Latin America News Dispatch

Mexico is still recuperating from Tropical Storm Gamma, which left at least six dead and displaced more than half a million people.

Meanwhile, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador speculated that the caravan may have been “organized” to get Mexico involved in the U.S. presidential elections, saying that he found it “strange” that the migrants mobilized their caravan so close to the November vote.

Odebrecht is a Brazilian construction conglomerate that paid  $788 million in bribes to various politicians and presidential election campaigns in exchange for 100 projects in 12 countries between 2001 to 2016.

Michelle Ramos Vargas is the sixth trans person killed on the island this year.

The case was the first to be filed before the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and centers around the cases of five women.

Latin America remains one of the strictest regions in the world on abortion.

Thousands marched in cities across Mexico on Saturday to mark the sixth anniversary of the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Teachers College in the state of Guerrero.

Out of the total number of 36,476 homicides in 2019, 3,874 were femicides, the highest figure since 1990.

The sanctions are part of the Trump Administration’s “maximum pressure campaign” against Iran.

Global protests against racial injustice came on the heels of the pandemic, and Dominicans are now being publicly confronted with their Blackness.

The Cauca department has been one of the most violent regions in the country, with nine massacres since January.

Misinformation on COVID-19 has made healthcare work particularly difficult in Latin America.

The measure states that the Electoral Service will dictate safety rules regarding social distancing for voting throughout the country.

 Around 19,000 wildfires have been detected in the Amazon rainforest during the month of August, indicating an even more destructive beginning to the season than last year.

Rallying around the hashtag #17ASalimosTodos, protesters marched in Buenos Aires and many cities in the country’s interior.

Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced lost to Pedro Pierluisi in yesterday’s primary election for the governor nomination of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party.

Nearly two weeks of protests against the delay of presidential elections by interim president Jeanine Áñez have escalated in recent days.

MEXICO: Emilio Lozoya, the former head of Mexico’s state oil company, Pemex, accused former President Enrique Peña Nieto of partially funding his 2012 election campaign with bribe money from the construction firm Odebrecht. In response, the Attorney General’s office opened an investigation yesterday. Lozoya was extradited from Spain last month and is also under investigation for corruption. He […]

Congress has called on President Bukele to work with them on a new reopening plan, but Bukele has not yet responded.

Many Puerto Ricans waited hours in line outside in the sun only to be told that voting would resume next Sunday.

While Europe was hit early by the pandemic, Latin America has struggled to contain the spread of the virus despite long-lasting lockdowns in many countries.