Latin America

The U.S. Department of State called for calm in Nicaragua and condemned the use of “excessive force” against protesters.

Latino Rebels Radio, April 22, 2018

The favorite to win the presidency is Mario Abdo Benítez, the candidate for the ruling conservative Colorado party.

“Es un proceso interno en Costa Rica, y un proceso en América Latina de la visibilización de los pueblos afrodescendientes, que se consolida con esta victoria electoral”, le dijo a Latino USA.

Raúl Castro, 86, will remain the head of the Communist Party, which is still the most powerful position in the country.

But the project, which employed more than 40,000 laborers, also took immense liberties with human life. Thousands of workers were killed.

The kidnap apparently took place last week, either on Wednesday or Thursday, allegedly before the three journalists that the group had in its power were killed.

Interior Minister Amber Rudd recognized thousands of legal British residents are being denied basic rights like health services and are being threatened with deportation.

President Trump was the first U.S. president to skip the summit since Bill Clinton founded it in 1994.

Half of the refugees on the Refugee Caravan are mothers, fighting to protect their young children.

LGBTQ supporters and human rights groups celebrated the decision, hoping it will inspire other Caribbean nations that still criminalize homosexuality.

The leader of the Catholic Church drew anger in Chile during a visit to the country in January, when he defended Bishop Juan Barros, who allegedly hid sex crimes by a priest.

Los nativos de la isla Cartí Sugdup, en el archipiélago de Guna Yala, se alistan entre temores y esperanza para trasladarse a tierra a firme y convertirse en el primer poblado indígena en América Latina realojado por el cambio climático.

In Panama, the Guna ethnic group, which resides in the Caribbean’s Guna Yala archipelago, will be the first indigenous community in Latin America to be relocated due to climate change.

“Many of the arrests have taken place in immigrant neighborhoods, targeting residents from Central America.”

Leaders from around the region have had a lackluster response to Trump’s absence, and according to AP some leaders of the region even welcome his absence.

Un destino turístico de clase mundial pierde metros de playa por un continuo proceso erosivo que se atribuye al cambio climático y a la falta de intervención gubernamental frente al desarrollo hotelero en la República Dominicana.

Cuando ese ochenta por ciento de los caminantes iniciaron el camino, los empujó la pobreza en este país.

The arrest was for allegedly conspiring to traffic cocaine and was ordered after a New York grand jury handed down an indictment on Jesús Santrich and three other co-conspirators.

Why?

The former president of Brazil turned himself in to the police in São Paulo on Saturday evening and was flown by helicopter to the southern city of Curitiba to begin a 12-year sentence for corruption charges.