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Ex-Health Minister Luiz Enrique Mandetta will be replaced by oncologist Nelson Teich.

Here are important takeaways from the virtual town hall. 

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A massive stone considered sacred by an indigenous community in Venezuela returned home Thursday resolving simmering international tension after a German artist shipped it to Berlin over two decades ago as part of a public exhibition symbolizing peace.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Perhaps one of the most heated debates in Mexico during the pandemic —after disagreements about personal protective equipment and testing— is the burning issue of whether beer should be considered an “essential” item during the lockdown.

In recent weeks, Latino workers at meatpacking plants across the country have been infected by the virus.

Dozens of cars on Wednesday formed a caravan in front of the public television station WIPR as protesters denounced alleged corruption in the government’s response to COVID-19.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Colombia said Tuesday that former combatants are now making face masks to respond to the new coronavirus pandemic, but COVID-19 hasn’t stopped violence against social leaders, human rights defenders and ex-fighters despite a nationwide stay-at-home order.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has announced an urgent campaign to recruit medical workers for the coronavirus pandemic, but the effort sometimes lacked coordination.

The IMF also announced country-specific estimates, including a 5.3% plunge in Brazil, the deepest one-year decline in over a century, and a 6.3% fall in Ecuador.

No one is being spared from COVID-19’s wrath.  For the Latino community, the numbers are sobering.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama endorsed Joe Biden on Tuesday, giving the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee a boost from the party’s biggest fundraiser and one of its most popular figures.

The Dominican Republic has the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Caribbean.

PHOENIX (AP) — The $2.2 trillion package that Congress approved to offer financial help during the coronavirus pandemic has one major exclusion: millions of immigrants who do not have legal status in the U.S. but work here and pay taxes.

The deal aims to bring up oil prices after a crash brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Court of Appeals issued a key ruling on Friday that allows anyone from Puerto Rico to apply for Supplemental Security Income at a time when the U.S. territory is mired in a 13-year recession.

She will celebrate her birthday with a live-stream benefit for communities directly impacted by coronavirus on Saturday, May 16. 

The estimates announced this week are eight times higher than the number of confirmed cases of the disease in the country.

In Santa Barbara, forklifts chug through the warehouse of Direct Relief, hustling pallets of much-needed medical supplies into waiting FedEx trucks. Normally those gloves, masks and medicines would go to desperately poor clinics in Haiti or Sudan, but now they’re racing off to Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, California and the Robert Wood Johnson Hospitals in New Jersey.

NEW YORK (AP) — Brooklyn is dark except for the streetlamps when Carla Brown’s alarm goes off at 5:15 a.m.—much too early for an average Monday. But with the coronavirus laying siege to New York, today looms as anything but ordinary.

President Juan Orlando Hernández warned of tougher days to come, saying “this is only the beginning” of the coronavirus crisis in Honduras.

The videos explain the CARES Act from different perspectives, with a focus on health, education, jobs, housing, and immigration.