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Pope in Panama blasts corruption but avoids wading into Venezuela fray
Pope Francis insisted Thursday that public officials live simply, honestly and transparently as he opened a visit to Panama and a region that has been rife with corruption scandals and is now coping with political upheaval in nearby Venezuela. Francis didn't mention the Venezuela crisis ...
62 million Latin Americans living in extreme poverty, the highest level since 2008, says U.N. agency
The number of people living in extreme poverty in Latin America increased in 2017 to the highest level in almost a decade despite an improvement in government social spending policies, a United Nations agency said on Tuesday. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the ...
Japan and Uruguay have agreed to allow each other's beef imports as a way of expanding bilateral trade, reaching the deal during the first visit by a Japanese leader to the Latin American country. At a news conference with Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez following talks ...
C-section births rise rapidly to more than 20% worldwide, research finds
Rates of caesarean section births almost doubled between 2000 and 2015 — from 12 to 21 percent worldwide — new research has found, with the life-saving surgery unavailable to many women in poor countries while often over-used in richer ones. The research, published in The ...
A group of Latin American countries signed a resolution on Tuesday urging Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro to accept humanitarian aid to "alleviate" the country's migration crisis. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled an economic collapse in Venezuela that has resulted in food and medicine ...
Trump pressed aides on invading Venezuela, was dissuaded but kept at it: U.S. official
As a meeting last August in the Oval Office to discuss sanctions on Venezuela was concluding, President Donald Trump turned to his top aides and asked an unsettling question: With a fast-unraveling Venezuela threatening regional security, why can't the U.S. just simply invade the ...
Rampant bicycle theft puts the brakes on China's Mobike foray in Mexico City
Chinese bike-sharing company Mobike entered the Latin American market in Mexico City this year drawn by its millions of potential clients. Now it has run into a problem increasingly plaguing the country: street crime. Theft has been so widespread that in the past few days, ...
Interpol raids rescue hundreds of trafficking victims in Caribbean and Latin America
Twenty-two people have been arrested and nearly 350 potential victims of forced labor or sexual trafficking have been rescued in raids across the Caribbean and in Latin America, Interpol said Monday. The international police organization said more than 500 police officers in 13 countries were ...
Trump scrubs first Latin America trip as he hunkers down to deal with Syria, Robert Mueller crises
President Donald Trump abruptly canceled his first trip to Latin America Tuesday, hunkering down in the White House as he faces momentous decisions about military strikes in Syria and an FBI investigation that is inching closer to the Oval Office. In a statement that surprised ...
Japan looks to welcome fourth-generation Japanese living abroad
The Justice Ministry is considering giving residency status to fourth-generation Japanese immigrants in Latin America and elsewhere, a move that would allow them to work in Japan long term, officials have said. Fourth-generation immigrants between the ages of 18 and 30 would be granted the ...
Venezuela's future will remain bleak and its people will continue to suffer as long as President Nicolas Maduro remains in power.
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The country's crime reporters face a grim choice: dishonesty or death.
