Latin America

Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 07:28 UTC
Pompeo reaffirms full support for Guaidó and calls on other countries to help remove Maduro

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says his country will take additional measures in support of Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaidó. Pompeo called on other countries to co-operate in efforts to remove President Nicolás Maduro from office
Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 07:14 UTC
Mexican National Guard fires tear gas to prevent migrant caravan crossing from Guatemala

Hundreds of Central Americans from a new migrant caravan tried to force their way into Mexico on Monday by crossing the river that divides the country from Guatemala, prompting the National Guard to fire tear gas.
Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:25 UTC
Panama begins exhuming a mass grave from the 1989 invasion by the US

Authorities in Panama on Monday began exhuming a mass grave containing the remains of unknown civilians killed during the 1989 US invasion of the Central American country. The move follows a decades-long effort by families of missing people to identify remains buried in a common grave in the capital's Jardin de Paz cemetery.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:38 UTC
OAS Electoral Observation mission making preliminary visit to the Dominican Republic

A technical team of the Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the municipal elections in the Dominican Republic will make a preliminary visit to the country between January 21 and 25.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:29 UTC
Guatemala cuts diplomatic ties with Venezuela; orders the closure of the embassy in Caracas

Guatemala’s new President Alejandro Giammattei cut diplomatic ties with the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro and ordered the closure of its embassy in Caracas.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:05 UTC
Guaidó will meet with Pompeo at counterterrorism conference in Colombia

Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaidó has travelled to Colombia to participate on Monday alongside Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a regional counterterrorism meeting — a new show of support by the Trump administration for the man it says is the country’s legitimate leader.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 07:52 UTC
Trump's migration policy challenged by Guatemalans gathered at Mexican border

Hundreds of Central Americans gathered on the Guatemala-Mexico border on Sunday, aiming to cross en masse early on Monday in what could prove a stiff test of the Mexican government's pledge to satisfy US demands to curb migrant flows.
Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:47 UTC
Mexico considering a lottery to get rid of the “extravagant” presidential jet: US$ 30 a ticket

Mexico is considering a lottery to get rid of the nation's presidential jet, after a year of failed attempts to sell the aircraft. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said this week that Mexico is flying back the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which has been stored in a California hangar since December 2018, just after he took office, to resume sale efforts.
Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:24 UTC
Sect satanic ritual kills and tortures indigenous members in the Panama jungle

Seven people were killed in a bizarre religious ritual in a jungle community in Panama, in which indigenous residents were rounded up by about 10 lay preachers and tortured, beaten, burned and hacked with machetes to make them “repent their sins”, the authorities said on Thursday.
Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:00 UTC
Mexico offers jobs to a Central America migrants' caravan heading for the US

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador offered 4,000 jobs Friday to migrants in a new caravan currently crossing Central America toward the United States.