Fifty thousand Mexican farmworkers have gone on strike in Baja California, and they're aggressively protesting low wages, poor working conditions and rights abuses. Protest leaders are set to meet with growers; meanwhile, millions in crops has rotted as the two groups fight to find middle ground.
Following the German airliner's crash in France by a suicidal pilot last week, Mexican officials announced Monday that all airlines will now be required to have two authorized crew members in the cockpit at all times.
Transportation unions in Argentina have caused the country to shut down. Transportation unions in Argentina have caused the country to shut down. A one-day national strike aimed at protesting income tax rates and a high rate of inflation that demonstrators say is eating up their earnings has led to a national standstill.
Buhari's election ends the power of the People's Democratic Party Nigeria has a new president Tuesday after Muhammadu Buhari defeated Goodluck Jonathan.
As farm workers are currently on strike in Mexico, America urges Mexican Secretary of Labor to continue negotiations with farm workers in Baja California.
Opening Holy Week services with Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis brought his attention recent tragic events by stressing his congregation strive toward humility and take time to remember the dead in the Germanwings crash.
Pledging to cut greenhouse gas and short-lived climate pollutants 25 percent by 2030, Mexico has become the first developing nation to submit pollutant reduction goals for next fall's climate change talks, which, will be held in Paris.
In the wake of an increase in Mexican immigrants discovered having drowned trying to cross into South Texas, the U.S. Border Patrol has expanded its search-and-rescue teams to better monitor the area.
Speaking at the meeting of the boards of governors of the Inter-American Development Bank held in South Korea, Jose Juan Ruiz, the Chief Economist and Manager of the Research Department of the IDB, said that this year the "Short-term growth in Latin America is going to be poor. We're going to have a growth rate below 2 percent."
Although Russia has yet to hold any official negotiations regarding the leasing of a dozen supersonic bombers to Argentina, a senior government official has announced that the country would in fact be willing to consider such a deal in the future.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who has mometarily stepped aside from accusing the U.S. of trying to undermine his socialist country and readying his military in the event of a U.S.-based attack, is preparing to give President Barack Obama a gift.
Regarding the plight of foreigners claiming torture in their home countries, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has stated that it is neither the responsibility of the petitioner nor of the government to determine if it is indeed safe for them to return to another part of the country rather than where their torture occurred
Authorities in Brazil have announced that they have uncovered a tax fraud scheme at the Finance Ministry's tax appeals board that might have ended up costing taxpayers up $5.96 billion.
Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís fired his ambassador in Venezuela on Wednesday after the top diplomat had voiced support for the government of embattled President Nicolás Maduro in a newspaper interview.
Immigration officials have announced that a former El Salvadoran defense minister who has been tied to human rights abuses in the 1980s has been taken into U.S. immigration custody and is awaiting final deportation orders.
Although it remains the world's seventh largest economy, last year the nation of Brazil very narrowing avoided experiencing an economic contraction ( a decline in gross domestic product) as it had a growth rate of a mere 0.1 percent.
Thousands of protesters marched to the federal elections office in Mexico City on Thursday to mark the six-month anniversary of the disappearance of 43 missing college students in northern Guerrero, a notorious gang- and drug-ridden southwestern state in Mexico.
