Latin America & Caribbean
Peru allows abortion of 11-year-old rape victim after UN pressure
By Carlos Valdez and Anthony Marina Reuters An 11-year-old rape victim was allowed an abortion in Peru over the weekend after being ...Ecuador was calm and peaceful. Now hitmen, kidnappers and robbers walk the streets
BY REGINA GARCIA CANO AP Belen Diaz was walking home from college one evening when a motorcycle carrying two men made a ...Assassination of presidential candidate shocks Ecuador
The assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio shocked the South American country, where rising drug-related violence is a major concern for ...Amazon nations fail to agree on deforestation goal at summit
Eight Amazon nations agreed to a list of unified environmental policies and measures to bolster regional cooperation at a major rainforest summit ...Amazon rainforest nations gather to forge shared policy in Brazil
Leaders of the eight Amazon rainforest countries are gathering on Tuesday for the first time in 14 years, with plans to reach ...Thousands of protesters march in Haiti against gang violence
Tensions escalated in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Monday, as thousands of protesters took to the streets to speak out against ...Haiti hospital cares for kids amid gang violence, hunger and scarce aid
Marie Michelle Joseph’s 9-month-old daughter is weak and has a persistent fever. After being turned away from Haiti’s only general hospital, her ...Death toll from violence in Ecuador prisons hits 31
Ecuador’s attorney general raised the death toll from a wave of violence over the weekend in one the country’s most dangerous jails ...Ecuador declares state of emergency amid violent clashes
Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso on Monday declared a state of emergency and night curfews in three coastal provinces, amid a wave of ...Eleven killed in suspected arson attack on northern Mexican bar
Eleven people were killed in a suspected arson attack on a bar in the northern Mexican border city of San Luis Rio ...