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El ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — Police and soldiers on Tuesday escorted gasoline tankers from a major Bolivian fuel plant that had been blockaded for five days by supporters of former President Evo Morales, and at least three people were reported killed while the operation was underway.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A member of a humanitarian aid group whose criminal case has garnered international attention testified Tuesday that neutrality guides his work near the U.S.-Mexico border, denying that he has ever helped migrants hide or told them how to avoid authorities.

Organizers are calling it “the beginning of a much-needed policy conversation.”

MIAMI (AP) — Bolivians asked a U.S. appeals court Tuesday to restore a $10 million jury verdict against a former president and defense minister of the South American nation over killings by security forces during 2003 unrest there.

Why does La Junta want to dismiss a CPI lawsuit that calls for greater transparency?

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Wails filled a church in Haiti’s capital on Tuesday during funeral services for five people killed in anti-government protests that began more than two months ago.

Latino USA sits down with journalist Sarah Fuss Kessler who has been following the story of a Latina high school teacher in Merced, California, who reported being sexually harassed.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian police are seeking the arrest of Paraguay’s ex-President Horacio Cartes as part of an investigation into money laundering.

President Sebastián Piñera said, “abuses and crimes were committed, and the rights of all were not respected.”

Puerto Rican Nocturne investigates the nature of power, the limits of ideology, and the search for autonomy and peace in a colonized society.

Chile is one of the world’s most unequal countries, with less equitable income distribution than neighboring Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.

Romero’s “people-powered movement” proved successful.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Residents in several Bolivian cities are reporting food and gasoline shortages because of protests by supporters of President Evo Morales, who resigned and fled to Mexico after a disputed election and nationwide unrest.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Opposition leader Juan Guaidó is struggling to draw protesters into Venezuela’s streets just days after calling for daily demonstrations to drive President Nicolás Maduro from power, trying to reignite a movement he started early this year.

By summoning Dessalines, Haitian protesters implicitly contrast the achievements of that revolution —freedom, universal citizenship and racial equality— with the disappointments of the Moïse government.

The candidates who attended the event were Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer, Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang. (Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren did not attend the event.)

Morales argued that he still has a claim as president since the Legislative Assembly has not yet accepted his resignation.

Across California, commemorations, forums, and panels have recently discussed the 25-year impact of the state’s infamous anti-immigrant Proposition 187 measure. I myself regret not being fully prepared to reflect on the timely anniversary. Instead, I am left to react to the commemorations of others, mostly those led by the mainstream media interviewing Latino politicians and […]

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s increasingly violent political crisis is exposing historical racial, ethnic and geographic divides that many thought had been overcome after 14 years of rule by the Andean nation’s first indigenous president and a new “plurinational” constitution, analysts say.

In addition to introducing an asylum application fee, the government wants to hike the cost of other immigration petitions and applications by as much as 532%.

Latino Rebels Radio: November 17, 2019.