Zeta strengthened to a hurricane Monday afternoon as it continued on a track for Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula resorts and then likely will move on for a possible landfall on the central U.S. Gulf Coast at midweek.

The full text of remarks made by President Donald Trump and others at a White House ceremony on Wednesday honoring veterans of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

At the edge of Argentina in a city known as "The End of the World," many thought they might be spared from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Evo Morales’ party has claimed victory in a presidential election that appears to shift Bolivia sharply away from the conservative policies of the U.S.-backed interim government that took power after the leftist leader resigned and fled the country a year ago.

Mexico’s former defense secretary helped a cartel smuggle thousands of kilograms of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States in exchange for bribes, according to court documents unsealed Friday.

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.

The pandemic is upending food supply chains, crippling economies and eroding consumer purchasing power. Some projections show that by the end of the year, COVID-19 will cause more people to die each day from hunger than from virus infections.

Amid a year of contagion and turmoil, Chileans vote Sunday on whether to draft a new constitution for their nation to replace guiding principles imposed four decades ago under a military dictatorship.

One of Venezuela’s most prominent oppositions activist has abandoned the Spanish ambassador’s residence in Caracas and is leaving the country, two people familiar with the situation said Saturday.

Protesters filled a historic square in Colombia's capital Wednesday to demonstrate against the government's handling of a wide range of issues including the economic fallout of the pandemic and implementation of the peace accord.

The magnitude of the earthquake that struck off the Alaska Peninsula and produced a tsunami with small waves was revised up to 7.6, officials said Tuesday.

The U.N. envoy for Colombia called Wednesday for improved protection for former combatants who continue to be killed "in alarming numbers," and he complained of rising violence and massacres by other groups that have cropped up since the 2016 peace accord.

Thousands of personnel from the Navy, Marines, Air Force, Army, and Coast Guard are now under the leadership of Adm. Craig Faller, the commander of U.S. Southern Command, for the operation.

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.

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday his government will ask U.S. authorities to share all information about the suspected links between Mexico’s former defense secretary and drug traffickers.

Analysis

For years, the United States called on a cadre of senior Mexican officials as its partners in the drug war. But some of the men working most closely with Washington allegedly had a side hustle of helping to traffic drugs.

In a strange twist of historical irony, the Supreme Court nominee put forth by President Donald Trump was able to adopt her child from Haiti thanks in part to Trump's 2016 archrival, Hillary Clinton.

The Trump administration secretly deported numerous Venezuelans this year, even as it sought to overthrow their country's government because of horrific abuses of its citizens, a senior Democratic senator said Friday.

A cargo of Iranian gasoline that was seized by the U.S. has arrived in New Jersey, escalating a legal battle over who is its rightful owner. The Maersk Messina is moored at Carteret, N.J., according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.

Satellite imagery, radar data from Cuba, and surface observations in Mexico indicate that the center of Hurricane Delta came ashore around 5:30 a.m. local time as a Category 2 hurricane, sustaining top winds of 110 mph.

The three ex-Venezuelan officials are accused in Miami federal court of exporting cocaine from Colombia and extorting bribes from drug smugglers in exchange for protecting them. The former high-ranking officials have been wanted for more than five years.

After Wilfred, the National Hurricane Center will designate any named storms using the Greek alphabet, like Tropical Storm Alpha, which only happened one previous time, in 2005. There was a total of 29 named storms that year and required the NHC to go six letters deep into the Greek alphabet.

A long-simmering dispute about shared water rights between Mexico and the United States has erupted into open clashes pitting Mexican National Guard troops against farmers, ranchers and others who seized a dam in northern Chihuahua state.

It was the summer of 1970, and as Tomas Sandoval fought in a war he'd been drafted into, activists back home protested a system that sent so many Mexican Americans like him to fight in Vietnam.

While the 15-nation Caribbean Community bloc known as CARICOM remains divided on the issue of Venezuela, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit two of its member states this week as the Trump administration seeks to turn up the pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

It turns out the people of Asbestos, Quebec don't want their town to be named after a turtle, a mythical bird or the entrepreneur who first mined the deadly mineral.

The reported talks would contradict statements by El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, that he would not negotiate with MS-13, which El Salvador's courts have declared a terrorist group.

Some 66 million people, 30% of the population, have been getting 600 reais ($110) a month, making it the most ambitious social program ever undertaken in Brazil, a shocking shift under President Jair Bolsonaro who railed against welfare, dismissed the virus — and now finds himself newly popular.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center reported Wednesday night that Nana was located about 60 miles southeast of Belize City with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.

The Nicaraguan government has consistently reported some of the lowest coronavirus infection numbers in Central America despite never having implemented quarantine measures. Doctors and international health organizations have expressed doubt that the government was publishing the true numbers.

The Trump administration is tapping into more than $300 million in frozen Venezuelan government funds in an effort to give new momentum to its elusive goal of ousting President Nicolás Maduro.

The Trump administration wants to install floating border barriers that could be used to wall off river crossings and reservoirs along the international boundary with Mexico or extend U.S. fencing deeper into the sea, according to a new market solicitation posted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Analysis

Over a third of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's cabinet hails from the military. While the military isn't about to split with the administration, there's growing push-back across the ranks, including officers within the government, to define clearer boundaries.

U.S. authorities have moved to seize the cargo of four oil tankers carrying gasoline and fuel products from Iran to Venezuela, escalating a sanctions battle with two regimes Washington opposes and a contest over Iranian oil shipments that allegedly finance its nuclear program.

House Democrats are demanding a reckoning from the U.S. ambassador to Brazil after news reports there said he was urging country officials to lower ethanol tariffs to help President Donald Trump's chances of reelection.

On Wednesday, Brazil posted a record of 65,339 new cases, bringing the total infected to 2.2 million, with 83,000 dead. Both counts are second only to the United States.

Britain, the United States and Canada accused Russian hackers on Thursday of trying to steal information from researchers seeking a coronavirus vaccine, warning scientists and pharmaceutical companies to be alert for suspicious activity.

On a visit to Miami on Friday, President Donald Trump portrayed himself as tough on drugs and a champion of Venezuelans, at a time when U.S. policy toward the troubled South American nation has not yielded the expected results and polls show him falling behind his Democratic rival in Florida.

President Nicolas Maduro continued his takeover of Venezuela’s main opposition parties Tuesday by ordering the suspension of the board of Popular Will, led by his biggest rival, Juan Guaido.