Latin America

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Tropical Storm Eta spun through northern Nicaragua Wednesday after lashing the country’s Caribbean coast for much of the past day, its floodwaters isolating already remote communities and setting off deadly landslides that killed at least three people.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Hurricane Eta erupted quickly into a potentially catastrophic major hurricane Monday as it headed for Central America, where forecasters warned of massive flooding and landslides across a vulnerable region.

Mexican prosecutors say that fugitive former Mexico City public housing official, Raymundo Collins has been located in the United States.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The diminutive figure of a skeleton in a face mask and medical cap has a hand on a bedridden patient. At its side is the sort of skull made of sugar common on Day of the Dead altars. And behind is the photo of a white-haired 64-year-old man in glasses smiling at the camera: the late Dr. José Luis Linares.

The final episode of this docuseries explores Cuba’s healthcare program and medical brigades.

According to a newly published Gallup survey, Mexican citizens have only slightly improved in their perception of security and the police since last year.

The approval of this law allows the prosecution of acts such as hacking, identity theft or computer espionage, but also of people who “spread false information.”

HAVANA (AP) — More than 400 Western Union offices that Cubans heavily rely on for remittances sent by family abroad are in danger of closing amid a growing number of sanctions the U.S. government has placed on the island.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The fireworks and street celebrations are over in Chile, and now many months of hard work and uncertainty loom for a population impatient for change.

Salary decreases for teachers and education outsourcing and privatization proposals are among the components of the law being protested.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A record surge in coronavirus cases is pushing hospitals to the brink in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, confronting health officials in Texas and Mexico with twin disasters in the closely knit metropolitan area of 3 million people.

Most of the killings took place in one incident on Saturday evening in the municipality of Jerez, where a confrontation led to a car chase which left 14 people dead.

MEDELLÍN, Colombia (AP) — After more than six years in confinement, Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López is a free man and has been reunited with his family in Madrid.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Amid a year of contagion and turmoil, Chileans turned out Sunday to vote overwhelmingly in favor of having a constitutional convention draft a new charter to replace guiding principles imposed four decades ago under the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

The IMSS reported that of the 17,331 of the intubated patients in October, 15,070 have died.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A final official vote count released Friday gave leftist Luis Arce a smashing victory in Bolivia’s presidential election, a vindication for the Movement Toward Socialism party of ousted President Evo Morales, who was barred from running.

Thousands of union members, teachers, students and Indigenous people filled a historic square in the capital city of Bogotá, protesting against the social and economic policies of President Iván Duque, as well as the killing of human rights activists and recent police violence.

October 18 marked one year of mass protests for systemic change in Chile, and one year of brutal repression.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Protesters filled a historic square in Colombia’s capital Wednesday to demonstrate against the government’s handling of a wide range of issues including the economic fallout of the pandemic and implementation of the peace accord.

A decade after the cholera outbreak of 2010, family members and victims took to the streets to march along the Artibonite River.

USHUAIA, Argentina (AP) — At the edge of Argentina in a city known as “The End of the World,” many thought they might be spared from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic.