Latin America & Caribbean

UN group slams Mexican plan to hold more suspects pending

MEXICO CITY — A U.N. rights group is criticizing a proposal by Mexico’s leftist Morena party to broaden the list of charges that require suspects be jailed while on trial. The bill passed last week by Mexico’s Senate adds four … more →

AP News | 12/12/2018 6:34 pm

Ex-Venezuela oil minister reportedly dies in state custody

CARACAS, Venezuela — A former top official at Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA says the jailed ex-head of the monopoly has died in state custody. Nelson Martinez was arrested last year along with several other oil executives in an anti-corruption … more →

AP News | 12/12/2018 4:21 pm

Woman sues Royal Caribbean over husband’s zip line death

MIAMI — A woman claims Royal Caribbean Cruises is responsible for a zip line accident that killed her husband on the Honduran island of Roatan. Court records show that attorneys for 27-year-old Shir Frenkel sued the company in Miami federal … more →

AP News | 12/12/2018 3:13 pm

• Nicaraguan lawmakers go after allegedly anti-government NGOs
• Venezuela’s Maduro US leads assassination plot against him
• More than 200 sex abuse allegations against Brazil healer
• 6 charged in ’11 killing of US bank executive in Puerto Rico
• Mexico passes law restructuring Attorney General’s Office
• Feds charge DEA agent with trafficking drugs, guns with gang
• Mexico cancels February bidding round on oil concessions
• Authorities say gunman kills four, then himself, at cathedral in southern Brazil
• Venezuela vows to reactivate Goodyear plant
• Honduran lawmaker pleads guilty to drug charges in US
• Fireworks accident kills 5, wounds 9 in Mexico
• Family German journalist jailed in Venezuela as spy
• New Brazil government to pull out of UN migration accord
• Ford Argentina ex-executives sentenced in torture cases
• Canada’s Aurora Cannabis buys Mexico’s Farmacias Magistrales
• Voters send decisive message against corruption in Peru
• Irish pedophile priest O’Reilly must leave Chile in 72 hours
• Goodyear halts tire production in Venezuela as economy slips
• Mexico starts oil industry ’rescue’ with refinery overhaul
• Gunmen in Mexico kill Guatemalan migrant, wound 3 others
• Women accuse Brazilian spiritual healer of sexual abuse
• Peruvians vote in referendum on fighting corruption
• Death toll rises to 14 after bank robbery attempts in Brazil
• President says fuel theft costs Mexico up to $3.5B yearly
• Report Mexican cartel denies US consulate attack
• Brazil court suspends Boeing-Embraer deal until next year
• Federal prosecutors won’t pursue another trial for Border Patrol agent in Arizona who fatally shot Mexican teenager
• Ecuador president says Assange has sufficient guarantees to leave embassy
• Officials Money mules swallowed cash pills for drug gangs
• Brazil president Not worried about looming corruption cases
• Explosion at Dominican plastics company kills 4, injures 66
• Florida couple accused of stealing boat for Cuban honeymoon
• Argentine groups protest acquittal in girl’s death
• INTERPOL rejects Ecuador request to call for Correa’s arrest
• Electoral court accepts Bolivian president’s re-election bid
• Brazil prosecutors probe international trading companies
• Mexico’s new president sees 3-year hiatus on oil auctions
• Father IDs body of Florida woman slain in Costa Rica
• The Latest Attorney says his client will be vindicated
• Costa Rican officials say they think body found near apartment is that of missing Florida woman, suspect detained
• The Latest Costa Rica Body is likely missing Florida woman
• Supplies low for shelters helping migrants as holidays near
• Body found near Costa Rican villa where Florida woman stayed
• Honduras mother waits 8 years for lost migrant son to return
• Journalist killed in Mexico as new president inaugurated
• Turkish president praises Venezuela’s leader in 1st visit
• AP Interview Argentine leader sees tough road ahead
• Uruguay rejects asylum request by former Peru President Garcia, who sought refuge in consulate amid corruption probe
• Mexico’s new ’common man’ president hits the ground running
• AP PHOTOS Indigenous Panamanians compete in ancestral games