An exodus of migrants fleeing drug cartel violence and corruption in Mexico has mired hundreds of immigrants in ramshackle tent camps across the border from El Paso and brought new chaos to a system of wait lists for asylum seekers to get into the U.S.

Attorney General William Barr will meet with Mexico's president and law enforcement officials about one week after President Donald Trump suggested that the United States would seek to classify Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations.

Federal prosecutors indicted Jacques Yves Sebastien Duroseau, a native of Haiti, in North Carolina last week on gun-smuggling charges. Duroseau told investigators he “picked every gun” to bring into the country so he could teach Haitian soldiers how to shoot.

Smuggling gangs in Mexico have repeatedly sawed through new sections of President Donald Trump's border wall in recent months by using commercially available power tools, opening gaps large enough for people and drug loads to pass through, according to U.S. agents and officials with knowledge of the damage.

Chanting "we are not afraid," thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets Saturday in the largest anti-government demonstration in months, marking a bid by the opposition to reinvigorate the movement against President Nicolás Maduro after a string of popular uprisings across South America.

Michael Enright's strange, sinuous meanderings have taken him on two harrowing tours of battle in Syria as a volunteer with the formerly U.S.-backed Kurdish militia. They also have thrust him into the byzantine pathways and switchbacks of the U.S. immigration system and, by his account, the wilds of international spy networks.

An immigrant bond fund has helped free 34 people from Immigration and Customs Enforcement Centers this year.

Mexico's top trade negotiator said Wednesday that two or three issues must be resolved to Mexico's satisfaction before finalizing a new trade agreement with United States and Canada.

A court in the South American country of Suriname convicted President Desi Bouterse on Friday in the 1982 killings of 15 political opponents and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.

As rioting broke out across Chile in October, President Sebastian Pinera watched his political agenda go up in smoke.

The tour bus hit a Chevrolet SUV head-on when the SUV went into its lane trying to overtake another car, according to reports.

Julian LeBaron, a family spokesman and longtime anti-violence activist said the family wasn't satisfied with the arrests of the triggermen, but wanted the detention of "the people who were responsible for giving the order" to carry out the attack.

Thanksgiving arrived with a sense of loss, but also a sense of solidarity, in enclaves of U.S. dual-national families in northern Mexico, coming almost four weeks after nine of their relatives were slaughtered by drug cartel gunmen.

Mexico's government expressed alarm Tuesday after President Donald Trump said he was planning to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, a move that officials here fear could complicate security cooperation and trade between the neighbors.

Colombians unhappy with President Iván Duque's response to nearly a week of boisterous protests over everything from job losses to shark hunting took to the streets again Wednesday in a continuing tide of unrest.

Survivors of the abuse at the Antonio Provolo Institute for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children in northwestern Argentina say the priests should be made to "resign directly by the Holy Father," the maximum punishment imposed by the Roman Catholic Church.

Sixteen people were arrested Wednesday in what federal officials described as a "brazen" smuggling attempt that involved cutting a section of the border wall in Southern California.

Analysis

Even when police aren't using live ammunition, protesters are still dying from nonlethal weapons, according to human rights groups.

ANALYSIS

Recent events in Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile reflect a broad shift in the region that’s testing the military, police and governments alike. Sick of austerity, feeling left behind, people are venting by taking to the streets, clashing with police and setting buildings on fire.

U.S. Southern Command leader Adm. Craig S. Faller said “terrorist” groups in Venezuela threaten to destabilize democratic countries such as Colombia.

When the United Nations deployed 6,200 blue-helmet soldiers and 1,200 police officers in 2004 to restore order in an unruly Haiti, ruthless armed gangs freely roamed the streets, corruption ran rampant in the judiciary and the country’s volatile politics

For years, a former Argentine naval officer was living in a $1 million waterfront home in North Miami. At 7 a.m. Friday, U.S. Marshals Service deputies knocked on his door and took him into custody to send him back to Argentina over a massacre he's accused of leading nearly 50 years ago.

ANALYSIS

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s capture hasn’t weakened the Sinaloa cartel, which continues to send millions of dollars of drugs to the United States each month, and which on Thursday artfully out-muscled Mexican federal forces to take control of one of the country’s largest cities.

The Cuban government announced economic measures this week to seek dollars in a bid to stay afloat in the midst of an acute financial crisis triggered by its dependence on Venezuelan oil and new U.S. sanctions.

The fare boost touched off major protests that included rioting that caused millions of dollars in damage to burned buses and vandalized subway stops, office buildings and stores.

President Donald Trump has agreed to release $143 million in foreign aid to Central America, money the president froze earlier this year to put pressure on the governments of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador during a migration surge at the U.S. southern border.

The United States sanctioned Raul Castro and his close family members on Thursday for their involvement in “gross violations of human rights,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Twitter.

A powerful storm has formed in the Atlantic, threatening Florida and parts of the Bahamas. But another one formed on Twitter this week, after a former Canadian prime minister tweeted that she hoped Hurricane Dorian would strike President Donald Trump's resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Thousands of people are beginning to return to salvage what few scraps they can from the devastation of Dorian. Tropical Storm Humberto narrowly missed the island over the weekend and was projected to curve north and then northeast, staying well off of Florida's east coast.

It’s unclear what Juan Guaido’s next moves might be. During the first part of the year, the charismatic 35-year-old was able to draw massive crowds, but his ability to rally the masses is waning. And there are signs that the opposition, which had marched behind him, is growing weary.

Analysis

During Thursday night's Democratic presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden brought up his record on Venezuela. "I know Maduro. I've confronted Maduro." Biden's remark drew a swift response from the Trump campaign.

Under growing pressure from the U.S. government, Mexico's immigration policy has moved from one promising to help migrants to another characterized by militarized enforcement that has support of the country's foreign secretary.

On Tuesday, Elliott Abrams also ruled out that U.S. support for Venezuelan interim President Juan Guaidó’s efforts to join the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) meant a possible U.S. military action.