Americas

PORT-AU-PRINCE—At least one person was killed and dozens injured as thousands of protesters took to the streets in Haiti on Oct. 17 over a corruption scandal and some marchers called for the resignation of President Jovenel Moise. A report by Haiti’s Senate accused former government officials of embezzlement, abuse of authority and forgery involving the […]

It was supposed to be a quiet event at the United Nations to discuss the plight of political prisoners in Cuba. Instead, it turned into an exercise of political protest. Just 15 seconds into Ambassador Kelley Currie’s opening remarks at the U.N. on Oct. 15, protesters from the Cuban delegation who were seated around the […]

“China isn't buying in Brazil. China is buying Brazil,” Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing forerunner in Brazil’s presidential election, said on Oct. 9

A huge migrant group more than doubled in size as it crossed from Honduras into Guatemala on Oct. 15, leading American officials to issue warnings that the migrants shouldn’t attempt to enter the United States illegally. Some 1,300 people set off from northern Honduras on Oct. 13, with some saying they’d be content being refugees […]

President Donald Trump warned Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez that Washington will cut aid to Tegucigalpa unless a Honduran migrant caravan traveling north through Mexico is stopped and turned around. “The United States has strongly informed the President of Honduras that if the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S. is not stopped and […]

The European Union will combine an international diplomatic offensive and fresh engagement with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as part of a two-pronged "pressure trap" to try and stem the growing crisis in Venezuela.

A group of over 1,000 Hondurans are marching north, towards Mexico and the United States, with hopes to migrate. The group is currently approaching the border with Guatemala. They decided to leave Honduras months after Vice President Mike Pence met with the Honduran president. Most of them are fed up with the violence and poverty […]

Mexico has the largest number of street dogs in Latin America.

From the campaign trail to the White House, President Donald Trump has made halting the flow of illegal immigration into the United States a top priority. He’s been pressing for a new border wall, has added border patrol agents, and has stepped up the level of enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. But one of the […]

A man uncovered his wife’s infidelity when he stumbled on a few pictures of her cuddling with another man on Google Street View in Peru, according to local media. The pictures had been taken five years ago. Ironically, He had been been looking for directions around the popular iconic location known as the Bridge of […]

PORT-DE-PAIX—The weekend earthquake which battered Haiti killed 17 people and damaged or destroyed nearly 2,500 houses, sparking fears that many buildings are in a precarious state in the impoverished Caribbean country, authorities said on Oct. 9. The shallow, magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck northern Haiti on Oct. 6, spreading panic, particularly around Port-de-Paix, a coastal town that […]

  PORT-DE-PAIX—The weekend earthquake which battered Haiti killed 17 people, authorities said on Oct. 9 and damaged or destroyed nearly 2,500 houses, sparking fears that many buildings are in a precarious state in the impoverished Caribbean country. The shallow, magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck northern Haiti on Oct. 6, spreading panic, particularly around Port-de-Paix, a coastal […]

CARACAS, Venezuela—Venezuela’s government said on Oct. 8, that a jailed opposition lawmaker killed himself by jumping from the 10th floor of the state intelligence agency headquarters (SEBIN) where he was being held, but his party said he was murdered by the government. Municipal lawmaker Fernando Alban, 56, was jailed last Friday for alleged involvement in […]

CARACAS—Venezuelan consumer prices rose 488,865 percent in the 12 months ending in September, a member of the opposition-run congress reported on Oct. 8, as the OPEC nation’s hyperinflation continues to accelerate amid a broader economic collapse. Daily inflation is now 4 percent, according to opposition legislator Angel Alvarado, with monthly inflation rising to 233 percent […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE—An earthquake that struck Haiti on Oct. 6 killed 15 people, injured another 300 and destroyed 40 houses, Jerry Chandler, head of the Caribbean country’s civil protection agency, said on Oct. 8. Chandler was speaking at a news conference to report on the human cost of the relatively shallow, magnitude 5.9 quake, which hit the […]

The socialist regime in Venezuela has generated the largest mass exodus in Latin American history, and a prominent think tank in Washington, DC, says the time for talk is over. The nonpartisan Center for Security Policy (CSP) issued a statement on October 4 backing U.S. support for “Venezuelans to take their country back by themselves” […]

PORT-DE-PAIX—An earthquake hit northern Haiti late on Oct. 6, killing at least 14 people and sparking a scramble by rescue agencies to help residents of the worst-hit towns in the impoverished Caribbean country. A local official said at least eight people died in Port-de-Paix on the northern coast near the epicenter of the magnitude 5.9 […]

BRASILIA, Brazil—Right-wing Congressman and former Army captain Jair Bolsonaro won nearly half the votes in Brazil’s first-round presidential election on Oct. 7.  He will now face leftist Fernando Haddad, the former mayor of Sao Paulo, in a second round of voting on Oct. 28. He won 46.3 percent of valid ballots, far ahead of Haddad’s 29 […]

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grande, on Oct. 07 said that Colombia was responding to a “monumental crisis” in the region from a growing exodus of Venezuelans. Grande was in Venezuela’s border region of Cucuta to see the situation for himself firsthand, pledging to provide more resources to help Colombia deal with the […]

Tropical Storm Michael formed on Oct. 7, according to a 1 p.m. update from the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC). Some forecast models show that the storm could impact northern Florida and Alabama by Wednesday, Oct. 10. Florida Gov. Rick Scott said on Oct. 7 that he will declare a state of emergency for the […]