Latin America & Caribbean
Uruguay’s José Mujica, world’s ‘poorest president’, dies
By MATILDE CAMPODÓNICO and ISABEL DEBRE AP Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of ...Colombia suspends ceasefire with FARC guerrilla faction
The Colombian government will suspend a ceasefire with a faction of what was once the armed Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) ...Support dwindles for leftist’s call for Ecuador election recount
By Alexandra Valencia Reuters Support for Ecuadorean leftist Luisa Gonzalez’s call for a recount in the country’s presidential election was dwindling on ...Death toll nears 200 in Dominican Republic nightclub tragedy
By Paul Mathiasen Reuters A devastating roof collapse at a popular nightclub in the capital of the Dominican Republic has claimed at ...Haiti humanitarian crisis worsening as violence escalates, says aid group
The humanitarian situation in Haiti is dramatically worsening, aid group Save the Children said, with underfunded security forces increasingly overwhelmed by powerful ...Thousands of Haitians take to streets to protest surging gang violence
By Yves Pierre Surin Reuters Thousands of Haitians took to the streets in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday to express their anger against armed ...Martinique’s water woes drive anger at French rule
By Layli Foroudi Reuters In Martinique, a French territory in the Caribbean, tourists flock to crystalline waterfalls nestling in the tropical rainforests. ...Peru declares emergency as crime wave grips capital, singer shot dead
Peru’s government declared on Monday a state of emergency in the capital Lima while it also deployed soldiers to the streets to ...Haitian economist takes over as transition president in friendly ceremony
By Sarah Morland Reuters Haitian economist and former central bank chief Fritz Alphonse Jean took over the rotating presidency of Haiti’s transitional ...Chile power outage plunges capital into darkness, hits major copper mines
By Fabian Cambero and Alexander Villegas Reuters A massive power outage across Chile plunged the country’s capital Santiago into darkness on Tuesday ...
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