As Tropical storm Elsa approaches, Cuba has evacuated 180,000 people across the island due to fears that it could cause severe flooding after three people were killed across the Caribbean.
The National Hurricane Center said one of the two potential tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean would become Tropical Storm Elsa within the next day or so.
A St. Vincent volcano known as the La Soufrière blanketed the eastern Caribbean island in ash and smoke, sending thousands of people to evacuate their homes.
The number of COVID-19 cases in Latin America and the Caribbean has exceeded 11 million on Wednesday as some countries continue to struggle with new spikes and containing the disease.
Latin America and the Caribbean, it seems, are two of the most blood-soaked regions on the planet. Statistics indicate that 30 percent of the world's homicides occur in the Latin American and Caribbean region.