Crime
After Maduro’s capture, armed paramilitary groups patrol Caracas, search phones and restrict press
ADN América spoke with a Venezuelan man in Caracas who was held for several hours after armed groups searched his mobile phone.
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Climate
Resort town Puerto Vallarta spared after Hurricane Lidia strikes Mexico's Pacific coast
The Category 4 hurricane was tracked as the third largest storm of its kind to ever make landfall with the Mexican Pacific coast
Immigration
Mexico turns down U.S. request for migrant transit centers, blames other countries for crisis
López Obrador said he believes it makes more sense to have transit centers first set up in other countries where the migrants are coming from, inferring that most of the migrants are coming from neighboring countries to the south of Mexico
Politics
Cuban military dictatorship joins Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar in blaming Israel for Hamas terrorist attack
The Cuban regime, a U.S. designated sponsor of terrorism, released a statement just hours after communist officials posted an effusive, “Long live Free Palestine” on social media. The Cuban communist regime joined Arab nations to attack Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Politics
Colombian army apologizes for killing thousands of civilians depicted as rebels from 2002-2008
The killings occurred amid a lengthy armed conflict between the government and a civil war between FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and ELN (National Liberation Army) guerilla forces that rocked the embattled South American country for several years
Politics
Guatemala presidential transfer in question, says U.S. State Department
Guatemala’s Public Ministry says it is examining the election count with “objectivity and impartiality” while the State Department says on Sunday it is “gravely concerned”
Politics
U.S. joins transnational effort to hunt "masterminds" behind assassination of Ecuadorean candidate
The U.S. is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of the “masterminds” behind the recent assassination of Fernando Villavicencio, an Ecuadorean presidential candidate and anti-corruption crusader who was killed last month
Crime
Cartel killings haunt Mexican business district, location of future Tesla plant
Mexican authorities found the mutilated remains of up to a dozen bodies strewn across the northern city of Monterrey on Tuesday
Climate
Chile raises alert on Villarrica volcano activity
Chilean authorities have raised the alert level for the Villarrica volcano to orange, the second-highest, after scientists detected an increase in its activity
Entertainment
Spanish prosecutors file second set of tax charges against Colombian pop star Shakira
The new, second set of Spanish tax charges are based on allegations centering around Shakira’s time in Barcelona when she lived with football star Gerard Pique in 2018
Immigration
Tens of thousands of Cubans flee to U.S. amid island's economic and political crisis
Although the U.S. has opened limited legal avenues for entry, desperation has pushed thousands of Cubans to try to enter without papers
