Politics
Peru will not recognize Nicolás Maduro as Venezuela's "democratically elected president"
Ecuador has formally recognized Edmundo González as the elected president of Venezuela
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Fernandez asks AMLO to support Lula da Silva in Brazil
Fernandez urged the North American leader to help build a new regional order by following the leadership of former Brazilian socialist President Lula da Silva
Politics
Former leftist guerrilla wins Colombian presidential primary
Polls suggest that Gustavo Petro's lead over the other candidates may be wide enough for him to win outright in the first round come May
Politics
Soldier who executed communist revolutionary Che Guevara dead at 80
Bolivian national regretted pulling trigger, said it was the “worst moment of [his] life"
Politics
Mexican Mayor murdered in Jalisco in area dominated New Generation Cartel
Cesar Arturo Valencia, mayor of the Mexican municipality of Aguililla, was murdered on Thursday while riding in his car
Drug trafficking
Report: Mexican cartels launder upwards of $25 billion using bitcoin
The cartels make "online purchases of small amounts of bitcoin, which allows them to disguise the origin of the money and pay their associates in other parts of the world," the INCB notes.
Politics
Leftist Gabriel Boric sworn in as Chile's new president
The leader of a broad leftist coalition, which includes Chile's communist party, Boric has long promised to move forward with the left’s thirst for reform and overhaul Chile's market-friendly economic model
Immigration
Cuban man loses his wife and son while attempting to cross the Rio Grande River
Guillermo Alan Matos lost his wife and 4-year-old son when the family attempted to cross the Rio Grande to the United States
Crime
Former Colombian soldiers accused of killing late Haitian president say they are being abused in prison
The Colombian nationals have been imprisoned for 8 months and have allegedly been “victims of torture and severe beatings” and subsequently developed “mental disorders"
Crime
8 of 10 most violent world cities are in Mexico
Within the top 50 ranking, a total of 18 Mexican cities made the list
Human Rights
Chile celebrates country's first same-sex marriage
"Now our children have the same rights (as other families) and they will be able to have, we hope, a better future, that they will not be discriminated against for having two parents who love each other," Silva added
