Last weekend, El Salvador elected Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez, 37, to the presidency. Bukele has called himself a man of the left, but ended up running for president with conservative party Great Alliance for National Unity (GANA).
When Barack Obama traveled to Cuba in 2016, he vowed to reshape relations not just with the Communist-run island but with all of Latin America. The last US President to visit Cuba had been Calvin Coolidge. That was 80 years ago -- and he had arrived accompanied by gunboats.
The languid whack of a ceiling fan stirs the heat around the Intensive Care Unit. It's the only sound on the ward. Because there is none of the life-saving equipment an ICU should have.
The US military cargo planes departed from Miami to transport supplies to Colombia as part of the Trump Administration's response to the Venezuela regional crisis.
Protesters in Haiti's capital have taken the day to gather food, water and fuel, pressing pause on deadly demonstrations that have been calling for President Jovenel Moise's resignation.
Slums like Petare are where the battle for the political future of Venezuela is being fought. Under duress from hunger, anti-government protests have raged in some of the poorest parts of Caracas -- and been met with swift police action.
A man who opened fire at a Quebec City mosque, killing six people in 2017, has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years.
A group of 24 Canadian missionaries and another of nurses are among visitors stranded in Haiti by ongoing street protests sweeping through the Caribbean country.
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More than 100 tourists stranded in Haiti will be sent home on a rescue flight. For more than a week, protesters in Port-au-Prince have set cars ablaze and clashed with police, calling on Haitian President Jovenel Moise to resign over soaring inflation and allegations of corruption.
Haiti's President extended his sympathies to the victims who lost their lives, property and livelihood in recent violent street protests. Protestors have taken to the streets calling for President Moise to resign, which he has defied.
Two US trucks carrying food and medical supplies arrived at Venezuela's border this afternoon, according to a US official in the Colombian border town of Cucuta. But it is not clear when or whether the aid will reach people inside the country.
A Colombian former veterinary student was sentenced to six years in prison by a United States federal court Thursday for smuggling liquid heroin in puppies.
Fourteen Canadian diplomats are suing their government over a mysterious and lingering illness that they and US diplomats seem to have developed while posted in Cuba's capital.
