Right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro greets anti-lockdown protesters. Brazil currently has 246,000 confirmed cases, over 16,000 deaths, surpassed Spain and Italy and now becomes the country with the third-largest number of COVID-19 cases in the world.
In Venezuela, residents have to line up for days for a slim chance of getting a few pints of gasoline following years of economic collapse and hyperinflation.
Mexico ranks as one of the most dangerous countries for journalists Jorge Armenta, Mexican journalist and director of digital media outlet Medios Obson was slain on May 16 in Ciudad Obregon and it has been confirmed that it was an armed attack that took his and a police officer's life.
Among the many issues that threaten Nicolás Maduro’s legitimacy as Venezuelan president now includes accounts of Cuban doctors that explain how their medical missions involved methods of coercion in favor of the country’s Socialist Party.
DEA offers $10 million for the capture of the most wanted Mexican Cartel leader in the U.S. and Mexico Nemesio Oseguera-Cervantes or known as "El Mencho" while a member of his cartel is already at the U.S. custody.
People in Brazil are targeting pro-China authorities. Vice President Hamilton Mourão and Minister of Agriculture Tereza Cristina are being dragged especially by Bolsonaro supporters because of their close ties with China.
Latinos, at 18 percent, now have the highest unemployment rate in the United States while the rate for the jobless in the whole country is at 14.7 percent, a number that's been unseen since the Great Depression.
President Donald Trump to restore partial funding to the World Health Organization. (Photo : Reuters Connect) POTUS Donald Trump will restore partial funding to the World Health Organization, according to a recently published article.
Lockdown orders put in place throughout Latin America to restrict the spread of COVID-19 pandemic have suppressed civil freedoms, not to mention, violated human rights.
Brazilian health minister Nelson Teich filed his resignation mere weeks into the job. Before this, he had many disagreements with President Jair Bolsonaro regarding health measures, or lack thereof.
President Lopez Obrador asserts that the armed forces are needed in public security tasks López Obrador has consistently questioned the increasing rate of crime and abuse currently plaguing Mexico despite the security plan introduced by former president Felipe Calderón and reinforced by Enrique Peña Nieto, who resigned from office in 2018.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced earlier this week that Mexico’s economy is set to reopen this June 1 after weeks of mitigation measures.
When the COVID-19 pandemic spread with the Mexican border city of Mexicali, operations initially continued "as normal" at Autolite plant, a US-owned factory.
The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico announced recently it has approved a $185-million, temporary liquidity facility to aid the 78 municipalities of Puerto Rico so they can operate through the COVID-19 crisis.
