The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert on Friday warning of the increased risk of the Oropouche virus to travelers in the Americas, particularly those visiting the Amazon basin and areas in South America and the Caribbean where the disease has newly been spotted.
Argentina is in the early stages of an economic and monetary experiment that will determine whether it can escape decades of decline and recapture some of its earlier swagger as a commodities superpower. Everywhere you look there are signs of decay, and the accompanying strains on its people.
The revelations about Suriname comes as Paris and Washington seek to halt the illegal movement of migrants through third countries to reach their borders.
The World Health Organization has declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries and a new form of the virus spreading.
A U.N. panel of electoral experts said in a new report that Venezuela’s national electoral authority fell short of following through on basic “transparency and integrity measures that are essential to holding credible elections.”
The Biden administration is treading a thin line as it attempts to usher Venezuela’s dictator out of office without falling into the costly traps that vexed previous U.S. governments and angered Latin American allies.
A betrayal in the highest ranks of the Sinaloa cartel was behind the mysterious flight that carried two of its leaders to the United States last month.
Venezuela’s Maduro instructed the National Telecommunications Commission to block the usage of X, previously known as Twitter, for an initial period of 10 days.
The opposition and rights advocates say security forces are rounding up not only political leaders but also the regular citizens who helped monitor the presidential election.
The Biden administration said Friday that it has paused a humanitarian program so officials can investigate possible fraud in the program known as “parole,’ which admits up to 360,000 people a year from Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba into the United States to work or seek asylum.
As vice president, Kamala Harris had a broad mandate to tackle problems contributing to a surge in migration from Central America to the US: Fight corruption, lure investment, strengthen the rule of law, promote human rights and battle organized crime. Three years later, there’s little to show for the effort.
The gunman wanted for a double fatal shooting at a Brooklyn migrant shelter — part of a violent Venezuelan migrant gang war that involved another murder the same night — has been busted, police said Friday.
In Mexico and the world of organized crime, Sinaloan kingpin Ismael Zambada has achieved an almost mythic status, reigning in the shadows as cartel godfather since the 1980s, outlasting multiple presidents, surviving many assassination attempts and routinely slipping through the fingers of would-be captors.
Banned opposition leader Maria Corina Machado called for protests across Venezuela to defend what her party sees as its rightful electoral victory, as President Joe Biden’s top diplomat said the U.S. backs a transition of power.
Spies, active-duty military, FBI agents, diplomats and at least 15 children are among the 334 Americans who have qualified to get treatment for Havana Syndrome in specialized military health facilities — numbers that conflict with an earlier assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies minimizing the problem.
The morning after Venezuela’s streets erupted against Nicolás Maduro’s self-declared victory, his defense minister appeared on the airwaves to make clear how the armed forces viewed protests over an allegedly stolen vote.
The White House on Wednesday backed proposals to permanently stiffen penalties on synthetic-drug traffickers, monitor machines used to make fentanyl pills and close a loophole that allows criminal groups to easily ship drugs in packages.
Venezuela hardened the crackdown on any resistance to President Nicolás Maduro’s self-declared election win by calling for the arrests of opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González.
Argentine President Javier Milei’s first official visit to Paris to meet Emmanuel Macron Friday will be overshadowed by a racism scandal that began on the soccer field and spilled into the political arena.