Canada's health-care system, long a source of national pride for being more equitable than the U.S., has struggled so hard to deliver COVID vaccines that some of its citizens are heading to Florida to get their jab.

It was the aftermath of a failed coup against Hugo Chávez and Rep. Gregory Meeks was lounging at the Kennedy compound on Cape Cod with a young lawmaker from Venezuela with a bushy moustache named Nicolás Maduro.

Mexico is recording some of its highest daily death tolls since the coronavirus pandemic began, with 1,539 deaths reported Wednesday and 1,584 the previous day.

With hospitals in Mexico City and other states overwhelmed by a wave of COVID-19 cases, many families have turned to treating their relatives at home with supplementary oxygen, creating spot shortages of tanks and oxygen for refills.

The pandemic has left the outsized population of Canadian troops deployed to Colorado Springs and their families isolated in a foreign land, with crossing the border meaning spending two weeks in quarantine.

More than a year ago, the United States began sending asylum seekers to Guatemala to apply for refuge there. None has received asylum in Guatemala - and fewer than 40 have even bothered to try, a Senate report said.

The premier of Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta wants President-elect Joe Biden to give the Canadian government a chance to make the case for the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline to be built.

Brazil's health regulator on Sunday approved the urgent use of coronavirus vaccines made by Sinovac and AstraZeneca, enabling Latin America's largest nation to begin an immunization program that's been subject to months of delay and political disputes.

The officials appeared to be struggling to control the damage to the reputation of the justice system after prosecutors took just five days to completely absolve retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos of U.S. allegations, backed by years of investigation, that he aided drug traffickers in return for bribes.

One day after Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office announced it was dropping the drug trafficking case against its former defense secretary, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had “fabricated” the accusations against retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos.

Mexico said Wednesday it will invoke the labor section of the free trade agreement signed with the United States last year to pressure for its workers in the U.S. to have access to the COVID-19 vaccine regardless of their immigration status.

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro tightened his grip on the nation's institutions Tuesday as a legislature packed with his loyalists took their seats in what was widely considered the country's last democratic institution.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó had the recognition of the United States and the support of millions in the streets. But with Nicolás Maduro still occupying the presidential palace and commanding Venezuela's security forces, Guaidó's so-called interim government needed cash.

Cross-border towing companies, which are considered essential businesses, can take a recreational vehicle across the border and meet the RVers (who fly across the border) on the other side.

Nearly half a million Americans flew to Mexico in October. That figure was down by a third compared with last October, but it was a minor drop-off compared to a more than 80% decline in visits from Canada and Europe.

The Maduro regime knew precisely where the first boat would arrive and soldiers were waiting for the would-be liberators. An article published by The Associated Press hours before the launch had warned the world of an impending coup attempt.

The Trump administration issued a parting shot at Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday, announcing a sweeping round of stiff financial sanctions that target a network accused of moving oil on behalf of the president's alleged frontman.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador defended the decision by the Mexican Attorney General's Office not to pursue charges against retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, and he mocked the results of the seven-year investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

The Boeing 737 Max can return to Canadian airspace beginning Wednesday, officials said, concluding nearly two years of government review after the aircraft was involved in two deadly crashes that saw the planes grounded worldwide.

Analysis

Though President-elect Joe Biden's Latin America policy will likely be "profoundly different" than President Donald Trump's strategy in the region, Biden might not be able to turn the page on the Trump era so easily.

In Latin America, a region hard hit by pandemic, poverty and flawed health care systems, many experts fear that large-scale coronavirus immunization campaigns could prove a logistical nightmare, even as vaccinations are set to begin.

Two years into President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's term, Mexico's armed forces have assumed a broader role in the country's affairs than at any point since the end of military-led government in the 1940s.

Under an arrangement set eight decades ago by the then-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party, Mexico's military was left to its own devices so long as it didn't interfere in governance. Under Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, that wall has begun to crumble.

Hurricane Iota battered Nicaragua with screeching winds and pounding surf Tuesday, chasing tens of thousands of people from their homes along the same stretch of the Caribbean coast that was devastated by an equally powerful hurricane just two weeks ago.

Who are we to judge? The Vatican says it is investigating how Pope Francis' official Instagram account came to "like" an Instagram post of a curvaceous Brazilian model given to wearing thong bikinis and striking suggestive poses.

Western Union announced on Friday it will end its operations in Cuba as of Nov. 27, following the Cuban government's refusal to transfer remittance operations to a company not controlled by the military, as required by the Trump Administration.

Advocates have long argued that legalization would put a dent in the black market, allow for safe, regulated consumption, create jobs and cut down on crime.

When more than 4,000 vehicles showed up here for a "Trump train" parade over the Fourth of July weekend, even the organizers were shocked.

A U.S. federal judge has ruled that a human-trafficking lawsuit against the Pan American Health Organization filed by Cuban doctors who worked in Brazil can continue.

Alaska State Troopers and the U.S. Coast Guard searched Nunivak Island and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta coast for four days before calling off their search Oct. 27.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro gave few details of the alleged attack Tuesday that he said toppled a large tower at the Amuay Refinery on Venezuela's northern Caribbean coast. He said it was carried out with a "large and powerful" weapon.

Tropical storm watches and warnings are in effect for much of southern Florida as Tropical Storm Eta strengthens and picks up speed faster than forecasters expected.

They had been stranded on shore of the atoll, which is about 30 miles from Cuba's northern coast, for 10 days, Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Nick Zieser.

Hundreds — possibly even thousands — of Tijuana residents who are also U.S. citizens have already voted or plan to cross into the United States to cast their ballots in the presidential election.

The ex-U.S. special operations sergeant whose security firm took part in a botched Venezuelan coup last May said two Trump administration officials met with and expressed support to planners of Operation Gideon, a Bay of Pigs-type operation that tried to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro.

Ships carrying cargoes around the world are waiting for days to pass through the Panama Canal, as pandemic-hit staffing caused congestion at the key pinch point.

Former Venezuelan treasurer Claudia Patricia Diaz Guillen, a former naval officer, and her husband, Adrian Velasquez Figueroa, a former presidential security guard, were charged Friday with accepting tens of millions of dollars from the billionaire, Raul Gorrin, in a foreign corruption and money laundering case.

Up to 4,000 troops will remain at the U.S. border with Mexico until at least Sept. 30, 2021, continuing the more than 2-year-old mission that has cost the Pentagon nearly $745 million.

A small team of soldiers from the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade will deploy next week to Colombia to aid that country in its longstanding fight against drugs, defense officials announced Thursday.

In a lengthy speech Monday night, President Nicolás Maduro decried an ongoing "terrorist" assault on Venezuela that he said had led him to dispatch 25,000 reservists to the coasts.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau indicated he plans to keep Canada’s borders closed as long as coronavirus cases remain elevated in the U.S. Trudeau closed Canada’s international borders to non-essential travel in March when the pandemic hit.