Latin America & Caribbean
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 ...Colombia, ELN rebels set to halt offensive actions
Colombia’s armed forces and the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels are set this week to halt offensive actions against each other, prior ...Heat wave in Mexico leaves at least 100 dead
At least 100 people have died over the past two weeks in Mexico due to heat-related causes as temperatures climbed close to ...Honduras military takes over prisons after dozens die in riot
Honduras’ military began taking control of the country’s violent prisons on Monday, following a gang dispute that left 46 inmates dead at a women’s ...












