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

Brazil’s da Silva faces new charge of money laundering

AP News Updated Sep 14, 2020 06:46 pm

Prosecutors in Brazil’s sprawling Car Wash corruption investigation have charged former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with money laundering, less than a year after the country’s top court ordered him freed from jail while he appealed…

Once-standout DEA agent says he conspired with drug cartel

AP News Updated Sep 14, 2020 03:46 pm

A once-standout U.S. narcotics agent has admitted conspiring to launder money with a Colombian drug cartel

Battle on to save Brazil’s tropical wetlands from flames

AP News Updated Sep 13, 2020 01:06 pm

A vast swath of a vital wetlands is burning in Brazil, sweeping across several national parks and obscuring the sun behind dense smoke

El Salvador to require negative COVID test to enter country

AP News Published Sep 12, 2020 01:46 pm

El Salvador plans to reopen airports for international flights starting Sept. 19, but with a twist: incoming passengers will be required to show a negative PCR coronavirus test no more than three days old

Brazil Indigenous group celebrates 6 months without COVID-19

AP News Published Sep 12, 2020 07:06 am

ALTO RIO GUAMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil (AP) — A group of Tembé men armed with bows and shotguns arrived on motorcycles at the wooden gate blocking access to their villages in Brazil’s Amazon. One of them removed the padlock and slipped…

Mexico: Foreigner who used racist insult can’t re-enter

AP News Published Sep 11, 2020 08:27 pm

Mexico has banned a foreign woman from re-entering the country after she was caught on video calling a woman in Mexico City a “horrible Indian.”

Farmers hold out at seized Mexican dam as tensions build

AP News Updated Sep 11, 2020 07:27 pm

Hundreds of farmers continue to hold a remote dam in northern Mexico as time is running out for the country to catch up on payments and avoid breaching a 1944 water treaty with the United States

Venezuelan president says US spy captured near refineries

AP News Published Sep 11, 2020 07:06 pm

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says authorities have captured a U.S. spy near a pair of refineries in Venezuela with specialized weapons and a large sum of dollars

Mexico rights agency faults gov’t in migrant COVID-19 death

AP News Published Sep 11, 2020 06:46 pm

Mexico's National Human Rights Commission says the country's immigration agency was to blame in the death of a Salvadoran migrant who died of COVID-19 after a stay at a detention center in Mexico City

New political turmoil hits Peru with dicey impeachment vote

AP News Published Sep 11, 2020 04:46 pm

Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra is facing the threat of impeachment after the country’s opposition-controlled Congress agreed to vote on his possible ouster just a day after the release of several secretly recorded audios

Colombia: 2 days of protests leave 13 dead, over 400 injured

AP News Updated Sep 11, 2020 01:27 pm

Authorities say two days of protests in Colombia over the death of a man in police custody have left 13 people dead and over 400 injured

HRW: Bolivia case against Morales is politically motivated

AP News Updated Sep 11, 2020 11:26 am

Human Rights Watch says terrorism charges against former Bolivian President Evo Morales appear to be politically motivated and are part of a wider campaign by Bolivia’s interim government to use the justice system against political…

Nicaraguans testify of abuses in crackdown on protests

AP News Updated Sep 11, 2020 10:46 am

Eighteen Nicaraguans who say they suffered torture and sexual abuse at the hands of their country's security forces have testified to a panel of legal and psychological experts, determined not to allow the pandemic to further forestall…

Peru’s Indigenous turn to ancestral remedies to fight virus

AP News Published Sep 10, 2020 09:27 pm

As COVID-19 spread quickly through Peru’s Amazon, the Indigenous Shipibo community decided to turn to the wisdom of their ancestors

7 killed in protests over police custody death in Colombia

AP News Updated Sep 10, 2020 05:46 pm

Violent clashes erupted in Colombia’s capital following the death of a man in police custody, with angry citizens setting fire to city buses, vandalizing police stations and squaring off with officers in confrontations that killed seven…

Mexico starts campaign urging employers to hire refugees

AP News Published Sep 10, 2020 05:46 pm

Mexico's Labor Department and the U.N. refugee agency have launched a campaign to encourage employers to hire refugees amid a spike in asylum and refugee requests

UN condemns killing of LGBT activist in northern Mexico,

AP News Updated Sep 10, 2020 05:06 pm

The U.N. human rights agency is calling on Mexican authorities to thoroughly investigate the killing of an LGBT rights activist in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua

Mexican archaeological ruins reopen with masks, distancing

AP News Published Sep 10, 2020 03:26 pm

Mexico's pre-Hispanic ruin sites have begun re-opening to tourists for the first time since they were closed due to the coronavirus pandemic in March

Wildfires sweep into Brazil park harboring jaguars

AP News Updated Sep 10, 2020 03:06 pm

Wildfire has infiltrated a Brazilian state park known for its population of jaguars, as firefighters, environmentalists and ranchers in the world’s largest tropical wetlands region struggle to smother record blazes

Mourners gather to bid farewell to murdered Mexican reporter

AP News Updated Sep 10, 2020 01:46 pm

Mourners have gathered at the wake of a newspaper reporter whose decapitated body was found a day earlier in an area suffering for months under organized crime violence in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz in Mexico

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