A three-year-old Brazilian girl was beaten to death by her stepfather after she had wet the bed. Her mother was also imprisoned for failing to help her.
El Salvador has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, with the country implementing its total abortion ban. It has been illegal in the Latin American country since 1998.
The president of Paraguay has dismissed three of his ministers. This is in response to the violent protests over the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
U.S. officials said the Russians, through intelligence agencies, have launched a campaign to undermine confidence in COVID vaccines, such as Pfizer Inc.'s and other Western vaccines.
The International Criminal Police Organization or Interpol announced on Wednesday that it had confiscated thousands of fake doses of COVID-19 vaccines from smugglers in South Africa and China.
The government of Chile has provided hundreds of thousands of defective birth control pills to women that resulted in at least 140 unplanned pregnancies.
Six men wearing vests with the initials of a notorious drug cartel in Mexico were found dead near the city of Reynosa, officials in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas said on Wednesday.
