World leaders are heading to South America for twin summits this month, with one major theme dominating: Donald Trump 2.0.
November 13, 2024
The United Nations' annual climate conference continued Wednesday with brief speeches by nations big and small
November 13, 2024
Mexican law enforcement announced on Tuesday the arrest of a top municipal security official for the assassination of the mayor of the capital of the violence-plagued state of
November 13, 2024
Mexico plans to set aside about $6 billion from its 2025 draft budget for heavily indebted national oil company Pemex and would help its debt obligations next year, Bloomberg News reported
November 12, 2024
Nearly 2,400 workers continue to strike as of Tuesday across Kaiser Permanente mental health facilities in Southern California.
November 12, 2024
At least 15 dead as inmates clash at notorious Ecuadorian prison
November 12, 2024
Dominican Republic prosecutors say Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco was charged with illegally carrying a gun in his vehicle during the altercation in a parking lot that led to his arrest over the weekend
November 12, 2024
Argentina’s inflation has slowed to 2.7% in October, the lowest level in three years in a win for the libertarian government of President Javier Milei
November 12, 2024
Ecuador international soccer player Marco Angulo dies aged 22 following car crash
November 12, 2024
A fight among inmates has left 15 dead and 14 injured at Ecuador’s largest prison
November 12, 2024
The Federal Aviation Administration is prohibiting U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot two planes
November 12, 2024
Argentine inflation has dipped to 193%, landing below the 200% threshold for the first time in close to a year, data from statistics agency INDEC showed on Tuesday, as
November 12, 2024
Latin American poverty levels in 2023 fell to a 33-year low, led by progress in Brazil, the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the
November 12, 2024
Brazilian vice-president Geraldo Alckmin said on Tuesday that Brazil will have a rigorous fiscal policy, as Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government hesitates to announce new
November 12, 2024
Retail sales in Brazil rose less than expected in September but recovered from a fall in the previous month, as the strength of Latin America's largest economy keeps in focus
November 12, 2024
Canada's energy industry does not expect U.S.
November 12, 2024
President Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first leftist leader, promised his government would acquire 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land for
November 12, 2024
Brazil's Banco BTG Pactual's third-quarter adjusted net income jumped 15% from the same period last year supported by higher revenue and improved operational leverage.
November 12, 2024
Bayer said on Tuesday that weak agricultural markets mean its earnings are likely to fall further next year, sparking a sharp fall in the
November 12, 2024
Mexico's Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard suggested on Monday that the Mexican government could retaliate with its own tariffs on U.S. imports if the incoming Trump
November 12, 2024
Brazil's finance minister said on Monday that remaining stumbling blocks to a fiscal package aimed at curbing mandatory expenses had been resolved, but added that President Luiz
November 11, 2024
FAA grounds all US flights to Haiti after three planes were struck by gunfire
November 11, 2024
Haiti’s international airport was shut down after gangs opened fire at a commercial flight landing in Port-Au-Prince
November 11, 2024
Swimmer goes missing following distress call in South Beach; search efforts continue
November 11, 2024
A Spirit Airlines flight destined for the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince was struck by gunfire on Monday, forcing it to be diverted to the neighboring Dominican Republic.
November 11, 2024
Police say Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco has been arrested for his involvement in an armed altercation in a parking lot in the Dominican Republic countryside
November 11, 2024
Brazil's currency weakened on Monday as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's administration postponed the release of long-awaited spending-containment measures, despite earlier
November 11, 2024
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday that she would renew an agreement with food producers and retailers to keep the price of a set of basic groceries affordable
November 11, 2024
Violence and crime absorb almost 3.5% of Latin America and the Caribbean's (LAC) economic output, depleting funds that could be used in education and assisting
November 11, 2024
Brazil's president vowed to beat the "speculative greed" of financial markets in an interview broadcast late on Sunday and urged Congress to set an example by cutting spending as
November 11, 2024
SANTOS, Brazil - Three hundred surfers over the age of 50 gathered at the weekend in Santos, Sao Paulo to attempt a world record for the most people riding the same wave.
November 11, 2024
CNN's Ed Lavandera talks with Latino voters about the issues that pushed them to vote for Donald Trump for US president over Kamala Harris.
November 11, 2024
In South American copper giant Peru, the incoming Donald Trump White House will find itself already on the losing side in a trade battle
November 11, 2024
A decline in U.S. influence in Africa means U.S.
November 11, 2024
Mexico is facing a second Donald Trump presidency, and few countries can match its experience as a target of Trump’s rhetoric: There have been threats to close the border, impose tariffs and even send U.S. forces to fight Mexican drug cartels if the country doesn’t do more to stem the flow of migrants and drugs
November 11, 2024
Chevron Corp has started redeploying personnel and restoring production at its Gulf Of Mexico platforms that were closed for Hurricane Rafael, the company said on Sunday.
November 11, 2024
More than a 1,000 mariachis have gathered in Mexico City’s main plaza, strumming guitars and singing classics like “Cielito Lindo” to end a mariachi congress celebrating the musical form
November 11, 2024
Haiti will name entrepreneur and former senate candidate Alix Didier Fils-Aime to replace Prime Minister Garry Conille, who was tapped for the role in May,
November 10, 2024
A transitionary council created to reestablish democratic order in Haiti has signed a decree firing interim Prime Minister Garry Conille
November 10, 2024
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 has shaken eastern Cuba after weeks of hurricanes and blackouts that have left many on the island reeling
November 10, 2024
Cuban authorities said late on Saturday they would not tolerate "public disorder" as the island's emergency workers cleared debris and worked to restore power to parts of western
November 10, 2024
Winger Tim Weah was picked for the U.S. roster for the CONCACAF Nations League quarterfinals against Jamaica but must sit out coach Mauricio Pochettino’s first competitive match while completing a suspension for his red card in the Copa America loss to Panama
November 10, 2024
The two biggest events in world sports are coming to America
November 10, 2024
US plans to appeal judge’s ruling allowing plea deals with alleged 9/11 conspirators
November 10, 2024
Canada has detected its first presumptive case of H5 bird flu in a person, a teenager in the western province of British Columbia, health officials said on Saturday.
November 10, 2024
Brazil announced details of its new climate change pledge late on Friday night that sets a target to lower the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 2035, which it will
November 09, 2024
Ecuador's Labor Ministry has temporarily suspended Vice President Veronica Abad from office just three months before next year's elections in which President Daniel Noboa will seek
November 09, 2024
Southern California firefighters have gained ground on a wildfire that has ravaged more than 100 structures
November 09, 2024
A constitutional court in Bolivia has barred former President Evo Morales from running again for office, ushering in a new phase in the country's long-running political crisis.
November 09, 2024
Hundreds of Bolivian devotees have arrived at the municipal cemetery of La Paz carrying human skulls adorned with flowers for the Ñatitas festival
November 08, 2024
A man was shot and killed on Friday afternoon at Sao Paulo's international airport, Brazil's busiest, authorities said, with local media reporting the
November 08, 2024
Peru and China will sign an
November 08, 2024
Spain’s largest telecommunications operator will pay more than $85 million to resolve a U.S. Justice Department investigation into a scheme to bribe Venezuelan officials with a lavish Caribbean vacation and expensive watches
November 08, 2024
Joe Biden will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Brazilian Amazon when he travels to Manaus later this month, a symbolic trip given the
November 08, 2024
Mexico will continue pursuing measures to stop migrants from reaching its northern border with the United States, its top diplomat said on
November 08, 2024
Extreme weather in Mexico is contributing to undocumented migration and return between Mexico and the United States
November 08, 2024
Under the global spotlight, tens of millions of Americans went to the polls this week to vote for their next president in an election that offered two very different choices for their
November 08, 2024
President Tayyip Erdogan called Donald Trump a "friend" in welcoming his return to the White House, and invited him for a visit despite longstanding strains in Turkish-U.S. ties including
November 08, 2024
Canadian police and migrant aid groups are bracing for an influx of asylum-seekers fleeing President-elect Donald Trump's United States at the same time
November 08, 2024
As U.S. election exit polls began to point to a second presidency for Donald Trump, many Americans were already looking for another kind of exit: moving abroad.
November 08, 2024
‘We barely made it out’: Californians desperately flee their homes amid raging wildfires
November 08, 2024
Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election instantly changed calculations for millions of migrants or potential migrants across the globe
November 08, 2024
It’s Friday night in Downtown Santiago, the capital of Chile, and a group of 15 people gather around a table
November 08, 2024
The White House says President Joe Biden will become the first sitting president to visit the Amazon rainforest later this month when he travels to Brazil as part of a six-day trip to Latin America
November 07, 2024
Canada's exports of canola oil and forest products from West Coast ports have halted due to a labor dispute, producers said on Thursday.
November 07, 2024
Members of U.S.
November 07, 2024
Argentine prosecutors say that three people have been charged in connection with the death of Liam Payne, a former member of musical group One Direction, who died after falling from the balcony of his hotel room in Buenos Aires last month
November 07, 2024
Republicans had a big night in South Texas, flipping predominately Hispanic counties along the US-Mexico border
November 07, 2024
Three people have been charged in relation to One Direction singer Liam Payne's death in a fall from his Buenos Aires hotel balcony last month, Argentine authorities said on
November 07, 2024
Three people face preliminary charges over Liam Payne’s death in Buenos Aires
November 07, 2024
Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei will meet with U.S.
November 07, 2024
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is re-establishing a special Cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations to address his administration’s concerns about another Donald Trump presidency
November 07, 2024
Brazil's government denied on Thursday a report by CNN Brasil saying its highly anticipated package to rein in mandatory expenses would involve cuts of up to just 15
November 07, 2024
Authorities in Guerrero, one of Mexico's most violent states, said Thursday they found the remains of 11 people in the capital Chilpancingo, marking what appears to be another
November 07, 2024
Mexico's economy chief will try to meet soon with Tesla's chief executive Elon Musk to determine his plans for an electric car factory in northern Mexico, he told local radio on
November 07, 2024
Donald Trump's electoral victory in the United States has injected new energy into Brazil's hard right and stirred hopes that former President Jair Bolsonaro can
November 07, 2024
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke with President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday morning, and described the first telephone call between the leaders since Tuesday's U.S.
November 07, 2024
For some Americans living in Europe, relief from some of the smaller stresses of US life makes for a more relaxed existence
November 07, 2024
Cuban authorities said they had begun restoring power to the eastern half of the island on Thursday, a day after Hurricane Rafael knocked
November 07, 2024
A caravan of thousands of migrants traveling through Mexico with the hope of reaching the U.S. had shrunk to about half its original
November 07, 2024
Chinese imports of U.S. farm goods, which have slowed since the trade war during Donald Trump's first presidential term, could be hit again if tariff hostilities
November 07, 2024
Asian equities, excluding China, witnessed sharp foreign outflows in October, as investors wary of the U.S. presidential election outcome reacted to concerns over weaker-
November 07, 2024
Cuba has been left reeling after a fierce Category 3 hurricane ripped across western portions of the island, knocking out the country’s power grid, downing trees and damaging infrastructure
November 07, 2024
Plea deals agreed with the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks and two accomplices held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were valid, according to a
November 07, 2024
Automakers are bracing for President-elect Donald Trump to impose new tariffs on vehicles from Mexico and potentially from
November 06, 2024
Coty on Wednesday said it expects annual profit to come in at the low end of its forecast, as weak demand for beauty products in major markets such as the United States and Australia
November 06, 2024
Latino voters from battleground states North Carolina and Pennsylvania reacted to Donald Trump's win. Support for Trump among Latino voters was at a historic high in 2024.
November 06, 2024
The body of pop star Liam Payne, who died in Buenos Aires last month, has been taken from the city's British cemetery on route to the airport, a senior
November 06, 2024
Argentina's dollar bonds jumped in early trade on Wednesday and the country's risk index dropped sharply, with investors cheering the prospect of closer ties
November 06, 2024
Spanish police have made a record cocaine seizure after finding 13 metric tons of the drug hidden in a shipment of bananas in a container from Ecuador in the
November 06, 2024
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday congratulated former U.S.
November 06, 2024
Hurricane Rafael knocks out Cuba’s power grid and heads into the Gulf on a much different path
November 06, 2024
Brazil's Finance Minister said on Wednesday the government has concluded talks on new measures to strengthen the fiscal framework, seen as crucial to improve the
November 06, 2024
Brazil's annual inflation is forecast to have reached a one-year high in October on steeper energy and meat prices caused by a severe drought, while a host of risks
November 06, 2024
Mexico must maneuver carefully now that Donald Trump has secured his return to the U.S. presidency, but Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum
November 06, 2024
Cuba's national electrical grid collapsed on Wednesday as Hurricane Rafael slammed into the island's southwest shore, packing sustained winds of 115
November 06, 2024
Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election drew mixed reactions among ordinary Iranians, with some fearing a heightened risk of war and economic
November 06, 2024
Jenniffer González of Puerto Rico's pro-statehood New Progressive Party is leading polls in a historic gubernatorial election that could see her party secure a third consecutive term for the first time
November 06, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has made a flurry of picks for his cabinet and other high-ranking administration positions following his election victory.
November 06, 2024
Mexico's peso was narrowly weaker on Wednesday after largely recovering from a slump earlier in the day to its
November 06, 2024
China’s state media focuses on US divisions as America awaits election results
November 06, 2024
The Mexican peso sank against the U.S. dollar as results in the U.S. presidential election rolled in, extending a streak of volatility which has hit the currency
November 06, 2024
Wall Street tore to record highs on Wednesday and major stock markets around the world surged, while bitcoin hit an all-time-high and
November 06, 2024
Oil prices settled lower on Wednesday as investors weighed a strong U.S. dollar against the potential that U.S.
November 06, 2024
Hurricane Rafael has pushed into the Gulf of Mexico after plowing across western Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane with winds so powerful it knocked out the entire country’s power grid
November 06, 2024
Hurricane Rafael is passing through the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean and is forecast to rapidly intensify before making landfall in western Cuba, according to the U.S.
November 05, 2024
Brazil's government is preparing measures to curb spending that would put health and education expenditures under a general cap that
November 05, 2024
The European Union expects to close the trade agreement with South American bloc Mercosur by the end of the year, the EU commissioner for crisis management
November 05, 2024
A caravan of approximately 3,000 migrants set off on Tuesday from southern Mexico, headed toward the United States on the day when U.S
November 05, 2024
Mexico's controversial judicial reform requiring direct election of judges and magistrates emerged mostly unscathed on Tuesday from a Supreme Court vote on whether
November 05, 2024
An extended delay in enacting reforms in Chile aimed at expediting mining permits represents a "serious" problem for the industry in the world's top copper-producing country, the
November 05, 2024
World leaders from major economies including the United States, the European Union and Brazil are planning to skip this year's
November 05, 2024
Brazil's government continued high-level discussions on Tuesday towards the announcement of anticipated spending control measures seen as crucial for sustaining fiscal rules,
November 05, 2024
Blackouts on the Caribbean island are shining a light on a crumbling economy that the nation’s communist leaders may struggle to emerge from.
November 05, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump warned on Monday that, if elected, he would punish Mexico and China with tariffs unless both governments moved to stop the flow of
November 05, 2024
Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad presented fiscal proposals under discussion to other cabinet members and to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a meeting on Monday,
November 04, 2024
Hangzhou Duojia Technology, which distributes solar technology to Cuba, called a Cuban plan to dramatically boost solar generation a win for both countries, touting
November 04, 2024
Brazil's Itau Unibanco, Latin America's largest private lender, on Monday bumped up its estimated portfolio growth for the year after logging an 18% increase in
November 04, 2024
Mexico's Congress will likely be able to pass a constitutional reform abolishing certain autonomous institutions by mid-November, the lower house's leader said on Monday.
November 04, 2024
Argentina's showman libertarian President Javier Milei sang along to Elvis Presley on Monday even as he took aim at officials he called "traitors" for defying
November 04, 2024
Florida voters rejected ballot measures to protect abortion rights and legalize marijuana
November 04, 2024
Brazilian police have indicted a Colombian fish trader as the person who planned the slayings of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips in the Amazon in 2022, they announced Monday
November 04, 2024
The judge and senator who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Canadian residential schools' abuse of Indigenous children has died.
November 04, 2024
Mexico’s Defense Department claims the National Guard has killed two Colombians and wounded four others in a confrontation near the U.S. border
November 04, 2024
Tropical Storm Rafael gained steam late on Monday as it churned northward toward Cuba, which is still struggling to recover from a nationwide blackout and hurricane two weeks ago.
November 04, 2024
Brazilian authorities are preparing to remove illegal gold miners from an Indigenous reservation in the Amazon rainforest that has been criss-crossed with
November 04, 2024
Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Monday that fiscal measures to support the country's fiscal framework could be announced this week, adding that the government is
November 04, 2024
Residents in U.S.
November 04, 2024
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum criticized the country's Supreme Court on Monday for overstepping its authority as it weighs whether to deem part of a recently-enacted
November 04, 2024
Forecasters say Tropical Storm Rafael has formed in the Caribbean and will bring heavy rain to Jamaica and the Cayman Islands before strengthening to a hurricane and likely hitting Cuba
November 04, 2024
Argentina's libertarian president, Javier Milei, a political outsider who won election last year brandishing a chainsaw as a blunt symbol of his plans to cut
November 04, 2024
Bolivia’s transformative and divisive former President Evo Morales has told the Associated Press that he would press on with a hunger strike until the government of his protégé-turned-rival agreed to a political dialogue
November 03, 2024
A hurricane watch for the Cayman Islands and a tropical storm warning for Jamaica have been issued as a weather system in the Caribbean is expected to strengthen
November 03, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who sustained a head injury last month, underwent imaging tests on Sunday in Brasilia, with the medical report saying his condition
November 03, 2024
Brazil Finance Minister Fernando Haddad canceled a trip to Europe this week, the ministry said in a statement on Sunday, amid pressure from market participants for the government
November 03, 2024
The two parties that have dominated Puerto Rican politics for decades are losing their grip as they face the stiffest competition yet from a younger generation fed up with the island’s corruption, chronic power outages and mismanagement of public funds
November 03, 2024
National Guard troops on standby in Washington state, Oregon and Nevada as a precaution for ‘potential’ election unrest
November 02, 2024
Authorities say a local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult “La Santa Muerte” has been gunned down at an altar to the skeletal figure
November 02, 2024
Indigenous environmental defenders in Ecuador are suffering an increasing number of threats and sometimes deadly attacks amid spiraling violence in the
November 01, 2024
The Brazilian foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday it was taken by surprise by an "offensive tone" that Venezuelan authorities used against Brazil
November 01, 2024
Bolivian President Luis Arce accused followers of his former mentor-turned-rival, Evo Morales, of being behind an armed takeover of military posts and holding
November 01, 2024
Venezuela's oil exports rose to a four-year high, approaching 950,000 barrels per day in October, boosted by growing crude output
November 01, 2024
Petrochemical firm Braskem and 19 people were formally accused by Brazil's police following an investigation into sinking ground in the city of Maceio related to salt mining
November 01, 2024
Christians in many countries around the world are celebrating All Saints’ Day, a somber and spiritual day in the church’s liturgical calendar that shares pagan roots with Halloween
November 01, 2024
U.S. border authorities apprehended some 54,000 migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in October, according to preliminary figures obtained by Reuters
November 01, 2024
During the Day of the Dead celebrations that take place in late October and early November, Latin Americans honor their departed loved ones by setting up altars adorned with food, flowers and photographs
November 01, 2024
Pets are not forgotten during Mexico’s famed Day of the Dead celebrations, when even Fido and Tiger get a place at the altars Mexican families set up to honor their deceased loved ones, complete with flowers, candles and photographs
November 01, 2024
A Brazilian judge sentenced two former police officers to decades behind bars on Thursday for the 2018 murders of Rio de Janeiro city council member
October 31, 2024
Arizona voters have approved letting local police arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the state from Mexico
October 31, 2024
The biggest remaining unsanctioned Russian bank hit with U.S. sanctions, nearly three years into war
'Predator hunters' plotted to hunt down 'rich dudes'
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Italy crowned Billie Jean King Cup champions for 5th time
Spain and tennis having to cope with the retirement of the great Nadal
Pope warns the Vatican pension fund needs urgent reform as employees demand transparency
Russia's central banker in charge of digital payments system resigns
Shohei Ohtani likely to win his third MVP award and Aaron Judge his second