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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 ...
Antibody cocktail halts Zika in monkeys as researchers look next toward human trials
A cocktail of three antibodies has shown promise in preventing Zika virus infection in monkeys, and moves next into trials in humans, researchers said Wednesday. The mosquito-borne Zika virus swept across Latin America, the Caribbean and Southern United States in 2015 and 2016, sparking a ...
Venezuela's future will remain bleak and its people will continue to suffer as long as President Nicolas Maduro remains in power.
Mexico's most dangerous profession
The country's crime reporters face a grim choice: dishonesty or death.
It now appears that no leading figure in Brazil's political establishment is untainted by the scandal that lead to the ouster of the country's last president.
Japan ties up with regional development bank to aid Jamaica and Bolivia
The government and the Inter-American Development Bank said they will jointly support energy-related projects in Jamaica and Bolivia under a co-financing program. Using a $3 billion co-financing program agreed on in April, Japan and the regional development bank will help Jamaica improve energy efficiency at ...
Legacy of diplomacy, aid as tools: Obama's mostly quiet export of LGBT rights
While the world was watching America's gay rights transformation, the Obama administration was pursuing a quieter mission to try to export the same freedoms overseas to places like sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The U.S. has deployed its diplomats and spent tens of ...
