Latin America News Dispatch

The Caribbean nation was free of cholera until a group of United Nations peacekeepers accidentally dumped infected waste into a river while providing relief after the devastating 2010 earthquake.

Organizers told media that the migrants would be camping immediately outside the crossing in groups of 20.

Led primarily by students, protests broke out last week in response to a government-backed pension reform.

Ricardo Anaya and the PAN have denounced the investigation as a plot by current president Enrique Peña Nieto and his party.

The case resonates with the 43 disappeared students in the southern state of Guerrero in September 2014.

A single mother of two, Francia Márquez Mina led a successful fight to reverse a multinational gold mining concession that would have forced the relocation of her home town of La Toma.

The U.S. Department of State called for calm in Nicaragua and condemned the use of “excessive force” against protesters.

The favorite to win the presidency is Mario Abdo Benítez, the candidate for the ruling conservative Colorado party.

Raúl Castro, 86, will remain the head of the Communist Party, which is still the most powerful position in the country.

The kidnap apparently took place last week, either on Wednesday or Thursday, allegedly before the three journalists that the group had in its power were killed.

Interior Minister Amber Rudd recognized thousands of legal British residents are being denied basic rights like health services and are being threatened with deportation.

President Trump was the first U.S. president to skip the summit since Bill Clinton founded it in 1994.

LGBTQ supporters and human rights groups celebrated the decision, hoping it will inspire other Caribbean nations that still criminalize homosexuality.

The leader of the Catholic Church drew anger in Chile during a visit to the country in January, when he defended Bishop Juan Barros, who allegedly hid sex crimes by a priest.

Leaders from around the region have had a lackluster response to Trump’s absence, and according to AP some leaders of the region even welcome his absence.

The arrest was for allegedly conspiring to traffic cocaine and was ordered after a New York grand jury handed down an indictment on Jesús Santrich and three other co-conspirators.

The former president of Brazil turned himself in to the police in São Paulo on Saturday evening and was flown by helicopter to the southern city of Curitiba to begin a 12-year sentence for corruption charges.

More than 100,000 Puerto Ricans have moved to the states since Hurricane María.

After nearly 11 hours of televised debate, the court voted 6-5 to deny da Silva’s habeas corpus request, meaning he could be jailed as early as next week.

This is the first time in U.S. history that an ex-head of state has been held legally responsible for human rights violations.

The President zeroed in on a migrant caravan composed largely by Hondurans who crossed the southern border of Mexico and are making their way to a conference on migration issues in the central state of Puebla.