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HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said officers inside one of its Louisiana jails pepper-sprayed migrants to end their protest over prolonged detention.

Latino USA spends several days at a free clinic sitting in on doctor’s exams and talking to patients, interpreters, and staff, to try and capture how life as an undocumented person can affect an individual’s health.

A recent report states that the consulting firm helped ICE make inhumane cuts to their resources.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also accused Cuba and Venezuela of “hijacking” regional protests.

ALTER DO CHÃO, Brazil (AP) — A sleepy Amazon town has become the flashpoint for the growing hostility between Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and environmental groups following the arrest of volunteer firefighters he has said set blazes in the rainforest.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Representatives from over a dozen nations that are signatories to a Cold War-era defense treaty for the Americas moved Tuesday to further isolate close allies of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with economic sanctions.

In recent weeks, the town of Mayor Otaño in southeastern Paraguay has been the scene of a dramatic protest over alleged misuse of public funds by local authorities.

A letter already signed by over 2,000 people is demanding that the university reconsider.

A new story published Tuesday by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune referred to a February police report.

Trump tweeted that “Brazil and Argentina have been presiding over a massive devaluation of their currencies.”

VILLA UNIÓN, Mexico (AP) — When dozens of pickup trucks crowded with armed men and mounted machine guns roared into Villa Unión, residents of the small town near the U.S. border began to realize they were the target of a military-style invasion. What followed were hours-long gunbattles between a cartel force estimated to number 70 to 150 men and state police that left 23 people dead. At least 50 homes and buildings were riddled with bullet holes.

SALEM, Oregon (AP) — The men and youths from Guatemala had worked all week on one of the largest Christmas tree farms in the world, loading the fir trees onto trucks for shipment around the United States.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — The government of President Iván Duque extended an olive branch Monday to labor and student groups organizing recent protests in Colombia by offering to start separate talks on their demands.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Protected by police patrols, thousands of Haitian children began to return to school Monday after months of violent unrest forced schools to shut around the country.

Recent polls show approval ratings for Mexico’s president are between 59 percent and 72 percent thus far.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday accused Argentina and Brazil of hurting American farmers through currency manipulation and said he’ll slap tariffs on their steel and aluminum imports to retaliate.

“You told us to cut grass,” one boy said.
“So what,” the man said.

PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. government separated thousands of families despite knowing it lacked the technology to document and track their whereabouts, according to a report released Wednesday by an internal government watchdog.

From Chile to Dominican Republic, women used performance art —theatre, dance, song— to speak out against gender violence, sin pelos en la lengua.

From In The Thick, Maria and Julio are joined by Ai-jen Poo and Alexsis Rodgers to discuss the history of the domestic care movement.

The meeting took place after Dilan Cruz, an 18-year-old high school student, succumbed to his injuries after riot police shot at him. He is the third protester to die.