Latin America & Caribbean
Cuba gets new leader as last Castro retires
Cuba marked the end of an era Monday with the transfer of power from the Castro clan, in charge for six decades, ...Peru pollster puts socialist Castillo ahead going into June run-off
Peruvian socialist Pedro Castillo is in pole position to win the presidency in a second round ballot set for June, according to ...Banker Lasso wins surprise victory in Ecuador election
Ecuadorean banker Guillermo Lasso unexpectedly won the nation’s presidency on promises to revive an economy battered by coronavirus as his rival’s vows ...At least 50 inmates dead in Ecuador prison riots
Riots at three jails in Ecuador left at least 50 inmates dead and several injured on Tuesday, authorities reported as the nation ...World ushers in New Year in shadow of pandemic
Confetti fluttered on to frontline workers scattered across Times Square after fireworks burst above eerily quiet landmarks from Sydney Harbour Bridge to ...Argentina begins COVID vaccination drive with Russia’s Sputnik V
Argentina began to vaccinate its citizens against the coronavirus on Tuesday using 300,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine delivered last ...World court to intervene in Guyana-Venezuela border dispute
The United Nations’ highest court ruled Friday that it will intervene to settle a decades-old border dispute between South American neighbors Guyana ...Venezuela resumes direct oil shipments to China despite U.S. sanctions
Venezuela has resumed direct shipments of oil to China after U.S. sanctions sent the trade underground for more than a year, according ...Football legend Diego Maradona dies at 60
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who scored the “Hand of God” goal in 1986 and led his ...Hurricane Iota bashes Nicaragua, Honduras after Eta floods
Hurricane Iota battered Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast and flooded some stretches of neighboring Honduras that were still under water from Hurricane Eta two ...














