Latin America News Dispatch

The probe into a “politically-connected drug-trafficking operation in Honduras,” carried out by the U.S. Southern Court District of New York, reached some of the president’s closest advisors.

Along the main avenues, activists from feminist collectives, human rights organizations and workers’ associations tended booths and distributed fliers about reproductive rights.

The Ministry of Communications said Cubans would be able to set up Wi-Fi networks in their residences

The country’s public transportation system will be affected nationwide.

The cause of the riots is unknown, although the conflict was led by rival drug factions.

The Peruvian Geophysical Institute (IPG) said the incident was recorded at 2:41 a.m. on Sunday in the Alto Amazonas province, located in the northeastern Loreto region near the border with Brazil.

Puerto Rico will receive a little over $1 billion in disaster relief from the aid package more than a year after Hurricane María devastated most of the island.

President Jair Bolsonaro has been an outspoken critic of the LGBTQI+ community, saying that Brazil “must not become a gay tourism paradise.”

The special session took place at the OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C., following the murder of Nicaragua-American activist Eddy Monte on May 17.

After spending five days at a CBP detention facility in the neighboring town of McAllen, Texas, Carlos Gregorio Hernández Vásquez passed away after reportedly falling ill with influenza A.

The New York Times’ article breaking the story has prompted widespread backlash from the Colombian right-wing.

Pollution has remained at an estimated 1.5 times more than the acceptable limit.

The decision prompted the resignation of Attorney General Néstor Humberto Martínez, who protested the tribunal’s decision as an affront to the rule of law.

Zury Ríos Sosa had previously said that the ban goes against her rights as a candidate and those of her supporters willing to elect her.

The increase in Cuban asylum applicants at the U.S.-Mexico border is straining the already backlogged U.S. immigration system.

Although the United States has stated that “all options are on the table” to end Maduro’s presidency, the majority of Latin American countries and the European Union oppose military intervention in Venezuela.

The RadioLAND podcast for May 10, 2019.

This is the first arrest of a major opposition figure since last week’s attempts to inspire a military uprising against the Maduro administration.

Antonio Bascaro served 39 years in the Miami Federal Correctional Institution for participating in a smuggling operation in 1977.

The move came a week after opposition leader Juan Guaidó attempted a failed coup to oust Nicolás Maduro from power.

Cortizo positioned himself as the leader of the opposition against Varela, promising a “zero-tolerance” policy on graft cases.