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Haiti Braces for New Protest, Demands That Leader Resign

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Opposition leaders are calling for a nationwide push Monday to block streets and paralyze Haiti’s economy as they press for President Jovenel Moïse to give up power, and tens of thousands of their young supporters were expected to heed the call.

  • Sep 30, 2019
  • 9:29 AM

Venezuela VP Condemns Countries That Shunned Maduro

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Venezuela’s vice president condemned the U.S. and more than 50 other governments that have recognized an opposition leader as her nation’s rightful president, calling it the “worst mistake in the diplomatic history of these countries.”

  • Sep 29, 2019
  • 6:38 PM

Legendary Mexican Crooner José José Dies From Cancer

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican crooner José José, the elegant dresser who moved audiences to tears with melancholic love ballads and was known as the “Prince of Song,” has died at the age of 71.

  • Sep 29, 2019
  • 6:21 PM

Judge Blocks Trump Rules for Detained Migrant Kids

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. judge on Friday blocked new Trump administration rules that would enable the government to keep immigrant children in detention facilities with their parents indefinitely.

  • Sep 28, 2019
  • 10:13 AM

Federal Board Files Plan to Reduce Puerto Rico Debt by 60%

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances filed a long-awaited plan on Friday that it says would reduce the U.S. territory’s debt by more than 60 percent and pull the island out of bankruptcy.

  • Sep 27, 2019
  • 10:31 AM

Mexico Finds Rumors, Bodies, But Not 43 Missing Students

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Five years after 43 students were kidnapped by police and turned over to a drug gang, Mexican authorities hunting for them say they have found dozens of clandestine graves and 184 bodies, but none of the missing students.

  • Sep 27, 2019
  • 8:39 AM

At UN, Venezuela’s Rival Delegations Circle Each Other

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — They came from the same country. They were in town for the same reason, as diplomatic representatives of their government. And they took pains to make sure their paths never, ever crossed.

  • Sep 26, 2019
  • 3:21 PM

Mexico Searching Another Dump in Case of 43 Missing Students

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A member of an international team supporting the search for 43 missing students in southern Mexico said Wednesday that new information has led Mexican authorities to begin working at another garbage dump.

  • Sep 26, 2019
  • 9:57 AM

American Asylum Pact With Honduras Seals ‘Northern Triangle’

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration and Honduras signed an agreement Wednesday that would effectively prevent asylum-seekers traveling through Central America from entering the United States. It follows earlier deals with El Salvador and Guatemala and would pave the way to send asylum-seekers to Honduras, among the world’s most violent countries, as is its neighbors.

  • Sep 25, 2019
  • 4:54 PM

Mexican President Trades Barbs With Business, Civic Groups

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president engaged in a war of words Wednesday with business and civic groups that have lodged legal challenges to one of his pet projects.

  • Sep 25, 2019
  • 2:26 PM

Invasions of Indigenous Land in Brazil Rise Under Bolsonaro

SÃO PAULO (AP) — The number of invasions of indigenous lands in Brazil has jumped in the first nine months of President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration, a Brazilian Catholic Church agency said Tuesday.

  • Sep 25, 2019
  • 11:13 AM

Review: ‘Taína’ Works as Strong Homage to Puerto Rican Lit

It’s been 15 years since writer Ernesto Quiñonez has released a novel.

  • Sep 24, 2019
  • 5:57 PM

Trump Administration to Triple Democracy Aid to Venezuela

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration is more than tripling U.S. support for pro-democracy work in Venezuela and for the first time directly funding opposition leader Juan Guaidó as he attempts to set up a government to rival the socialist administration of Nicolás Maduro.

  • Sep 24, 2019
  • 5:38 PM

Intrepid Scientists Witness Final Days of Venezuelan Glacier

MÉRIDA, Venezuela (AP) — Blackouts shut off the refrigerators where the scientists keep their lab samples. Gas shortages mean they sometimes have to work from home. They even reuse sheets of paper to record field data because fresh supplies are so scarce.

  • Sep 24, 2019
  • 1:10 PM

6.0 Quake Shakes Puerto Rico: No Damage Immediately Reported

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Puerto Rico late Monday, rousing and scaring many from their sleep in the U.S. territory.

  • Sep 24, 2019
  • 7:14 AM

Colombia Ex-Rebels Testify on Kidnappings at Peace Tribunal

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Former combatants for Colombia’s once-largest rebel army asked for forgiveness Monday as they acknowledged kidnappings during the nation’s long civil conflict at a special tribunal created by the peace process.

  • Sep 23, 2019
  • 3:09 PM

Colombia’s Cycling Ascent Undermined by Widespread Doping

MADRID, Colombia (AP) — After a punishing climb in the Andean mountains surrounding Colombia’s capital, Armando Cárdenas leans against his bike to catch his breath.

  • Sep 23, 2019
  • 10:40 AM

Judge Mulls Bid to Curb Power to Split Families at Border

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge said Friday that he was struggling with a request to more narrowly define what behavior justifies separating children from their parents at the border after complaints that the Trump administration has abused discretionary powers to split families under limited circumstances, like criminal history or questions about whether the adult is really the parent.

  • Sep 21, 2019
  • 10:48 AM

US, El Salvador Sign Asylum Deal, Details to Be Worked Out

NEW YORK (AP) — The United States on Friday signed an agreement that paves the way for the U.S. to send many asylum-seekers to one of the world’s most violent countries, El Salvador.

  • Sep 20, 2019
  • 7:53 PM

US, El Salvador to Sign Asylum Deal

NEW YORK (AP) — The United States planned to sign an agreement on Friday to help make one of Central America’s most violent countries, El Salvador, a haven for migrants seeking asylum, according to a senior Trump administration official.

  • Sep 20, 2019
  • 2:32 PM

Young Protesters Around Globe Demand Climate Change Action

BERLIN (AP) — From Canberra to Kabul and Cape Town to Berlin and across the globe, hundreds of thousands of young people took the streets Friday to demand that leaders tackle climate change in the run-up to a U.N. summit.

  • Sep 20, 2019
  • 12:00 PM

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