Mexico's pandemic death toll passed 345,000 Tuesday, though most states have not seen any rebound in coronavirus cases, officials said.

On Feb. 26, 2020, Carolina was on a bus headed for Laredo, Texas. After gunman stopped the vehicle, she and her daughter were kidnapped and taken to a stash house packed with other kidnapped migrants. By the time they were released a few days later, Carolina had missed her day in court.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has conceded to longstanding U.S. demands that the World Food Program be allowed to establish a foothold in the country. His allies also vowed to work with the U.S.-backed opposition to vaccinate Venezuelans against the coronavirus.

Venezuelan security forces operating against Colombian rebels along the nations' shared border have executed peasants, tortured and arbitrarily arrested people, and prosecuted civilians in military courts, international monitoring group Human Rights Watch said Monday.

In March, 3,405 Brazilians ages 30 to 39 died from COVID, almost four times the number in January. Among those in their 40s, there were about 7,170 fatalities, up from 1,840, and for those 20-29, deaths jumped to 880 from 245.

After a bumpy start, Canada's vaccination rollout has picked up pace in recent weeks. Still, the sight of the United States — a neighbor with which the country frequently compares itself — awash in vaccines and racing ahead to inoculate the population is fueling frustration.

The Biden administration has struck an agreement with a trio of Central American nations to temporarily surge security forces to their borders in an effort to reduce the tide of immigration to the U.S. border.

In the United States, more than one-fourth of the population — nearly 90 million people — has been fully vaccinated and supplies are so robust that some states are turning down planned shipments from the federal government.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has suggested that the army might be called into the streets to restore order if lockdown measures against COVID-19 that he opposes lead to chaos.

Federal officials awarded a contract worth up to $105 million to a New York company for a tent-like facility to house migrants in Tucson.

Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Virgin Islands officials are investigating a second accident at a controversial refinery in St. Croix, after it emitted noxious fumes that prompted some schools on the island to close Friday.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made a strong push Thursday for his oft-questioned tree-planting program, trying to get the United States on board to fund a massive expansion of the program into Central America as a way to stem migration.

Mexico announced Saturday that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will hold talks with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on May 7 to discuss migration amid an increase in underage migrants at the U.S. southern border.

With his back to the beach where he had landed in an invasion to liberate his country, 16-year-old Humberto Martinez was just minutes away from execution.

Most of the prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of Tuesday, the U.S. military said a day after resuming an effort to inoculate them that was halted months earlier after criticism from Congress.

Greenland’s main opposition party, which is against an international mining project involving uranium and other metals on the Arctic island, has emerged as the biggest party after winning more than a third of votes in an early parliamentary election.

The Canada-U.S. border remains closed to most travelers, as it has been for more than a year, threatening airlines, hotels and tourism businesses with a second barren summer.

Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez announced in October that the nation was doubling down on fossil fuels. "Today we are relaunching the oil and gas economy," he declared, starting with $5 billion of government subsidies. Two months later, he had a different message for global leaders at the UN's Climate Ambition Summit.

Once, the exit from the stage of the last standing Castro brother — for 62 years the object of so much bitter censure by the thousands exiled from their homeland — might have prompted heartfelt relief and excited hopes of regime change. But when it finally came, it was very much an anti-climax.

Communist Party leaders in Cuba kicked off a four-day event Friday in which Raúl Castro is expected to retire from politics as the regime his brother spearheaded over six decades ago faces a crushing economic crisis and mounting social tensions.

Thousands of Mexicans in the United States, most of them undocumented immigrants deemed "essential workers" by state labor departments, have died of COVID-19. Sending the bodies home is a challenge.

The flights, which have not received much attention since they started in mid-March, mirrors strategies used by President Joe Biden's predecessor, former President Donald Trump, to try to deter people from coming by putting those who do come in difficult situations in Mexico.

While the Customs and Border Protection agency has never claimed to interdict every border crosser, the number of so-called "got-aways" recorded in recent weeks is the highest in recent memory, according to CBP officials familiar with the data.

White House officials have struggled to define Vice President Kamala Harris's directive to stem a surge of migrants at the southern border. They have recently emphasized that her focus is on the Northern Triangle countries of Central America and on the underlying causes of migration - not the more politically sensitive question of what to do with people once they arrive.

Preliminary enforcement data for March confirms what border officials have been saying for weeks: The number of migrants crossing into the United States has skyrocketed to the highest levels in at least 15 years

It was a harrowing Tuesday night with 35 mph winds and 15-foot seas when members of U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod assisted in the rescue of 31 fishermen from a disabled vessel that sank off the coast of Nova Scotia.

The allegations against Canada's most senior military officers — the equivalent of the U.S. chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — are being investigated by a parliamentary committee and the military police.

The crisis deepened this week after the Department of Defense said that Vice Adm. Haydn Edmundson, the military officer in charge of human resources, had been placed on indefinite leave while the military police investigate allegations of sexual misconduct by him several decades ago.

Mexico announced Monday that several top U.S. advisers on border and immigration issues will meet with Mexican officials on Tuesday to discuss migration and development in Central America.

The Biden administration has agreed to supply Mexico with excess doses of the coronavirus vaccine, and Mexico is moving to help the United States contain a migration surge along their shared border, according to senior officials from both countries involved in the conversations.

The U.S. government won't allow you onto a commercial flight until you've fully recovered, so hoteliers across the Caribbean are stepping in with an attractive insurance policy: free rooms.

The coronavirus has ripped through many of ICE's detention facilities, infecting nearly 10,000 detainees and killing nine. At least 370 detainees are currently positive for the virus, according to agency records.

While President Joe Biden has promised to respond humanely to the growing number of children arriving at the U.S. border, both with and without adults, Mexican authorities have continued to act as an arm of U.S. immigration enforcement, as they did under President Donald Trump.

Families of some of the 16 Guatemalan migrants killed near the Mexico-U.S. border in late January began burying their remains Saturday in the town of Comitancillo, where 11 of the victims were from.

Every Sunday, Betty Grebenschikoff and Ana María Wahrenberg have a scheduled phone call. The weekly calls are only a recent ritual. In fact, just four months ago, both women believed the other had died in the Holocaust.

Conviasa, as Venezuela's state-run airline is known, says that its operations jumped 85% in 2020, making it one of the few carriers in the world to post any growth after the pandemic wiped out air travel.

The arrests are considered a significant bust for U.S. law enforcement officials, who have been overwhelmed responding to the uptick in kidnappings. Victims have been forced to pay large sums of money to secure their release.

The Department of Health and Human Services had approximately 7,600 migrant children in its care at the end of February — more than double the number of children in HHS custody the same time last year.

As the Biden administration races to find shelter for a fast-growing migration surge along the Mexico border, they are handling the influx primarily as a capacity challenge. The measures they have taken are aimed accommodating the increase, not to contain it or change the upward trend.

Latin Americans were already angry at how their leaders have mismanaged efforts to fight the pandemic. Now, a series of scandals dubbed "vaccinegate" in which politicians have jumped the shot line has sparked fury that will likely drive voter sentiment as a new electoral cycle starts in the region this year.