Politics

We are not ready for 2020.

Optimism helps, but the Democrats’ partisan fortunes ultimately depend upon the party’s ability to register a large number of the unregistered Latino voters across Texas.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Opposition leaders in Haiti urged the international community to withdraw their support for President Jovenel Moïse as protesters marched to the United Nations’ headquarters on Friday in a push to demand the ouster of the embattled leader.

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.

SAN BENITO, Texas (AP) — On a recent day in a remodeled brick church in the Rio Grande Valley, a caregiver tried to soothe a toddler, offering him a sippy cup. The adult knew next to nothing about the little 3-year-old whose few baby words appeared to be Portuguese. Shelter staff had tried desperately to find his family, calling the Brazilian consulate and searching Facebook.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.”

Latino Rebels Radio: September 27, 2019

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — They came from the same country. They were in town for the same reason, as diplomatic representatives of their government. And they took pains to make sure their paths never, ever crossed.

“Trump says to go back to your country. But this is my country, I’m fourth generation Mexican-American. I don’t know anyone in Mexico!”

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration and Honduras signed an agreement Wednesday that would effectively prevent asylum-seekers traveling through Central America from entering the United States. It follows earlier deals with El Salvador and Guatemala and would pave the way to send asylum-seekers to Honduras, among the world’s most violent countries, as is its neighbors.

When journalists called to ask him what this decision meant for him and thousands of other ex-combatants, Gonzalo Beltrán said he would remain on the side of peace. “We continue in the struggle, we continue to work,” he said he told reporters.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president engaged in a war of words Wednesday with business and civic groups that have lodged legal challenges to one of his pet projects.

SAN JUAN — Puerto Rico “is the place to invest in right now, because inefficiency breeds the biggest opportunities,” said Michael Scott Williams-King, founder of financial firms Kinetic Funds and Kinetic International.

SÃO PAULO (AP) — The number of invasions of indigenous lands in Brazil has jumped in the first nine months of President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration, a Brazilian Catholic Church agency said Tuesday.

“Puerto Rico must no longer be treated as a colony.”