Mexico declared three days of mourning for the scores of people killed in Mexico’s strongest earthquake in decades as troops rushed in relief supplies and residents cleared rubble in poor communities that took the worst of it.
The former chairman of Brazilian meatpacking giant JBS, Joesley Batista, on Saturday offered to turn his passport over to legal authorities and has requested a hearing with the country’s Supreme Court.
A powerful 8.1-magnitude earthquake struck southern Mexico late Thursday, killing at least 58 people and damaging buildings and roads, just as the country was bracing for Hurricane Katia approaching its Gulf Coast.
Pope Francis, speaking Friday in a swath of cattle country that was an epicenter of Colombia’s long civil conflict, told war victims to discard any desires for revenge and forgive those who caused them harm.
Mexico’s annual inflation accelerated in line with expectations in August, hitting its highest level in more than 16 years, mainly due to increases for gasoline and some agricultural and food prices.
Pope Francis arrived in Bogota, Colmbia Wednesday to help its people mend relations after a long guerrilla conflict and show support for a peace process that led the FARC rebel group to disarm and morph into a political party.
Brazil’s attorney general accused former presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff and some of their political allies of embezzling around $500 million between 2002 and 2016.
Associates of a imprisoned Brazilian politician paid $2 million to an International Olympic Committee member in exchange for support of Rio de Janeiro’s 2009 bid to host the 2016 Olympics, Brazilian and French authorities alleged.
Brazil Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles expects Congress to pass major economic reforms by year-end despite recent political upheaval, saying he is confident the Latin American country has put its days of populism behind it.
Islands at the eastern end of the Caribbean Sea made preparations Sunday for approaching Hurricane Irma, which could threaten the area Tuesday.
Lilian Tintori said that her passport was seized and she was barred from leaving Venezuela for planned meetings with leaders of France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.
The State Department said Friday that 19 American officials at the U.S. Embassy in Havana have been affected by sonic harassment attacks with the union representing the diplomats saying symptoms include mild traumatic brain injury, hearing loss and other symptoms.
Tropical storm Lidia moved across Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, where it caused flooding and damage to roads and homes in the tourism resort of Los Cabos and left at least three people dead.
Brazil’s economy posted a second consecutive quarter of growth on the back of a rebound in consumer spending, reinforcing hopes for a recovery from the recession.
Tropical storm Lidia on Thursday reached Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, bringing heavy rain and strong winds to the tourism resort of Los Cabos.
Five months of violent antigovernment protests have dissipated and President Nicolás Maduro seemingly faces few short-term dangers to his rule.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leftist front-runner in Mexico’s 2018 election, said the renegotiations should be suspended until after the election and warned he would renegotiate any deal that harms Mexico’s interests if he wins the vote.
Guatemala’s highest court ruled that President Jimmy Morales can't expel the head of a United Nations anticorruption commission from the country.
Mexico has reaped big trade benefits from Nafta, but wages for its millions of workers remain stubbornly low, something labor advocates and U.S. and Canadian officials hope to see redressed in renegotiating the 23-year-old pact.
The U.S. government Monday called on Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales to rethink his attempt to expel a United Nations-backed anticorruption prosecutor who is investigating the president and other top politicians for possible breaches of campaign finance laws.