Latin America & Caribbean
After the tears, anger on Rio’s blood-stained streets
By Louis GENOT AFP In a Rio de Janeiro favela, a little boy wore a T-shirt stained with red paint mimicking the ...Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Cuba after hitting Jamaica with historic force
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in eastern Cuba near the city of Chivirico early Wednesday as a Category 3 storm after pummeling Jamaica as one ...Jamaica braces for Hurricane Melissa, island’s strongest storm on record
By Darryl Coote UPI At least three people are dead in Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa, the world’s strongest storm so far this ...Jamaica braces as rapidly intensifying Hurricane Melissa creeps toward island
By Ricardo MAKYN AFP Hurricane Melissa was cutting a deadly path through the Caribbean on Sunday, strengthening into a Category 3 storm ...Bolivia ends socialist rule and shuffles Right as Rodrigo Paz wins presidency
By Sandra FERRER AFP Bolivians on Sunday elected a pro-business center-right senator as their new president, ending two decades of socialist rule ...FARC dissidents hand over munitions to Colombia in peace gesture
By Luis Jaime Acosta Reuters The National Coordinator of the Bolivarian Army (CNEB), one of five dissident groups of Colombia’s former FARC ...Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize
BY KOSTYA MANENKOV and GEIR MOULSON AP Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The ...Israeli military intercepts 39 aid boats heading for Gaza, sparking criticism
Israeli forces have intercepted 39 boats carrying aid and foreign activists, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg, to Gaza, leaving only one vessel ...Peru’s Gen Z rallies against President Boluarte, protesting over pensions and corruption
By Marco Aquino and Alexander Villegas Reuters Peru’s youth are rallying for another round of protests against President Dina Boluarte on Saturday, ...Former Colombian rebels and soldiers work together to exhume remains, give families closure
By Julia Symmes Cobb REUTERS For nearly a year the ex-rebels worked shoulder to shoulder with their former enemies – retired soldiers ...














