorably by Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander voters than former President Donald Trump
September 24, 2024
The United States took aim at drug trafficking on Tuesday as the Treasury Department imposed sanctions on leaders of one of Colombia's largest trafficking organizations and
September 24, 2024
Hurricane John threatened southwestern Mexico with severe flooding on Tuesday evening even as it weakened on its trek inland after leaving three people dead
September 24, 2024
Tropical Storm Helene formed in the northwestern Caribbean Sea and will set off on a breakneck pace of strengthening. It could take Helene just 48 hours to go from a 45 mph tropical storm to a Category 3 major hurricane as it rapidly intensifies over the extremely warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. CNN's Chad Myers reports.
September 24, 2024
Tropical Storm John turns deadly after slamming into Mexico, bringing heavy rain and landslides
September 24, 2024
A federal court in Argentina has ordered the “immediate” arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello for alleged crimes against humanity committed against dissidents
September 24, 2024
Bleider Leves, a 17-year-old mechanic, was heading to his Caracas home one day in late July after Venezuela's contested election when police grabbed him on the
September 23, 2024
Power cuts in Ecuador will run nationwide for 12 hours per day, up from a planned eight, the government said on Monday, citing the country's urgent energy crisis caused by the worst
September 23, 2024
Latin American baseball league provides migrants in Texas sense of community
September 23, 2024
Mexico's annual inflation likely continued to moderate in the first half of September, a Reuters poll of analysts showed on Monday, raising expectations the central bank will
September 23, 2024
Hurricane John hit Mexico's southern Pacific coast late on Monday as a major category 3 storm, with authorities warning residents to protect
September 23, 2024
Forecasters have issued hurricane watches for parts of Cuba and Mexico as a cluster of storms located south of the Cayman Islands could strengthen in upcoming days as it moves north toward the U.S. The National Hurricane Center says the disturbance may become Hurricane Helene on Wednesday as it approaches the Gulf Coast
September 23, 2024
Exclusive: American held for 8 years in notorious Iranian prison tells of ordeal
September 23, 2024
Hurricane John struck Mexico’s southern Pacific coast Monday night with fierce winds and heavy rainfall after strengthening from tropical storm to major hurricane in a matter of hours
September 23, 2024
Esai Reed, at only 6 years old, has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful communities
September 23, 2024
Bolivia’s pro-government supporters and security forces have confronted protesters loyal to former President Evo Morales in a street melee
September 22, 2024
Mexico's ruling Morena party on Sunday elected Interior Secretary Luisa Maria Alcalde as its new leader and awarded the son of outgoing Mexican President Andres
September 22, 2024
U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar has rejected accusations by Mexico’s president that the U.S. shares some responsibility for cartel violence in Sinaloa state
September 22, 2024
Ecuador's government has announced the suspension of electricity service for nine hours on Sunday in 12 of the Andean nation's 24 provinces and placed 19 areas
September 22, 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto, on a visit to Haiti, said on Saturday that he was open to Kenya's anti-gang mission in the country being converted to a full
September 21, 2024
The U.S. ambassador to Mexico on Saturday rejected President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's claims that the U.S. was "co-responsible" for violence in the western state of
September 21, 2024
Mexican president blames US in part for rise in violence in Sinaloa
September 21, 2024
Brazil's government slightly reduced the expected primary deficit for the current fiscal year late on Friday, attributing the revision to improved revenues that more than offset
September 20, 2024
Some 53 people have been killed and 51 others are missing in Mexico's western Sinaloa state since rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel began clashing on Sept 9,
September 20, 2024
The son of a Mexican drug cartel leader has been convicted of charges that he used violence to help his father operate one of the country’s largest and most dangerous narcotics trafficking organizations
September 20, 2024
A team of Brazilian Greenpeace environmental activists on Friday placed a protect banner on a sandbank that has emerged in the middle of one of the major rivers of the
September 20, 2024
Peru's central bank expects that the Andean nation's economy will grow 3.1% this year and a further 3.0% in 2025, it said in a report on Friday, maintaining
September 20, 2024
The United Nations' expert on human rights in Haiti said on Friday that the situation in the conflict-hit Caribbean nation had worsened and efforts to rebuild security must
September 20, 2024
Venezuela's government "categorically" rejected a United Nations human rights report on Friday criticizing repression of political opponents and children in the wake of contested
September 20, 2024
A Lebanese-Belgian dual citizen accused by the United States of financing the armed group Hezbollah pleaded guilty on Friday in a criminal case charging him with sanctions
September 20, 2024
Venezuela's former presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez said on Friday he sought diplomatic refuge after being told President Nicolas Maduro's security forces were
September 20, 2024
Haitians fled their country for peace. Now, many are having it disrupted in Springfield
September 20, 2024
Genaro Garcia Luna, who for several years led Mexico's fight against the country's violent drug trade, should spend the rest of his life in prison after
September 19, 2024
The carcass of a baby dolphin lay on the sand bank left exposed by the receding waters in an Amazon lake that has been drying up in the worst drought on record.
September 19, 2024
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has blamed the United States in part for the surge in cartel violence terrorizing the northern state of Sinaloa which has left at least 30 people dead in the past week
September 19, 2024
Brazilian energy authorities have approved bringing back daylight saving time, a senior official said on Thursday, to
September 19, 2024
Spain has denied involvement in talks between Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez and President Nicolas Maduro's government for his flight to Spain, before which he signed
September 19, 2024
‘Why Springfield?’ How a small Ohio city became home for thousands of Haitians
September 19, 2024
Huge grains ships loading up with soy and corn at Argentina's major inland river ports around Rosario are taking on less cargo as water levels drop to near
September 19, 2024
A Norwegian human rights foundation gave its annual prize on Thursday to jailed Cuban dissident leader Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara for his "fearless opposition to authoritarianism
September 19, 2024
Colombia has suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, after blaming the rebel group for an attack that killed two soldiers and injured more than 20
September 19, 2024
Brazil's central bank kicked off an interest rate-hiking cycle on Wednesday with a 25 basis-point increase, as expected, and signaled more increases ahead to
September 18, 2024
TelevisaUnivision, a Mexican-American media company that combines content from two of the largest Spanish-language broadcasters, said on Wednesday it
September 18, 2024
The families of four Americans detained in China say their loved ones are suffering both physically and mentally, and they are urging the U.S. government to take action to bring then home
September 18, 2024
Some Brazilian users have regained access to X despite a nationwide ban put in place by the country’s Supreme Court
September 18, 2024
In Brazil, a man from the Guarani community was shot dead on Wednesday morning, a governmental protection agency for Indigenous communities said, as a land dispute in the farm
September 18, 2024
Venezuela’s former opposition candidate says he was coerced into signing a letter effectively recognizing his defeat in July’s presidential election
September 18, 2024
Argentina's economy shrank 1.7% in the second quarter of the year compared to the previous three-month period, the country's statistics agency said on Wednesday, pushing the
September 18, 2024
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is demanding that former secretary of public security Genaro García Luna, who was convicted on drug trafficking charges in the United States last year, present evidence to support his accusations that the president has links to drug trafficking
September 18, 2024
Venezuela opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, who stood against President Nicolas Maduro in July's election, on Wednesday said he was forced to sign a letter accepting a ruling from
September 18, 2024
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in three regions affected by devastating forest fires that have burned through swathes of
September 18, 2024
In Venezuela, AI news anchors aren’t replacing journalists. They’re protecting them
September 18, 2024
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's lieutenant in Quebec will soon quit his post, La Presse newspaper said on Wednesday, two days after the ruling Liberals lost a safe
September 18, 2024
After the Venezuelan government intensified its crackdown on independent media following the controversial election of president Nicolas Maduro, a group of journalists turned to AI for protection. A collective of reporters launched “Operation Retweet,” which uses two avatars to report verified news from journalists while protecting their identities.
September 18, 2024
Four takeaways from Tuesday’s Champions League action: Bayern Munich and Endrick make history, Americans shine
September 18, 2024
The first widespread agreement across the American Colonies dealt with economic independence from British trade and taxation.
September 18, 2024
Cuba's booming private businesses braced for impact on Wednesday as the island's communist-run government implemented a raft of new laws aimed at
September 18, 2024
The North American airports that travelers find the most – and least – satisfying
September 18, 2024
The Haitian Times covered the false claims targeting Springfield. Now it’s also facing attacks
September 18, 2024
As Brazil struggles to meet its year-end budget target, the government has become increasingly creative with how it accounts for spending, tax
September 18, 2024
An attack with explosives by Colombian leftist rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN), which left more than two dozen troops injured and two dead, has "practically" ended
September 18, 2024
The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic lows, in some cases drying up
September 18, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has repeated false claims that Chinese automakers are putting up large factories in Mexico
September 18, 2024
Thousands of anti-government demonstrators marching in support of Bolivia’s former socialist President Evo Morales were clashing with counterprotesters blocking their way, a stark sign of an escalating power struggle in the volatile Andean nation
September 17, 2024
A federal court in Brazil has dismissed charges against one of three men arrested in the killings of an Indigenous peoples expert and a British journalist in the Amazon, ruling there wasn’t sufficient evidence to try him
September 17, 2024
An attack on a military base in eastern Colombia killed two soldiers and injured at least 21, Colombia’s military says, as tensions escalate between Colombia’s government and one of the nation’s largest remaining rebel groups
September 17, 2024
At least 30 people have been killed in the past two weeks in Mexico’s northern state of Sinaloa as two factions of the powerful Sinaloa cartel continue to clash
September 17, 2024
Venezuela’s government has announced the arrest of a fourth U.S. citizen in connection with an alleged plot to kill President Nicolás Maduro
September 17, 2024
Venezuela has arrested a fourth American citizen since the start of this month, the country's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said on Tuesday, without naming the person detained
September 17, 2024
Colombia's government will not modify the value of 523 trillion pesos ($123.9 billion) for its proposed 2025 budget, Finance Minister Ricardo Bonilla said in an
September 17, 2024
Three Americans sentenced to death in Congo for a coup attempt have filed an appeal
September 17, 2024
What to know about the false rumor targeting Haitian immigrants in Ohio town
September 17, 2024
Google says it will halt plans to develop a major $200 million data center in Chile to address environmental concerns
September 17, 2024
The Mexican pop-rock band Maná has removed its 2016 song with Nicky Jam after the Puerto Rican reggaeton singer expressed his support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
September 17, 2024
Authorities in Mexico say six people have been killed in a landslide near Mexico City
September 17, 2024
Édgar Barrera, the producer and songwriter known for his work with artists such as Madonna, Karol G, Peso Pluma, Shakira and Grupo Frontera, leads the Latin Grammy nominations for a second year in a row
September 17, 2024
Officials in Puerto Rico have rejected a petition to extend the voter registration deadline
September 17, 2024
Google will rework from scratch its plans to build a $200 million data center in Santiago after concerns were raised about its environmental impact on the Chilean capital, the U.S
September 17, 2024
Mexico's judicial reform has triggered investor concerns about uncertainty over the rule of law and the strength of the government's
September 17, 2024
President Nicolas Maduro's government escalated repressive tactics to crush peaceful protests and keep power after Venezuela's disputed
September 17, 2024
‘Why all this hate?’: Mayoral debate in Brazil turns ugly as candidate attacks rival with chair, live on TV
September 16, 2024
Chaos broke out on a stage in São Paulo, Brazil, after mayoral candidate José Luiz Datena hit his opponent Pablo Marçal over the mention of a 2019 sexual harassment allegation that was withdrawn.
September 16, 2024
Evo Morales, Bolivia’s former president, has called on supporters to protest against current President Luis Arce
September 16, 2024
'Concerns' growing for Haitians in Tulsa as false rumors spread
September 16, 2024
Cuba's communist-run government on Monday slashed by a quarter the weight of its subsidized ration of daily bread, the latest shortage to strain a decades-old subsidies scheme
September 16, 2024
Peruvian Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzen on Monday called on farming communities to stop burning grasslands in Andean and Amazonian areas that have sparked deadly wildfires, killing
September 16, 2024
Firefighters have battled flames spreading through a national park in Brazil in the latest wildfire in the country which is experiencing an historic drought
September 16, 2024
A televised debate among election rivals for mayor of Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city, descended into chaos when one struggling candidate whacked another with a chair and was expelled.
September 16, 2024
A U.S. Defense Department official says the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Niger is complete
September 16, 2024
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa will seek changes to the constitution to allow foreign military bases to be established in the Andean country, he said on Monday via a post on X.
September 16, 2024
Argentina's economy likely shrank 1.4% in the second quarter versus a year earlier, a Reuters poll showed on Monday, the fifth such decline as a recession
September 16, 2024
Venezuela’s main opposition coalition has urged the U.S. to cancel licenses for Chevron and other energy companies
September 16, 2024
Argentina's sovereign bonds and stock index climbed in early trading on Monday, as investors cheered an ambitious 2025 budget plan from libertarian President Javier Milei, that
September 16, 2024
An American pastor held in a Chinese jail for nearly two decades is finally home
September 16, 2024
Ryan Routh, the reported suspect in an apparent assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, visited Kyiv in the
September 16, 2024
Libertarian President Javier Milei of Argentina has presented the 2025 budget to Congress, outlining policy priorities that reflected his key pledge to kill the country’s chronic fiscal deficit and signaled a new phase of confrontation with lawmakers
September 16, 2024
At 76, Hillary Clinton is taking stock of her life – its wins and its losses – in a new memoir
September 16, 2024
Mexico's judicial reform overhauling the country's courts, which will allow voters to elect judges, officially took effect on Sunday after the text of the constitutional
September 16, 2024
Brazil’s Supreme Court on Sunday authorized the government to exempt spending on wildfires and droughts in the Amazon and Pantanal regions from this year’s fiscal
September 15, 2024
For many Haitian immigrants, Sunday mornings in Springfield, Ohio, are spent joyfully worshipping God as they sing and pray in their native Creole
September 15, 2024
Peru's economy expanded for the fourth month in a row in July fueled by all sectors except agriculture, official data showed on Sunday, continuing the country's recovery following a
September 15, 2024
Italy’s Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli and Britain’s INEOS Britannia are on the verge of advancing in the America’s Cup after extending their leads in the semifinals
September 15, 2024
Ecuador will implement a nationwide blackout for maintenance in the country's electricity system overnight on Wednesday, from 10 p.m. local time to Thursday at 6 a.m., the government
September 15, 2024
Huge celebrations across the U.S. are expected to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, an annual tradition that showcases the awe-inspiring diversity and culture of Hispanic people
September 15, 2024
US says claims of CIA plot to kill Maduro are ‘categorically false’ after Venezuela arrests six foreigners
September 14, 2024
Controversial former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has been buried after three days of national mourning
September 14, 2024
Mexican authorities logged seven homicides in the western state of Sinaloa on Friday, the latest violence to plague an area where increasingly frequent shootouts are fueling fears of the
September 14, 2024
Long Island Haitians blast Donald Trump's "despicable" comments on immigrants eating pets
September 13, 2024
Brazil's Finance Ministry raised its economic growth forecast on Friday to 3.2% for this year, projecting an acceleration compared with 2023, reflecting the resilience of Latin
September 13, 2024
Authorities in Mexico’s Los Cabos area have been warning people to stay inside
September 13, 2024
Brazil's central bank will raise its benchmark rate by 25 points next Wednesday at what will likely be the start of a short tightening campaign to quash
September 13, 2024
From the window of her tin-sided shop outside El Salvador's capital San Salvador, Esmeralda Quintanilla watches artists get to work in her
September 13, 2024
Water shortages in Cuba are increasingly flaring tempers, including in capital Havana, as problems mount for hundreds of thousands of residents already ragged from shortfalls in
September 13, 2024
The accused Mexican kingpin Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges on Friday in the same New York courthouse where
September 13, 2024
Don't go anywhere: an event-packed week is coming up with central banks from the United States to Brazil and from Europe to Japan meeting.
September 13, 2024
Longtime drug cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has pleaded not guilty to U.S. narcotics trafficking charges
September 13, 2024
Years after being ousted during his third term in office, the former Peruvian strongman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes he committed as president. He was later pardoned – twice.
September 13, 2024
Authorities in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa on Thursday canceled national day celebrations and shut schools on the back of escalating violence
September 12, 2024
Indigenous chants and the rattle of maracas are resounding in a Rio de Janeiro park, where Brazil’s Tupinambá people gathered to celebrate the homecoming of a sacred cloak absent for some 380 years
September 12, 2024
The United States says it will support the addition of two new permanent seats on the powerful U.N. Security Council for African nations
September 12, 2024
A trial of eight health workers charged with "homicide by negligence" over the death of Diego Maradona has been postponed from October until March, Argentine media reported on Thursday.
September 12, 2024
Brazil formally received on Thursday the return from Denmark of an Indigenous cloak made with 4,000 red feathers of the scarlet ibis bird, a sacred mantle that was taken by
September 12, 2024
The International Monetary Fund's director of the Western Hemisphere Rodrigo Valdes has fully delegated all negotiations with Argentina to other officials, the fund said
September 12, 2024
South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia,
September 12, 2024
Peru’s government has declared three days of national mourning over the death of former President Alberto Fujimori
September 12, 2024
Mexico is poised to amend its constitution this weekend to require all judges to be elected as part of a judicial overhaul championed by the outgoing president but slammed by critics as a blow to the country’s rule of law
September 12, 2024
President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Australia, India and Japan next weekend in his Wilmington, Delaware, hometown, the White House announced, as he looks to burnish his legacy before leaving office in January
September 12, 2024
The Biden administration said on Thursday it was imposing U.S. sanctions on 16 allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in response to
September 12, 2024
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele will visit Buenos Aires in late September and meet his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei, an Argentine government source told Reuters on
September 12, 2024
US imposes sanctions on Venezuelan officials who Biden admin says obstructed fair election in country
September 12, 2024
The U.S. government has responded to Venezuela’s disputed July presidential election by imposing sanctions against 16 allies of President Nicolás Maduro
September 12, 2024
A majority of Mexican state legislatures have approved a controversial judicial overhaul, the country's president said on Thursday, marking a final legislative step in its
September 12, 2024
The Ashaninka of the Amonia River, inhabitants of the western Amazon, reclaimed their land from cattle ranchers more than 30 years ago
September 12, 2024
The Ashaninka of the Amonia River, inhabitants of the western Amazon, reclaimed their land from cattle ranchers 30 years ago
September 12, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has requested studies to ensure that by the end of 2026 an income tax exemption will be applied to earnings up to 5,000 reais ($880)
September 12, 2024
Argentina's Peronists, chastened by a painful election loss last year, are trying to find a unifying message and leader to counter
September 12, 2024
Mexico's sweeping judicial overhaul passed in the Senate earlier on Wednesday could have significant implications for the nation's sovereign credit rating, Moody's Ratings
September 12, 2024
Peru’s ex-leader Alberto Fujimori dies at 86
September 12, 2024
Alberto Fujimori, whose decadelong presidency began with triumphs righting Peru’s economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in autocratic excess that sent him to prison, has died
September 11, 2024
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who steered economic growth during the 1990s but was later jailed for human rights abuses stemming from a bloody war against Maoist rebels,
September 11, 2024
Brazil on Wednesday asked the European Union not to implement regulations in its deforestation law at the end of the year as scheduled and asked for it to
September 11, 2024
Hurricane Francine made landfall Wednesday
September 11, 2024
Haitian Americans said they fear for their safety after Donald Trump repeated a false and derogatory claim during this week's
September 11, 2024
The Colombian Senate's economics committee threw out the government's proposed 2025 budget on Wednesday, arguing the Andean country will not be
September 11, 2024
Lauren Coughlin enters the Solheim Cup as the newest and perhaps unlikeliest standout in American women's golf
September 11, 2024
Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says his party plans to put forward a no-confidence motion “at the earliest possible opportunity” in hopes of bringing down Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government
September 11, 2024
Argentina's monthly inflation rate stood at 4.2% in August, official data published on Wednesday showed, rising from last month and surpassing analysts' forecasts, while
September 11, 2024
Argentine protesters clashed with police outside the country's Congress on Wednesday, after lower house lawmakers voted to block a planned hike to pensions that had been
September 11, 2024
Extreme weather is again striking multiple places around the world, including wildfires in California, a hurricane that threatens Louisiana, drought and wildfires in the Amazon and flooding in Nigeria
September 11, 2024
Rose Joseph and Banal Oreus followed different paths from Haiti to this struggling Midwestern industrial city that suddenly finds itself at the center
September 11, 2024
Brazil Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Wednesday that the government is expected to raise its annual economic growth forecast to above 3%, up from the current projection
September 11, 2024
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, after months of hedging on the issue, has committed his government to finishing a road
September 11, 2024
Brazil's central bank said that forgotten funds held by financial institutions could not be classified as primary revenue, marking a setback for the government's
September 11, 2024
On Sept. 6, 2024, the US announced fresh export controls on quantum and microchip goods. Taiwan has long worked to slow China’s AI progress, while not damaging its own lucrative market.
September 11, 2024
Cuban lab chemist Deisy Herrera was crushed when her two sons left the island in search of a better life.
September 11, 2024
Mexico’s Senate has voted to overhaul the country’s judiciary, clearing the biggest hurdle for a controversial constitutional revision that will make all judges stand for election
September 11, 2024
Mexico's Senate on Wednesday approved a judicial reform that has fueled a court workers' strike, strained relations with the United States and triggered market
September 11, 2024
Mexico's Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a sweeping reform that will reshape the country's judiciary system by electing judges by popular vote, cementing a victory
September 11, 2024
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's government will not take into account a parliamentary vote to recognise Venezuelan opposition
September 11, 2024
Mexico's Senate early Wednesday approved a sweeping judicial reform that will overhaul the country's judiciary by electing judges by
September 11, 2024
Human Rights Watch is calling on governments in Latin America to improve protection schemes for millions of people from Venezuela and Haiti who have struggled to get work, education and health care in their host countries and are increasingly heading to the United States
September 11, 2024
Shootouts in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa have kindled fears that an intra-cartel war is about to break out in the wake of the
September 11, 2024
Hundreds of protesters pushed into Mexico’s Senate as lawmakers weighed a contentious plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary, forcing the body to temporarily suspend its session
September 10, 2024
Mexico's ruling bloc appeared to secure the necessary votes to pass a judicial reform bill on Tuesday evening after an opposition senator dramatically
September 10, 2024
A major river in the Brazilian metropolis Sao Paulo is suddenly emerald green and clear skies have turned from blue to grey
September 10, 2024
Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez will remain a "very clear voice" pushing for change in his country despite fleeing to seek
September 10, 2024
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced on Tuesday that his government will send an initial deployment of 24 military and police personnel to Haiti to support an
September 10, 2024
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness says his country will send two dozen soldiers and police officers to Haiti this week to boost a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya to fight violent gangs
September 10, 2024
Just three months ago, Claudia Sheinbaum was riding high, winning the largest vote tally ever secured in Mexico's history to become the country's first
September 10, 2024
The flight of former Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez has largely extinguished hope for
September 10, 2024
Francine strengthened into a hurricane on Tuesday night, the U.S.
September 10, 2024
Francine has become a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico as it bears down on the Louisiana coast
September 10, 2024
Apocalyptic-looking plumes of smoke filled skies east of Los Angeles as firefighters battled three major wildfires that erupted amid a blistering heat wave
September 10, 2024
Trump campaign and JD Vance promote false rumors about Haitian immigrants eating pets
September 09, 2024
Mexico’s Catholic leaders have raised their concerns over a controversial judicial reform pushed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
September 09, 2024
The United States did not give any sort of concessions to Nicaragua in exchange for the release of more than 100 political prisoners last week, an official said on Monday.
September 09, 2024
Brazil’s attempt to strike a balance between free speech and regulation of online platforms has become politicized – complicating future legislation.
September 09, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro needs to release election data from July's disputed election to address global concerns about its validity, White House
September 09, 2024
The U.S. government has temporarily halted a plan to remove iconic stray cats that live in a historic district in Puerto Rico’s capital until a lawsuit opposing the project is resolved
September 09, 2024
On Oneida Nation in Wisconsin, white corn harvests are an important cultural practice
September 09, 2024
Tropical Storm Francine has strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico and is forecast to make landfall as a hurricane at mid-week in Louisiana
September 09, 2024
Argentina's monthly inflation rate is expected to have edged down to 3.9% in August, a Reuters poll of economists showed on Monday, the lowest since the start
September 09, 2024
Marcos Galperin, chief executive of Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre Inc - already the region's most valuable listed firm - says the company is
September 09, 2024
South America's Paraguay River, a key thoroughfare for grains, has hit a record low in Paraguay's capital Asuncion, with water levels
September 09, 2024
The head of El Salvador's police force and a man arrested on charges of a multi-million-dollar embezzlement were among the nine people killed when the military helicopter in
September 09, 2024
Over the past two years, an unprecedented number of Venezuelans have traveled to the U.S. border, seeking a better life
September 09, 2024
A highly contested proposal on judicial reform that critics say will hurt Mexico's business climate edged closer to approval when senators late on Sunday backed it at the
September 08, 2024
Potential Tropical Cyclone Six forms in Gulf with tropical storm watch issued for Mexico
September 08, 2024
The National Weather Service says a tropical system in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico was expected to strengthen this week into a tropical storm and dump heavy rains onto Mexico and Texas before reaching the U.S. as a potential hurricane
September 08, 2024
For millions of Venezuelans, Edmundo González was the undisputed winner of the country’s July 28 presidential election
September 08, 2024
Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez flew into Spain on Sunday to seek asylum, Madrid said, hours after quitting
September 08, 2024
Venezuelan opposition leader Gonzalez lands in Spain seeking asylum after disputed election
September 08, 2024
Former Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González has fled into exile after being granted asylum in Spain, delivering a major blow to millions who placed their hopes in his upstart campaign to end two decades of single-party rule
September 08, 2024
Edmundo Gonzalez, the opposition presidential candidate who ran against President Nicolas Maduro in elections in July, has left the country, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said on
September 08, 2024
Jacob Shaffelburg and Jonathan David scored off defensive misplays, and Canada beat the United States 2-1 in a friendly for its first win over the Americans on U.S. soil since 1957
September 07, 2024
Bolivia declared a national emergency due to raging forest fires the country's defense ministry announced on Saturday.
September 07, 2024
A few thousand supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have begun flooding Sao Paulo’s main boulevard for an Independence Day rally
September 07, 2024
Venezuela’s government has revoked permission for Brazil to serve as custodian of Argentina’s diplomatic missions in the country
September 07, 2024
Venezuela's former presidential opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez has left for Spain in the wake of the South American
September 07, 2024
Venezuelan security forces surround Argentine embassy after opposition members take refuge inside
September 07, 2024
Green Bay quarterback Jordan Love was helped off the field after being injured in the final seconds of the Packers’ 34-29 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Friday night in Brazil
September 07, 2024
Saquon Barkley scored three touchdowns in his debut for Philadelphia, leading the Eagles past the Green Bay Packers 34-29 in the first NFL game in South America
September 07, 2024
Bolivian inflation hit its highest level in nearly ten years, data from the South American country's national statistics office INE showed on Friday, hitting a 12-month rate of 5.19
September 07, 2024
Mexico's opposition senators are uniting around the possibility of blocking controversial judicial reforms pushed by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, which will go to a
September 06, 2024
Brazil's government is considering tax hikes that do not require congressional approval to balance this year's budget, two finance ministry sources said on
September 06, 2024
European Union and South American negotiators ended two days of trade negotiations on Friday with "significant progress" on contentious issues that have been
September 06, 2024
Brazil's has guaranteed 32 immigrants of various nationalities who are at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos Airport the right not to be forcibly repatriated, according to
September 06, 2024
Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum Friday announced her picks to serve as the country's top military leaders once she takes office next month, naming General Ricardo
September 06, 2024
Mining companies Vale and BHP, together with their joint venture Samarco, may soon reach an agreement with Brazilian authorities to pay around 100 billion reais ($17.87
September 06, 2024
Sérgio Mendes, Brazilian singer and pop artist, dead at 83
September 06, 2024
Mexico's headline inflation rate likely eased in August after accelerating for the previous five months, a Reuters poll of analysts showed on Friday, boosting expectations that
September 06, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday fired Human Rights Minister Silvio Almeida following accusations that he sexually harassed several
September 06, 2024
Foreign business chambers have been warning for weeks that a proposed, sweeping overhaul of Mexico’s judiciary that would make judges stand for election, would endanger foreign investment in Mexico
September 06, 2024
More than two months after Hurricane Beryl, the strongest July Atlantic hurricane on record, some farmers in Jamaica are still unable to restore their crops and repair their homes
September 06, 2024
Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers set to clash in NFL’s first foray into South America
September 06, 2024
There's an army taking to Mexico City's streets — the Tree Army
September 06, 2024
American swimmer Ali Truwit wins silver medal 16 months after losing her leg in a shark attack
September 06, 2024
Colombia's government on Friday reached a deal with truckers to suspend a protest over a rise in diesel prices after road blockades threatened to cause food and fuel shortages in the
September 06, 2024
A growing perception in Canada that immigration is to blame for some of the country's economic woes is fuelling a xenophobic backlash evidenced by a surge in
September 06, 2024
China is ending foreign adoptions of its children. That leaves hundreds of American families in limbo
September 06, 2024
Argentina's monthly inflation rate stood at 3.9% in August and is expected to close the year at an annualized rate of nearly 123%, according to analysts surveyed by the
September 05, 2024
A court in the Brazilian state of Rondonia has found two beef slaughterhouses guilty of buying cattle out of what is supposed to be a protected area in the Brazilian Amazon, which is illegal
September 05, 2024
Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora say a Venezuela street gang with a small presence in the city has not taken over a rundown apartment complex
September 05, 2024
The board of Mexican bank regulator CNBV on Thursday approved the terms of a stock market reform passed last year, Deputy Finance Minister Gabriel Yorio, who spearheaded the
September 05, 2024
Automaker Stellantis will invest $385 million in its plant in the province of Cordoba, Argentina, between 2025 and 2030, the firm's South America head Emanuele Cappellano said on
September 05, 2024
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado is vowing to keep the pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to leave office in January
September 05, 2024
As billionaire Elon Musk’s clash with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice came to a head last week, there were legal twists, insults, ultimatums, defiance and then, finally, capitulation
September 05, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Haiti to reaffirm the government’s commitment to a multinational mission deployed to fight gangs in the Caribbean country and push for the organization of long-awaited general elections
September 05, 2024
The Central American Bank for Economic Integration said on Thursday it filed a lawsuit against its former president in U.S. district court that accuses him of attempted extortion and
September 05, 2024
Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Thursday she wants the United States to do "much more" to press President
September 05, 2024
The United States government says it has secured the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners who have arrived in Guatemala
September 05, 2024
The United States secured the release of dozens of political prisoners in Nicaragua on Thursday following talks with the government of President Daniel Ortega, who
September 05, 2024
Brazilians are split over Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes' order for social media giant X to be taken down in the country, a poll shows.
September 05, 2024
Brazil's real will continue to be restrained by worries about the fiscal situation in the near future despite an expected boost from a widely anticipated
September 05, 2024
Farm cooperatives in Brazil that supply some of the world's biggest multinational agricultural firms are buying soybeans grown illegally on Indigenous
September 05, 2024
Brazilian Justice Kassio Nunes Marques said the full Supreme Court will make the final decision on a case filed by a conservative political
September 05, 2024
In December, Drew, a 36-year-old man from San Antonio, Texas, drove more than 250 miles (400 km) to Mexico to buy cheap Ozempic to help him lose weight.
September 05, 2024
Mexico’s governing party says judges in the current court system are corrupt, and it wants to push through a unusual proposal to make the country’s entire judicial branch — some 7,000 judges —stand for election
September 05, 2024
Haiti has expanded its state of emergency to cover the entire nation's territory, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Garry Conille said on Wednesday, as the Caribbean country
September 05, 2024
Another plane linked to Venezuela’s Maduro is under investigation in the Dominican Republic
September 05, 2024
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday asked the attorney general's office to investigate the $11 million purchase of Pegasus spy software, which he said could have been
September 05, 2024
General Motors said on Wednesday that it would begin producing its first-ever hybrid-flex vehicles that can run on 100% ethanol or gasoline alongside their batteries in Brazil.
September 04, 2024
Brazil's Senate will vote on the nomination of current central bank's director Gabriel Galipolo as the new chief of the monetary authority on October 8, chief of the upper house
September 04, 2024
A leading anti-corruption activist called on Honduran President Xiomara Castro on Wednesday to resign after a video surfaced that appeared to show her brother-in-law
September 04, 2024
Brazil's government expects public debt linked to interest and foreign exchange rates to surpass half of the total debt this year, a level last seen in October
September 04, 2024
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September 04, 2024
The U.S. assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs says the U.S. is mulling a U.N. peacekeeping operation in Haiti as one way to secure funding and staffing for a current mission led by Kenya to quell gang violence in the Caribbean country
September 04, 2024
Two loggers have been killed by the reclusive Mashco Piro Indigenous tribe deep in Peru's Amazon
September 04, 2024
Colombia's peace efforts will not bear fruit while the Andean country is divided by social and economic strata comparable to India's caste system, a United Nations
September 04, 2024
El Salvador should end a long-running state of emergency and reinstate suspended constitutional rights after achieving significant security gains due to its
September 04, 2024
US service member detained in Venezuela, officials say
September 04, 2024
Mexico's lower house of Congress approved an overhaul of the country's judiciary early on Wednesday that would usher in a new era of
September 04, 2024
The lawyer for Venezuela opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez said on Wednesday the attorney general's office received his affidavit explaining why Gonzalez ignored three summons,
September 04, 2024
Protests by truckers in Colombia, who are angry at an increase in diesel prices, have cut off the country's biggest cities and are threatening fuel supplies, though the government
September 04, 2024
Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Wednesday that he trusts central bank officials when asked about the prospect of an interest rate hike at the upcoming monetary
September 04, 2024
Brazil's central bank said on Wednesday that credit growth and asset prices do not pose a medium-term concern, though it highlighted existing uncertainties that warrant ongoing
September 04, 2024
In a marathon session, Mexico's lower house of Congress approved on Wednesday morning a controversial judicial reform, a crucial step towards cementing a key ambition of
September 04, 2024
In a push to unlock more of the oil riches buried in a massive shale deposit in Argentina, Vista Energy will invest about $1.1 billion this year as it also
September 04, 2024
In the rugged Micay Canyon of southwestern Colombia, rebel groups have beefed up their presence over the past two years despite efforts by Colombian President Gustavo Petro to negotiate peace deals with these irregular armies under a strategy known as total peace
September 04, 2024
A global human rights watchdog has implicated Venezuelan security forces and pro-government armed groups in killings that occurred during the protests that followed the country’s disputed July presidential election
September 04, 2024
Two French rugby players are heading back to France nearly two months after their arrest in the South American nation on charges of aggravated sexual assault
September 04, 2024
The United States has seized Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro’s airplane after determining that its acquisition was in violation of US sanctions, among other criminal issues. CNN's Kylie Atwood reports.
September 03, 2024
Maduro decrees Christmas will start in October as Venezuela cracks down on dissent
September 03, 2024
In a marathon session, Mexico's lower house of Congress on Wednesday morning approved a controversial judicial reform, a crucial step toward cementing a key ambition of outgoing
September 03, 2024
A report from the United Nations released on Tuesday detailed alleged crimes committed by the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, including
September 03, 2024
China's electric automaker BYD said on Tuesday that it has not postponed "any decision" regarding its planned factory in Mexico, denying a report from earlier in the day.
September 03, 2024
The seven people killed in a weekend bus crash in Mississippi were all from Mexico
September 03, 2024
Italy's foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had summoned the Venezuelan chargée d'affaires in Rome to complain about the arrest warrant that has been issued against opposition leader
September 03, 2024
Brazil's top foreign policy adviser on Tuesday slammed Venezuela's arrest warrant for opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez as "very concerning" and
September 03, 2024
Protesters in Mexico City are blocking the entrance to Congress over proposals that would make judges stand for election
September 03, 2024
A Senate committee hearing to confirm President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's pick to head Brazil's central bank will not happen before the monetary authority's next interest rate-
September 03, 2024
Brazilian real estate firm HBR Realty said on Tuesday it has filed an eviction action against WeWork due to lack of payment, although the flexible workspace provider denied
September 03, 2024
Pay issues and shortages of equipment and manpower have sapped morale among Kenyan police officers deployed to Haiti and hampered their ability to
September 03, 2024
Venezuela opposition presidential candidate Gonzalez wanted for arrest for ‘crimes associated with terrorism’
September 02, 2024
A Venezuelan judge has issued an arrest warrant for the opposition’s former presidential candidate Edmundo González as part of a criminal investigation into the results of the disputed July election
September 02, 2024
Venezuela's attorney general's office said on Monday a court has issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, accusing him of
September 02, 2024
Argentine prosecutors say they would let two French rugby players accused of violently raping a woman to fly home, even as the explosive case remained under investigation
September 02, 2024
One of Venezuela's newest news anchors sits on a stool, dressed in a flannel shirt and chinos as he delivers the day's headlines.
September 02, 2024
The United States has seized a plane used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and flown it from the Dominican Republic to Florida after
September 02, 2024
Exclusive: US seizes Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro’s airplane in the Dominican Republic
September 02, 2024
A Brazilian Supreme Court panel has unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X nationwide
September 02, 2024
Last year's record drought in the Amazon and less than usual rainfall since caused river water levels to drop rapidly, hindering navigation by barges
September 02, 2024
Brazil's economy kept growing at a solid pace last quarter compared to the first three months of the year, supported by household expenditure, a Reuters poll
September 02, 2024
Authorities say a Kenyan man wanted in Massachusetts to face murder charges has been extradited nearly a year after he fled the United States
September 02, 2024
Mexico's Lower House of Congress is slated to open debate on Tuesday on a controversial judicial reform and is expected to pass the legislation later in the week,
September 02, 2024
A five-member panel of Brazil's Supreme Court will vote on Monday whether to uphold Justice Alexandre de Moraes' ruling to shut down social media platform X in the country.
September 01, 2024
China will urge a summit of 50 African nations in Beijing this week to take more of its goods, before Western curbs kick in on its exports such
September 01, 2024
California lawmakers passed just one part of a three-bill package addressing reparations for slavery and racism in the waning days of their state house session, amid
September 01, 2024
Usha Vance's presence in the Trump-Vance campaign has energized some Indian Americans, particularly Hindu American conservatives
September 01, 2024
The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil has divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians had difficulty and doubts about navigating other social media in its absence
August 31, 2024
A Mexican judge ordered the Lower House of Congress not to discuss controversial judicial reform scheduled to be taken up by lawmakers the first week of September, according to
August 31, 2024
Electricity returned to Caracas and other parts of Venezuela on Saturday after a blackout plunged much of the country into darkness on Friday, although Reuters witnesses reported
August 31, 2024
7 Mexican travelers, ages 8 to 63, killed and dozens more people hurt in Mississippi bus crash
August 31, 2024
U.S. authorities say arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico during August are expected to rise slightly from July
August 31, 2024
Brazilians will pay more for electricity in September as local power regulator Aneel decided to impose an additional charge on bills due to a drop in reservoir levels at
August 31, 2024
Brazil's government forecast economic growth of 2.6% and inflation of 3.3% for 2025 in its draft budget proposal for the coming year, which was submitted to Congress late Friday.
August 30, 2024
Lionel Messi will not play Saturday when Inter Miami visits Chicago, meaning he will have at least two more weeks to continue recovering from an ankle injury
August 30, 2024
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, one of Mexico’s most-feared drug lords, has been released from a U.S. prison after serving most of a 25-year prison sentence
August 30, 2024
Cuban health authorities launched small-scale fumigation efforts in Havana on Friday to fight the spread of the Oropouche virus, but a rainy Caribbean summer, fuel shortages and
August 30, 2024
Argentina arrests man accused of links to 1978 killing by leftwing terror group
August 30, 2024
Brazil Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Friday that the government should close this year within the tolerance band of its fiscal target if Congress approves the
August 30, 2024
At least two people died in Brazil after the roof of a church in the coastal city of Recife collapsed on Friday, city hall and state authorities said.
August 30, 2024
According to official data, at least 115,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since 1952
August 30, 2024
According to official data, at least 115,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since 1952
August 30, 2024
Venezuelans awoke Friday to a major power outage in the capital, Caracas, and several states
August 30, 2024
Power had returned to some parts of Venezuela on Friday evening after capital Caracas and much of the rest of the country were plunged into a blackout that
August 30, 2024
The United Nations has released $100 million to support 10 underfunded humanitarian crises in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, the U.N. said on Friday.
August 30, 2024
U.S. jobs numbers dominate the agenda as markets brace for a choppy September, with France seeking a way through its political mess, Germany having regional polls and African leaders
August 30, 2024
Three years ago, the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan when the last American plane departed Kabul
August 30, 2024
Washington urged Honduras to reconsider its intention to leave a long-standing extradition treaty on Thursday, as Honduran
August 29, 2024
Prosecutors in Mexico are suggesting U.S. authorities made a deal with a Mexican drug lord who turned in himself and another capo to get his brother transferred out of a U.S. prison
August 29, 2024
Ecuador’s Ministry for Energy and Mines says it has begun to dismantle infrastructure on a controversial oil drilling block in Yasuni National Park, home to the Waorani Indigenous people
August 29, 2024
Nicaragua's government has banned 169 non-governmental organizations for allegedly not complying with sector regulations, according to a resolution published on Thursday in the government
August 29, 2024
The United States government will resume an updated version of a migrant sponsorship program that it had paused earlier this summer over
August 29, 2024
Taiwan's embassy in Haiti on Thursday presented Haiti's national police and army with protective equipment such as helmets, tactical kneepads, eye protectors and bulletproof
August 29, 2024
The Biden administration is restarting an immigration program that allows migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to come to the United States
August 29, 2024
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the country's telecommunications regulator Anatel to shut down Elon Musk's social media platform X after the billionaire failed
August 29, 2024
Nippon Steel Corp. is raising its capital commitment by more than $1 billion to spend on U.S. Steel's plants amid entrenched political and labor opposition to the Japanese company’s acquisition of the American steelmaker
August 29, 2024
Four months after devastating flooding wrecked their house in southern Brazil, Milton do Nascimento and his family still have no permanent home and are sleeping
August 29, 2024
In Bolivia's lowland region of Santa Cruz, farmer Mario Guasasi packed up his belongings this week, putting mattresses, food,
August 29, 2024
European Union foreign ministers agreed on Thursday they would not recognise the "democratic legitimacy" of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro following the country's disputed election
August 29, 2024
US security official meets China’s Xi as American election looms large over relations
August 29, 2024
The United States will work with Pacific Island nations to rein in drug trafficking by criminal networks from China, which use the region as a way station for
August 29, 2024
The twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago is debating whether it should remove statues, signs and monuments with colonial ties and how those spaces should be used instead
August 29, 2024
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice is threatening to shut down the operations of X, formerly Twitter, in that country unless its billionaire owner Elon Musk names a legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours
August 29, 2024
Social media giant X said on Thursday it expects Brazil's top court to order it to shut down, as a pitched legal
August 28, 2024
Smoke from wildfires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is causing people in the region to cough, burning their throats and reddening their eyes
August 28, 2024
Gabriel Galipolo, picked to be the next head of Brazil's central bank, is a 42-year-old economist who has not always expressed mainstream orthodox economic views.
August 28, 2024
Rio de Janeiro police carried out 16 search warrants targeting the claw machines that elicit exhilaration among children and adults alike across the city
August 28, 2024
Following a pair of defections by opposition senators, Mexico’s ruling party is edging closer to a steamroller two-thirds majority in both houses of congress
August 28, 2024
Honduras' foreign ministry on Wednesday said it would end a more than a century-old extradition treaty with the U.S. after Washington's
August 28, 2024
The Bank of Mexico cut its forecast for economic growth this year and next, according to the central bank's quarterly report on Wednesday, citing weaker foreign
August 28, 2024
Mexico's ruling coalition fell just one senator short of securing a supermajority in the Senate on Wednesday after two opposition senators flipped, according to President-elect
August 28, 2024
Venezuela's opposition coalition said on Wednesday that party leader Biagio Pilieri was arrested in Caracas after appearing at a rally alongside coalition leader Maria Corina
August 28, 2024
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has picked central bank monetary policy director Gabriel Galipolo to be the institution's next governor,
August 28, 2024
Brazil's economy created a net 188,021 formal jobs in July, labor ministry data released on Wednesday showed, slightly below the expectation of 190,000 jobs from economists polled
August 28, 2024
Biden administration may soon restart key immigration program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
August 28, 2024
Supporters of Venezuela's political opposition and backers of the ruling party each held rallies on
August 28, 2024
The United Nations on Wednesday said journalist Jose Ruben Zamora, imprisoned in Guatemala over the last two years, is being held in potentially life-threatening, inhumane
August 28, 2024
A senior U.S. general accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday of undermining the democratic will of Venezuela's people following July's disputed
August 28, 2024
Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro are taking to the streets in an attempt to revive protests against him following last month’s disputed election
August 28, 2024
A controversial reform of Mexico's judiciary will be debated and voted on in Congress next week, a leading ruling party lawmaker said on Wednesday, amid concerns from Canada
August 28, 2024
Voters in Ecuador last year approved a referendum to keep some 700 million barrels of crude oil in the ground in Yasuni National Park
August 28, 2024
Canada's main stock index extended its pullback from a record high on Wednesday, as profit-taking in most sectors of the market offset gains for financials after stronger-
August 28, 2024
Thousands of young Haitians are jumping at the chance to become soldiers as widespread gang violence creates rare job opportunities in a deeply impoverished country where work is scarce
August 28, 2024
Top Chinese and U.S. officials discussed holding fresh talks between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping in the near future, the two
August 28, 2024
South American football was in mourning on Tuesday following the death of Uruguayan defender Juan Izquierdo, who collapsed on the pitch after suffering an irregular heartbeat during a Copa
August 28, 2024
Nicaragua’s Ortega offers to send ‘fighters’ to Venezuela after disputed election
August 28, 2024
Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Tuesday that he suggested to the country's president that the nomination of the next central bank head should be revealed between
August 27, 2024
Brazilian miner Vale's decision this week to announce a new chief executive sought to avoid further market speculation over other potential candidates, the
August 27, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has named the ruling socialist party boss to oversee the country’s police forces
August 27, 2024
Mexico pauses relations with US and Canadian embassies
August 27, 2024
Mexico’s president says he has put relations with the United States and Canadian embassies “on pause” after the two countries voiced concerns over a proposed controversial judicial overhaul
August 27, 2024
The United States has "significant concerns" about issues which could spring up as a result of the popular election of judges in Mexico, the U.S. embassy said in a diplomatic
August 27, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday he will change half of his 30-member cabinet, which includes military leaders.
August 27, 2024
Peaceful street protests and international pressure still have the potential to unseat Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, opposition leader Maria Corina Machado
August 27, 2024
Shares of Vale rose on Tuesday as analysts and investors welcomed the appointment of Gustavo Pimenta as the Brazilian miner's next CEO, starting next year.
August 27, 2024
The Colombian unit of bank BBVA has issued ordinary shares worth 877 billion pesos ($218 million), the Colombian stock exchange said in a statement on Tuesday.
August 27, 2024
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday made major changes to his cabinet, including leadership of the oil and finance ministries and state oil company PDVSA, after a
August 27, 2024
The Mexican government has paused its relationship with the U.S. and Canadian embassies in the country, President Andres Manuel Lopez
August 27, 2024
Brazil's lower house of Congress on Tuesday created a committee to monitor investigations into an aircraft crash in Sao Paulo state earlier this month, in which
August 27, 2024
Brazil's Senate Economic Affairs Committee (CAE) will not hold a confirmation hearing next week for the candidate chosen
August 27, 2024
‘Too good to be true’: Travelers score cheap first-class flights from Australia to US due to Qantas glitch
August 27, 2024
A top White House official has arrived in China for talks on a relationship that has been severely tested during President Joe Biden’s term in office
August 27, 2024
A former head of investigations for Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office told officials investigating the 2014 disappearance of 43 students that the so-called “historic truth” presented to the public weeks later was cooked up by the highest ranking officials in the Mexican government
August 26, 2024
Four men have been arrested on suspicion of setting fires
August 26, 2024
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday was meeting with nearly three dozen athletes from the nation’s Olympic delegation in the capital, Brasilia
August 26, 2024
Emergency crews in the Alaska tourist hub of Ketchikan braced on Monday for more landslides after a large, rain-drenched slope gave way on Sunday, killing one person,
August 26, 2024
The buildings in Brazil’s modernist capital, Brasilia, have been enveloped in smoky air the past two days
August 26, 2024
Mexico’s traditional and Indigenous community police forces are coming under increasingly deadly fire from drug cartels
August 26, 2024
The International Monetary Fund on Monday named Jamaican Finance Minister Nigel Clarke to a top post at the agency, after the official spearheaded fiscal reforms in the Caribbean
August 26, 2024
A well-known Venezuelan entertainment journalist arrested in Caracas over the weekend has been released, a media union said on Monday, but she faces terrorism charges as the
August 26, 2024
The Colombian airlines Avianca and Latam Colombia say they will operate most of their flights Tuesday and resume full schedules Wednesday, after warning earlier Monday that they would have to cancel dozens of flights due to shortages of jet fuel
August 26, 2024
Two of the largest sugar and ethanol producers in Brazil late on Monday disclosed initial estimates of damages from fires that
August 26, 2024
Ramón Jesurún had charges of battering a security guard at the Copa America final dropped more than a month after the Colombian soccer federation president and his son were arrested at the match where hundreds of fans forced their way into Hard Rock Stadium
August 26, 2024
Venezuela’s ‘little commandos’ took on Maduro. Now they may be leading a new wave of migration
August 26, 2024
The office of Venezuela's top prosecutor issued a second summons on Monday for opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez to be questioned about an opposition website that published
August 26, 2024
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his elected successor defended their proposed judicial overhaul on Monday, as a major U.S. business lobby added its voice to
August 26, 2024
It was June 12, Lover's Day in Brazil.
August 26, 2024
Protesters have marched across Mexico in the latest opposition to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposed judicial overhaul and other moves by the governing party that critics say will weaken democratic checks and balances
August 25, 2024
A well-known Venezuelan journalist was detained in Caracas on Sunday by police who raided her home, according to a journalists union and a local rights organization.
August 25, 2024
Mexico City’s Hera HSBC music festival brought together an all-female lineup of both Latina and international talent including Kesha, Demi Lovato and Camila Cabello
August 25, 2024
A New York man died while on a solo trip to Colombia. It took his grieving mother 5 months to learn what happened
August 25, 2024
Wildfires blazed through sugarcane fields in northern Sao Paulo state on Saturday, sending up clouds of smoke that covered nearby towns so thoroughly that officials prohibited
August 24, 2024
Brazil's central bank chief said on Saturday that discussing monetary policy transmission will become increasingly difficult without addressing
August 24, 2024
Two elderly women from Arizona were shot dead in a vehicle along a highway in Mexico's northern Sonora state, local prosecutors said on Friday, adding they had immediately
August 24, 2024
Brazil's Sao Paulo state said that wildfire outbreaks were affecting or closing in on 30 of its cities on Friday evening, adding two people had died in an industrial plant trying
August 23, 2024
Mexico’s electoral institute has voted to give the governing Morena party and its allies about 73% of seats in the lower house of Congress, even though the coalition won only about 60% of the votes in the June 2 elections
August 23, 2024
Mexico's electoral authority on Friday confirmed that ruling party Morena and its allies will hold a two-thirds supermajority in the lower house but fall just short
August 23, 2024
Venezuela’s government will order former opposition candidate Edmundo González to provide sworn testimony in an ongoing investigation into what it considers attempts to spread panic in the South American country by contesting the results of last month’s presidential election
August 23, 2024
Drought and crop failure are a pervasive threat in Guatemala where hunger and malnutrition run rampant, particularly in rural areas - a reality that
August 23, 2024
The United States said on Friday it had asked Mexico to review alleged worker rights violations at tire maker Pirelli's facility in Silao de la Victoria city, the 26th U.S.
August 23, 2024
Former Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez will be asked to testify about an opposition website where voting tallies from a
August 23, 2024
Hundreds of migrants from India, Nepal and Vietnam have been stuck in Sao Paulo's international airport for weeks in alarming conditions,
August 23, 2024
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday that his government would wait for Venezuela's government to publish local vote tallies from the South American
August 23, 2024
Power outages totaling 14 hours or more per day were reported on Thursday across much of crisis-racked Cuba, leaving millions of
August 23, 2024
Mexico's president on Friday blasted the U.S. ambassador's criticism of his judicial reform bill as disrespectful, pointing to what he called a long
August 23, 2024
Sullivan to China next week, sources say, as US works to manage bilateral relationship
August 23, 2024
Canada's main stock index rose to a record high on Friday, with energy and financials contributing to broad-based gains as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell endorsed the
August 23, 2024
The CBP One app has been around, but as of Friday migrants in Mexico’s southernmost states bordering Guatemala will be able to apply for appointments to seek U.S. asylum
August 23, 2024
Nicaragua’s government has closed another 151 nongovernmental organizations, among them some of the most important trade organizations, including the American Chamber of Commerce
August 23, 2024
The legislature of Mexico City has approved the most ambitious rent control law since the 1940s, which will limit increases to the inflation rate each year
August 23, 2024
Argentine President Javier Milei will veto a pension reform passed on Thursday by the Senate in a move that is likely to widen an ongoing rift between the libertarian leader
August 22, 2024
Panama to launch deportation flights to China and India, as well as regional neighbors
August 22, 2024
The proposed reform of Mexico's judiciary threatens the country's democracy and its vital trade relationship with the United States, the top U.S. diplomat in Mexico said on
August 22, 2024
Authorities in the United States and Guatemala said on Thursday they dismantled a human-smuggling network with ties to the deaths of 53 migrants on a sweltering truck in Texas
August 22, 2024
Mexico's statistics agency INEGI released on Thursday a series of data showing that inflation slowed more than expected while growth remained tepid, opening the door for
August 22, 2024
Venezuela’s Supreme Court has backed President Nicolas Maduro’s claims that he won last month’s election and said voting tallies published online showing he lost by a landslide were forged
August 22, 2024
Venezuela's Supreme Justice Tribunal on Thursday ratified President Nicolas Maduro's victory in the July 28 presidential election, sealing institutional backing for the ruling party
August 22, 2024
Shipping company Maersk is evaluating contingency strategies in Canada, the company said on Thursday after the country's two main freight rail companies shut down their networks
August 22, 2024
Panama's government announced on Thursday additional deportation flights for migrants apprehended in the Central American nation to Ecuador, India and China, in a bid to reduce
August 22, 2024
A team of biologists, vets and fishermen
August 22, 2024
Police in St Petersburg have detained an Israeli-Canadian racing car driver wanted by the United States for alleged fraud relating to an illegal online stock trading scheme, the
August 22, 2024
Wind and solar energy producers in Brazil have warned they are reconsidering future investments there after the national grid operator repeatedly capped how
August 22, 2024
The daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother, both immigrants, Kamala Harris reflects the United States' changing demographics.
August 22, 2024
U.S. authorities have announced the indictment of a Guatemalan suspect who they say helped coordinate a human smuggling effort that ended with 53 migrants dead in a sweltering tractor-trailer in San Antonio
August 22, 2024
The strange saga of how two Mexican drug lords were detained after landing in a plane in the United States in July just got stranger
August 22, 2024
Brazil will tighten up rules to enter the country without a visa starting next week, the government said on Wednesday, after migrants have been increasingly using
August 22, 2024
Guatemalan police have arrested seven Guatemalans accused of having smuggled 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America who died of asphyxiation in 2022 in Texas after being abandoned in a tractor trailer in the scorching summer heat
August 21, 2024
Tyler Johnson and his father were hunting in the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska when a brown bear attacked them. Hear them recount what happened in the moments after.
August 21, 2024
El Salvador, a small Central American nation whose government has spearheaded a brutal crackdown on criminal gangs, is seeing one person go missing each day, according to a
August 21, 2024
Guatemalan prosecutors on Wednesday filed a request to strip President Bernardo Arevalo of the criminal immunity granted to his role so he can face charges for alleged abuse
August 21, 2024
Brazil will begin imposing restrictions on the entry of some foreign citizens from Asia who are seeking refuge in the country as a means to migrate to the United States and Canada
August 21, 2024
Mexican airline Viva Aerobus believes the U.S. government's pause on reviewing a proposed tie-up with Nevada-based Allegiant Air is political rather than
August 21, 2024
Paraguayan President Santiago Pena said on Wednesday he was "fully open" to trade deals with China via the South American trade bloc
August 21, 2024
Paraguay's economy is on track to grow a faster-than-expected 4% this year, President Santiago Pena told Reuters on Wednesday, a bullish
August 21, 2024
Canada's TD Bank Group said it would set aside $2.6 billion more for penalties related to U.S. regulatory probes into deficiencies in its anti-money
August 21, 2024
Gwen Walz and Tim Walz are known as a team. But Minnesota’s first lady has been a powerful force in her own right
August 21, 2024
Judges and magistrates joined a strike on Wednesday as protests against a judicial reform pushed by outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
August 21, 2024
Argentina's economic activity fell 3.9% in June compared to the same month last year, official data showed on Wednesday, as the economy shrunk again during the month after a
August 21, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD has narrowed its list of finalists for the location of a manufacturing plant in Mexico down to three states and is
August 21, 2024
A judicial reform planned by Mexico's government will not violate the country's commitments with the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), President-elect Claudia
August 21, 2024
A rehabilitated sea turtle has been released back into the Atlantic Ocean from a Florida beach
August 21, 2024
Investment bank Morgan Stanley issued an "underweight" warning on Mexican shares on Wednesday due to concerns about planned changes to the judiciary and electoral
August 21, 2024
Amid stifling heat and humidity in the remote Colombian jungle, guerrillas carrying machine guns and rifles creep their way through the
August 21, 2024
Over a hundred employees at Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA, plus others in the oil ministry and
August 21, 2024
Chile's SQM, the world's second-largest lithium producer, reported a bigger-than-expected 63.2% slide in its quarterly profit on Wednesday due to weak prices of the battery metal,
August 21, 2024
The Dominican Republic on Tuesday said it will create a state mining firm to explore and exploit the nation's key mining resources, including rare earth minerals.
August 20, 2024
The Brazilian Senate approved a bill on Tuesday containing measures to offset the effects of a payroll tax exemption, in a key step to solve a months-long struggle between Congress
August 20, 2024
Panama deports 29 Colombian migrants on first US-funded repatriation flight
August 20, 2024
Argentine authorities have quarantined a cargo ship in the Parana River over a suspected case of mpox onboard, the government said on
August 20, 2024
US sanctions former Haitian President Martelly over drug trafficking allegations
August 20, 2024
The murders of about a dozen people in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa appear to be linked to cartel infighting, something authorities had feared would follow the July 25 detention of two top cartel leaders
August 20, 2024
Over 1,000 more judges and magistrates in Mexico have voted to join an indefinite nationwide strike that began on Monday amid mounting protest against a plan by the ruling
August 20, 2024
Tens of thousands of customers are still without power across Puerto Rico, a week after Ernesto swiped the U.S. territory as a tropical storm
August 20, 2024
A looming stoppage of freight railway operations across Canada would disrupt North America's agricultural supply chain, snarling
August 20, 2024
Argentina's economic activity likely fell in June versus the same month a year earlier, analysts said, back in the red after a rare rise the month before amid
August 20, 2024
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the former president of Haiti, Michel Joseph Martelly, following accusations that he abused his influence to facilitate drug trafficking into the U.S. and sponsored gangs that have contributed to instability in the Caribbean country
August 20, 2024
The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Haiti's former president, Michel Joseph Martelly, over drug trafficking allegations, accusing him of playing a significant role in
August 20, 2024
Panama has deported 29 Colombians on a flight that the government says is the first paid for by the United States under an agreement the two countries signed in July
August 20, 2024
Officials in Trinidad and Tobago are redrawing the island’s coat of arms for the first time since its creation in 1962 to remove references to European colonization in a move that many are celebrating
August 20, 2024
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August 20, 2024
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