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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Opposition leaders are calling for a nationwide push Monday to block streets and paralyze Haiti’s economy as they press for President Jovenel Moïse to give up power, and tens of thousands of their young supporters were expected to heed the call.

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.”

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican crooner José José, the elegant dresser who moved audiences to tears with melancholic love ballads and was known as the “Prince of Song,” has died at the age of 71.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. judge on Friday blocked new Trump administration rules that would enable the government to keep immigrant children in detention facilities with their parents indefinitely.

Latino Rebels Radio: September 27, 2019

In this conversation, Lou Diamond Phillips shares how his upbringing molded his experiences as an actor and how he continues to play an array of roles with an open mind and willingness to learn.

In a securities filing Wednesday, Petrobras said it had tested oil from each spill and has found that the oil does not match that produced in Brazil.

Dr. Ramiro Ramírez, a plaintiff in a lawsuit to halt construction of the border wall, shares the story of the Hidalgo County, Texas-based Jackson Ranch Church and Cemetery and Eli Jackson Cemetery, which are considered historic landmarks.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances filed a long-awaited plan on Friday that it says would reduce the U.S. territory’s debt by more than 60 percent and pull the island out of bankruptcy.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Five years after 43 students were kidnapped by police and turned over to a drug gang, Mexican authorities hunting for them say they have found dozens of clandestine graves and 184 bodies, but none of the missing students.

“The Chatham County Sheriff’s Office is going to distance ourself from people like this. We’re not going to tolerate it and that’s the end of the subject,” Sheriff John T. Wilcher said at a Thursday morning press conference.

The current political crisis in the United States shares similarities with political issues in Latin America.

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!”

While the pilgrimage was a public form of protest and resistance, the Garcías resist each and every day in mundane yet powerful ways.

The deal would prevent asylum seekers traveling through Central America from entering the United States.

By Nourelhoda Eidy, Ronnie Alvarez, and Madeline Simone As three students who spent our summers learning about the health impacts of immigration work raids, we find it is necessary to reflect on the implications of Trump’s interior enforcement tactics. Our research is enabled by accounts of people either directly affected by raids or those who […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A member of an international team supporting the search for 43 missing students in southern Mexico said Wednesday that new information has led Mexican authorities to begin working at another garbage dump.

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.