Latin America & Caribbean

Adam Long posts 64 to take the lead in Dominican Republic

AP News Updated Sep 26, 2020 04:26 pm

Adam Long felt good with the putter and it showed Saturday in the Dominican Republic

Mexico to pursue soldiers, federal police in abduction probe

AP News Updated Sep 26, 2020 03:46 pm

Mexico has issued 25 arrest warrants for those who carried out and knew about the abduction of 43 students in southern Mexico in 2014, including for the first time members of the military and federal police

Push within El Salvador to advance priest massacre case

AP News Updated Sep 25, 2020 01:06 pm

For years, attempts within El Salvador to investigate and prosecute the masterminds of a massacre of six Jesuit priests during that country’s civil war have been delayed and deflected by legal maneuvers

Mexican intellectuals claim freedom of expression threatened

AP News Published Sep 18, 2020 04:06 pm

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador denies his administration has hurt freedom of expression, as claimed this week in an open letter signed by hundreds of people, including dozens of well-known intellectuals

Mexico City school owner convicted in 2017 collapse

AP News Updated Sep 18, 2020 02:46 pm

The owner of an elementary school that collapsed in Mexico City during the 2017 earthquake has been found guilty of charges equivalent to manslaughter

Mexico official: Woman’s death at water protest was accident

AP News Updated Sep 18, 2020 01:46 pm

The commander of Mexico's National Guard says the death of a woman shot by guard members at a water protest in northern Mexico earlier this month was “a regrettable accident.”

Guatemalan president tests positive for new coronavirus

AP News Updated Sep 18, 2020 11:46 am

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei says he has tested positive for the new coronavirus

Mexico sees fentanyl seizures up 465%, denies making drug

AP News Updated Sep 18, 2020 09:26 am

Mexican authorities say seizures of the synthetic opioid fentanyl so far this year are 465% higher than in 2019, but progress against the other big Mexican export to the U.S. market _ methamphetamines _ is slower

Peru high court rejects request to halt impeachment hearing

AP News Updated Sep 17, 2020 02:06 pm

A high Peruvian court rejected a request by President Martín Vizcarra Thursday to halt impeachment proceedings being pushed by opposition lawmakers who contend he tried to cover up ties with a controversial ally

Mexico sees discrimination in stores’ coronavirus measures

AP News Published Sep 17, 2020 10:46 am

A Mexican government body has warned grocery stores about complaints it has received about discrimination against the elderly and single-parent families due to coronavirus social-distancing measures

Mexico City: 20,535 COVID-19 deaths, 2 times official toll

AP News Published Sep 16, 2020 06:46 pm

An official says Mexico City suffered 20,535 ‘excess deaths’ attributable to COVID-19 between April and August, almost double the number reported in the official death toll of 11,318

César García, AP Colombia reporter, dies after illness at 61

AP News Updated Sep 16, 2020 02:47 pm

César García, a reporter for The Associated Press who ventured across Colombia to tell the story of the nation’s armed conflict, has died

Barbados seeks to drop Queen Elizabeth II as head of state

AP News Updated Sep 16, 2020 02:47 pm

Queen Elizabeth II has eight realms in the Caribbean, but Barbados no longer wants to be part of that kingdom

Mexico’s Independence Day celebrations muted by pandemic

AP News Published Sep 16, 2020 02:27 pm

Mexico's Sept. 16 Independence Day celebrations were muted by the coronavirus pandemic, with a small symbolic gathering replacing the usual massive military parade

Experts cite ‘crimes against humanity’ in Maduro’s Venezuela

AP News Updated Sep 16, 2020 01:27 pm

Independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body have issued a scathing, in-depth report finding the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro responsible for crimes against humanity

Amazon Indigenous group patrols to expel invading loggers

AP News Published Sep 16, 2020 10:26 am

Groups of Tembé Indigenous men are patrolling their territory in Brazil's Amazon forest, inspired by similar “forest guardians” in a neighboring Brazilian state

Mexico’s pirate ambulances profiteering in the pandemic

AP News Published Sep 16, 2020 08:06 am

Many people have been profiteering from the coronavirus pandemic in Mexico, with prices for oxygen cylinders, medicinal alcohol and face masks all skyrocketing

Nicaragua’s Ortega threatens life sentences for opponents

AP News Published Sep 15, 2020 09:26 pm

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said Tuesday he is proposing a legal reform to allow sentences of life in prison and threatened to use it against some government opponents, accusing them of committing “hate crimes.”

Mexico honors a defiant woman on independence anniversary

AP News Updated Sep 15, 2020 08:06 pm

Leona Vicario was a financier and intelligence gatherer for Mexico’s independence struggle — a woman who broke gender barriers and publicly refuted an allegation that she made sacrifices for her country just to win the man she loved

Mexico identifies submerged wreck of Mayan slave ship

AP News Updated Sep 15, 2020 03:46 pm

Archaeologists in Mexico say for the first time they have identified a ship that carried Maya indigenous people into virtual slavery in the 1850s

Mexican president wants referendum on judging predecessors

AP News Updated Sep 15, 2020 12:06 pm

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will ask the Senate to schedule a referendum on whether to investigate and possibly bring charges against his predecessors, including almost all of Mexico's living ex-presidents

Mexico has a quieter independence celebration amid pandemic

AP News Updated Sep 15, 2020 09:26 am

Mexicans will celebrate their Independence Day without big public ceremonies for the first time in 153 years Tuesday night, due to restrictions on public gatherings caused by the coronavirus pandemic

Venezuela: captured US spy charged in alleged terrorist plot

AP News Updated Sep 14, 2020 08:26 pm

Venezuela’s chief prosecutor says a U.S. citizen arrested as a suspected spy has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack to sabotage oil refineries and electrical service

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