Tag: Latin America

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (news agencies) — Judges overseeing a high-profile human rights trial in Argentina convicted 11 former officials of crimes against humanity on Tuesday, in the first case to ...

SAO PAULO (news agencies) — The Brazilian and the French presidents on Tuesday announced a plan to invest 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in the Amazon, including parts of the ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (news agencies) — Venezuela’s main opposition coalition said Tuesday afternoon that the country’s government allowed them to register a provisional candidate for the upcoming presidential election, amid a ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (news agencies) — Gangs have intensified their rampage in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital, setting fire to a school and looting pharmacies across the road from the ...

SAO PAULO (news agencies) — Brazil’s Federal Police on Monday launched an investigation into former President Jair Bolsonaro’s two-night stay last month at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia, amid widespread ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (news agencies) — It’s a tale of two dramatically different political campaigns.On Monday, throngs of supporters of President Nicolás Maduro rallied at a giant stage draped in the ...

Tnews agenciesACHULA, Mexico (news agencies) — About 2,000 migrants began walking Monday in southern Mexico in what has become a traditional demonstration during Holy Week before Easter to draw attention ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (news agencies) — Heavy rains in Brazil this weekend have killed at least 23 people between the southeastern states of Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo. Espirito ...

TIJUANA, Mexico (news agencies) — When Vivianne Petit Frere fled her native Haiti for Brazil in 2019 and later walked through the Panamanian jungle and on to Mexico, where she ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (news agencies) — Brazilian climatologist Núbia Beray Armond for years had been sounding the alarm about Rio de Janeiro’s need for an extreme heat plan including water ...