The Venezuelan government said it foiled a marine invasion by the "terrorist mercenaries" who tried to enter the country via speedboats from nearby Colombia. As a result, eight people were killed, and two apprehended.
The indigenous Maya towns are currently despising returned migrants, along with a threat to some, of lynching or burning their homes as fear spread as 100 deportees from the United States were found positive for COVID-19.
This day marks the commemoration of the Kate State University shooting. Other events from previous years on this same date have also been highlighted here.
Mexico's Centro Nacional de Control de Energia (Cenace) indefinitely stopped all operations and critical tests for clean-energy projects amid the rising number of coronavirus cases in the nation.
A riot exploded on Friday at a prison in central Venezuela, killing over 40 people and injuring 50 others. Injured individuals, included a National Guard officer, wounded by an explosion, and the warden, hurt by a knife wound.
More than a hundred years ago, the Mexican government built a federal prison on a large Pacific archipelago just off the coast of Mexico. The island, known as Mexico's Alcatraz, is a place many prisoners do not want to leave.
Brazil's health care system is collapsing as the number of COVID-19 cases, and deaths soar. Experts say the country may see worse conditions as doctors are forced to leave hundreds untreated.
An extensive research report claims the Chinese government purposely hid or destroyed all evidence of the COVID-19 outbreak and its contagiousness from the rest of the world.
The US Geological Survey reported that a 5.5-magnitude earthquake earlier today was recorded off the southern Puerto Rico waters shaking the city of Ponce.
As Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro discourages state efforts to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brazilians are staging rallies to support him. Demonstrators are demanding to lift the lockdowns.
Costa Rica has started to ease some COVID-19 measures effective today, in an initiative to progressively reactivate the economy of the country sans provoking a health crisis.
College students have not been immune to the effects of the coronavirus. Spring semesters changed quickly; some while may have been away from campus on spring break. Students are finishing their terms online, often in hastily thrown together settings.
