Latin America

Under a state of emergency, several rights, including peaceful assembly and freedom of movement, will be temporarily suspended.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Inside a colonial-era mansion that has seen better days, leaders of Peru’s Fuerza Popular movement gathered for an urgent meeting Thursday, scrambling for ways to save their party’s once-dominant place in politics.

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s president declared a state of emergency Thursday to confront rowdy street protests and a nationwide transport strike over his decision to end government fuel subsidies and relax labor protections.

SANTA ROSA, Brazil (AP) — At dusk in this small indigenous village, Antelmo Pereira calls Catholics to prayer, changes into a white robe and leads a religious service that is the closest thing the faithful in this remote part of the Amazon can get to a proper Mass.

It will not happen.

Immigrant and privacy advocates believe the new rule raises privacy concerns that could result in more discrimination against migrants.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Marcel Cineus scanned the crowd for hints of a potential customer as people bustled past his wooden stall filled with hundreds of textbooks in the hills of Port-au-Prince.

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors alleged Wednesday that convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán personally gave $1 million in bribes to the brother of Honduras’ president to pass on to the Central American leader.

That was “interesting.”

For now, Martín Vizcarra remains in charge, with the support of the armed forces.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The operation dubbed “Find Jovenel Moïse” organized by opposition leaders demanding the resignation of Haiti’s president ended abruptly when he appeared at the National Palace early this week following violent protests in which several people were killed.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A struggle between Peru’s president and congress over who will govern threatened to become a lengthy and destabilizing legal battle as each side dug in Tuesday amid the deepest constitutional crisis in nearly three decades, though one rival claimant to the presidency dropped out of the fight late in the day.

MADRE DE DIOS, Peru (AP) — Destruction of the forests can be swift. Regrowth is much, much slower.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cuba’s foreign minister said Tuesday that he believes improvements in relations with the United States are irreversible despite the Trump administration’s hardening of the embargo on the island.

Vizcarra’s move is part of his anti-corruption agenda, which has pitted him against the majority of lawmakers.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru is lurching into a new period of political uncertainty Tuesday after President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the opposition-controlled congress and called new elections that he contends are needed to uproot the nation’s endemic corruption.

HAVANA (AP) — With their shiny, brilliantly striped shells and bodies up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) long, giant African snails have become public enemy No. 1 for epidemiologists, and citizens have grown to fear their ability to transmit diseases and harm crops.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators set fires Monday and chanted calls for Haiti’s president to resign as the opposition to Jovenel Moïse tried to increase pressure for him to leave office.

The policy allowed children to be held indefinitely in immigration detention if they are with their parents.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — First, more than a half ton of cocaine was seized from a plane at a French airport. Then, a shipping container with 4.6 tons of the drug was found in Hamburg, Germany, where authorities estimated its street value at a staggering $1.1 billion.

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.”