Tag: Latin America

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (news agencies) — More than 53,000 people have fled Haiti’s capital in less than three weeks, the vast majority to escape unrelenting gang violence, according to a United ...

LIMA, Peru (news agencies) — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte replaced six ministers after they resigned as her government is rocked by a political crisis fueled by an alleged illicit enrichment ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (news agencies) — Two days after Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman Marielle Franco’s 2018 assassination, her widow sat down with the chief of the state’s civil police, ...

UNITED NATIONS (news agencies) — Haiti now needs between 4,000 and 5,000 international police to help tackle “catastrophic” gang violence which is targeting key individuals and hospitals, schools, banks and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (news agencies) — Brazil’s Supreme Court denied a request by former president Jair Bolsonaro’s lawyers that his passport be returned to him so that he can travel ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (news agencies) — U.N. independent experts are denouncing chronic water cuts in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, adding that they are concerned about tap water ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (news agencies) — If social media is to be believed, French President Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Brazil that ended Thursday left him swooning.Pictures showed him and his ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (news agencies) — Dengue is surging across the Americas early this year from Puerto Rico to Brazil, with 3.5 million cases of the tropical disease reported ...

BUENOS AIRES (news agencies) — Mudslinging between Latin American populist leaders dragged on Thursday, after days of Argentina’s President Javier Milei needling his leftist counterparts in Mexico and Colombia — ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (news agencies) — Members of a transitional presidential council who will be responsible for selecting a new prime minister issued their first official statement on Wednesday, pledging to ...