Latin America

For the third time in the last 72 hours, a mercenary has been arrested by the Government of Venezuela. A mercenary turned himself into the Venezuelan authorities on Wednesday, following the arrest of several terrorists working on behalf of foreign entities. The mercenary, Romel Mendez, confessed on camera that he …

President Donald Trump denied any involvement by the US government in what Venezuelan officials have called a failed armed incursion in the South American country that led to the capture of two American “mercenaries.” Trump made the comment to reporters at the White House after socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro …

Venezuelan authorities have detained two U.S. citizens working with a U.S. military veteran who has claimed responsibility for a failed armed incursion into the oil-producing country, President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday. In a state television address, Maduro said authorities arrested 13 “terrorists” on Monday involved in a plot he …

Eduardo Kobra, a Brazilian artist internationally known for his colorful murals but who is now off the streets due to the lockdown over the coronavirus, paints a mural that preaches faith and promotes solidarity in his native city Sao Paulo amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Almost one thousand women were murdered in Mexico in the first three months of the year, new figures show. The news comes as campaigners warn the country is witnessing a rise in domestic abuse in the wake of the coronavirus emergency. Government figures show the number of women killed was …

An observatory in Brazil captured the moment meteorite speed across the night sky before exploding and crashing. According to reports, the meteorite exploded in Brazil’s Hortensias Region in the Rio Grande do Sul state. Professor Carlos Fernando Jung from the Heller & Jung Space Observatory reported the meteorite entered the …

Brazilian Minister of Justice Sergio Moro announced his resignation on Friday in a public address accusing President Jair Bolsonaro of political interference in law enforcement. Moro said Bolsonaro had insisted on firing federal police chief Mauricio Valeixo without agreeing to a replacement of a similar technical profile. Valeixo was an …

Hunger protests are increasing across Colombia as millions of people find themselves unable to obtain food due to the anti-coronavirus lockdown. In the capital, Bogota, scores of people demonstrated outside the office of Mayor Claudia Lopez on Wednesday, demanding that the authorities urgently deliver aid that has been promised to …

Authorities in the Brazilian city of Manaus have begun burying people who died from COVID-19 in mass graves after the number of people falling victim to the virus dramatically increased. In a somber statement, Manaus City Hall said that the number of burials in public cemeteries spiraled significantly over the …

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has come under criticism for joining protesters demanding that restrictions on movement introduced to stop the spread of coronavirus be lifted. Mr Bolsonaro has clashed in recent weeks with state governors who have imposed lockdowns, denouncing the measures as “dictatorial”. As of Sunday, Brazil had more …

The Colombian government has begun providing some of the poorest residents of the capital Bogota with food donations as the city of seven million people goes through more than a month of lockdown to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a government order, dozens of the homeless are also given …

Eleven people were killed and four injured in an accidental explosion at a Colombian coal mine in Cucunuba, near Bogota, on Saturday, according to the local fire department. The victims were miners who were working despite the health emergency caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Most Colombians are quarantined by government …

The US has charged Venezuela’s President, Nicolás Maduro, and other senior officials in the country with drug trafficking crimes. The move, which will increase tensions between the two nations, was announced by Attorney General William Barr. The US also offered a $15m (£12.5m) reward for any information leading to Mr. …

Coordinated riots across Colombia’s prison system over the weekend left 23 inmates dead at one Bogota jail and two in a maximum security facility 100 miles northeast of the capital. Inmates started fires and protested violently against overcrowded and unsanitary conditions that leave them vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic. No …

Hundreds of prisoners broke out of four Brazilian jails on Monday, the day before their day-release privileges were due to be suspended over the coronavirus outbreak, Sao Paulo State prison authorities and local media reported. The Sao Paulo State prison authority said it could not say how many inmates had …

US officials say they have discovered the longest smuggling tunnel ever found on the border with Mexico. Stretching for 4,309ft (1,313m), the tunnel had a lift, rail track, drainage, and air ventilation systems, and high voltage electrical cables. The passageway connected an industrial site in the Mexican city of Tijuana …

An Earthquake measuring 7.7 magnitudes on the Richter scale has struck 72 miles off the coastal town of Lucea in Jamaica and south of Cuba. Subsequently, Tsunami warnings have been issued, which included the Cayman Islands, after the earthquake hit north of the Jamaican coast. The Jamaica Gleaner reports that …

Authorities in Brazil say heavy rains caused flooding and landslides in the southeast part of the country, killing at least 11 people Heavy rains caused flooding and landslides in southeast Brazil, killing at least 11 people, authorities said Saturday. Two people died on Friday in Belo Horizonte, the capital of …

In Mexico, soldiers in riot gear used batons and pepper spray Thursday to beat back a caravan of hundreds of Central American migrants and asylum seekers after they crossed into the southern state of Chiapas from Guatemala. Among the injured was a pregnant woman who was left unconscious by the …

Mexican forces have fired tear gas at hundreds of Central American refugees as they tried to force their way through the Mexico-Guatemala border after the Mexican government rejected their request to transit toward the United States. The refugees waded across a river into Mexico on Monday in a chaotic scramble …