Latin America

Rightly or wrongly, this is the moment many Cubans in exile have been waiting for since the early 1960s.

More than 100,000 Puerto Ricans have moved to the states since Hurricane María.

After nearly 11 hours of televised debate, the court voted 6-5 to deny da Silva’s habeas corpus request, meaning he could be jailed as early as next week.

This is the first time in U.S. history that an ex-head of state has been held legally responsible for human rights violations.

In an unexpected move, a federal jury found the ex-President of Bolivia, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, and his foreign minister, Carlos Sánchez Berzaín, responsible for the killings of indigenous Bolivian peasants in 2003.

On April 19, the National Assembly will meet to pick Cuba’s next leader. And for the first time in six decades, his last name will not be Castro.

The systemic violence encountered throughout the migrant route in Mexico is exacerbated by anti-immigrant enforcement policies backed by the U.S. government, fueled by the Mérida Initiative.

Carlos Alvarado Quesada won handily in Sunday’s run-off, with more than 60 percent of the vote.

Although this was one of the worst jail tragedies in Venezuela’s history, the country has seen similar cases in recent years.

At least six members of the group were soldiers during a 1991 military coup and once had their assets frozen by the U.S. for helping overthrow Haiti’s first democratically elected president.

The White House said on Tuesday that it hadn’t made the decision to include the question, but that it supported it.

The estimated $25 billion border wall got only $1.6 billion in funding, enough for some 33 miles of fencing or wall.

“Black people of Brazil, our bond is one that is deep and ancestral. When you call on us, we will stand ready.”

Speaking with Istoé magazine last week, Temer said “it would be cowardly not to be a candidate.”

Why is Romero’s sainthood so controversial?

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski maintains he is innocent both of the corruption allegations that prompted the impeachment procedure and of the vote-buying accusations from this week.

Footage leaked by right-wing opposition party Popular Force allegedly showed Kuczynzki’s allies trying to buy the vote of an opposition lawmaker to avoid impeachment.

No fue hasta el 22 de marzo de 1873 que finalmente se le concedió el derecho a la libertad a los negros esclavos.

The legal system has deceptively inflated its accomplishments in the war against the guerrilla groups by arresting, prosecuting and sometimes convicting innocents as guerrilla warriors.

Lonnie Swartz has pleaded not guilty in the murder of José Antonio Elena Rodríguez, who was 16 at the time of his death.

The U.S. said the currency was created to bypass the financial sanctions slapped unto the cash-stripped South American country.