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Police patrol around Bernard Mevs Hospital, where armed gangs have spread violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Dec. 17, 2024. (Clarens Siffroy/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Americas

Military police, soldiers from Guatemala, El Salvador arrive in Haiti to help fight gangs

The first fighting contingents of soldiers and military policemen from Latin America arrived in Port-au-Prince on Friday to join the armed international security mission in the country’s fight against terrorizing gangs.

January 4, 2025

Venezuela's opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia and his wife Mercedes Lopez hold hands from the government house balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025. Gonzalez, who claims he won the 2024 presidential election and is recognized by some countries as the legitimate president-elect, traveled from exile in Madrid to Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Americas

Venezuela opposition leader recognized by US as election victor embarks on international tour

Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who the United States recognized as the winner of last year’s presidential election, kicked off an international tour on Saturday that will take him to Washington just days before President Nicolás Maduro is set to be sworn in for a third term in defiance of international pressure.

January 4, 2025

Nicolas Maduro smiles in front of a red wall or poster.

Americas

Can Cuba and Venezuela help rescue Haiti? Head of US-backed transition is asking

In a video addressed to the left-leaning group known as ALBA — which counts Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua as members — the head of Haiti’s U.S.-backed Transitional Presidential Council asked for “security and food” assistance on behalf of Haiti.

December 21, 2024

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado in Guanare, Venezuela, in July 2024.

Americas

Scores of children detained in Maduro’s post-election roundup in Venezuela

At least 120 minors have been imprisoned by the security forces of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro since he claimed victory last month in the country’s disputed election. The number of children arrested has outpaced the figures recorded during even the region’s most notorious campaigns of repression.

August 27, 2024

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille, right, speaks as Haitian Foreign Minister Dominique Dupuy, center, looks on during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 2024. (Drew Angerer/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Americas

Haiti fires most staff in its Suriname consulate over possible human-trafficking ring

The revelations about Suriname comes as Paris and Washington seek to halt the illegal movement of migrants through third countries to reach their borders.

August 14, 2024

Migrants of different nationalities pray in front of anti-riot agents of the Texas National Guard who prevent passage toward their border line, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, state of Chihuahua, Mexico, on April 16, 2024. (Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

U.S.

Harris campaign starts to talk tough on border security

A new TV ad from the Harris campaign highlights the presumptive Democratic nominee’s background as a prosecutor.

August 14, 2024

Migrants are gathered inside the fence of a makeshift detention center in El Paso on March 27, 2019. MUST CREDIT: Sergio Flores for The Washington Post

U.S.

Trump and allies plotting militarized mass deportations, detention camps

As president, Donald Trump sought to use military planes and bases for deportation. Now, he and his allies are talking about a new effort that current and former officials warn could be impractical and dangerous.

February 21, 2024

A migrant drinks canned water near CTA buses at the city's migrant "landing zone" on Jan. 10, 2024, while Angelo Traviezo, second from right, of Venezuela, talks with other migrants. At least eight CTA buses are being used at the site as temporary shelters for recently arrived migrants. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

U.S.

Migrants go without showers, dig for food in trash at Chicago’s ‘landing zone’ as they wait for shelter

With 27 designated shelter buildings at capacity and more migrants arriving every day, numbers have overflowed to buses in Chicago’s “landing zone,” a parking lot run by Office of Emergency Management officials.

January 11, 2024

Asylum seekers wait to be processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico into the United States on Sept. 30, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images/TNS)

U.S.

Biden’s border asylum app has migrants waiting months in danger

CBP One, the asylum solution rolled out by the U.S. government earlier this year, is part of the pledge for a more modern, streamlined asylum system. But advocates say the app has crucial flaws.

December 4, 2023

Left to right, Mexican Foreign Secretary Alicia Barcena, Barbadian President Sandra Mason, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves Robles, Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou, U.S. President Joe Biden, Dominican President Luis Abinader, Chilean President Gabriel Boric, Colombian President Gustavo Francisco Petro, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Panamanian Foreign Minister Janaina Tewaney pose for a photograph with invited leaders during the inaugural Americas Partnership For Economic Prosperity Leaders' Summit on the South Lawn of the White House on Nov. 3, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

Americas

Chilean President Boric asks Biden to lift sanctions on Cuba during White House meeting

Chile’s President Gabriel Boric asked President Joe Biden to remove Cuba from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism and praised the administration for recently lifting some oil sanctions on Venezuela during a meeting at the White House on Thursday.

November 4, 2023

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