The U.S. government has seized a plane used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that officials say was illegally purchased through a shell company and smuggled out of the United States in violation of sanctions and export control laws.

A Brazilian Supreme Court panel on Monday unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X nationwide. The broader support among justices undermines the effort by Musk and his supporters to cast Justice Alexandre de Moraes as an authoritarian renegade who is intent on censoring political speech in Brazil.

A bronze statue from the Titanic — not seen in decades and feared to be lost for good — is among the discoveries made by the company with salvage rights to the wreck site on its first expedition there in many years.

Last week Mexico’s attorney general announced that 11 former members of the Zeta cartel were convicted for slaying hundreds of migrants over a decade ago. The news quickly became a reminder of how much about the case remains unresolved.

Brazil’s top court ordered the immediate suspension of X in the country after its billionaire owner Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative for the social network in Latin America’s largest nation.

The immigration scheme allows people from the four countries to live and work here for a period of two years if they pass health and background checks. The program will now have enhanced security measures.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced a “pause” in the relationship with the United States and Canadian embassies after the ambassadors from those countries criticized his plan to dramatically overhaul the justice system.

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.

A U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo plane began delivering shipments of 24 additional Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles on Friday, according to a U.S. Southern Command news release.

Critics have charged that the Biden administration has been so eager to win cooperation on migration over the past few years that it has tiptoed around sensitive issues like the weakening of Mexico’s democratic institutions.

For years, Menendez had been the highest-ranking Democrat to favor hardline sanctions measures toward Havana.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert on Friday warning of the increased risk of the Oropouche virus to travelers in the Americas, particularly those visiting the Amazon basin and areas in South America and the Caribbean where the disease has newly been spotted.

Argentina is in the early stages of an economic and monetary experiment that will determine whether it can escape decades of decline and recapture some of its earlier swagger as a commodities superpower. Everywhere you look there are signs of decay, and the accompanying strains on its people.

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

The World Health Organization has declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries and a new form of the virus spreading.

A U.N. panel of electoral experts said in a new report that Venezuela’s national electoral authority fell short of following through on basic “transparency and integrity measures that are essential to holding credible elections.”

The Biden administration is treading a thin line as it attempts to usher Venezuela’s dictator out of office without falling into the costly traps that vexed previous U.S. governments and angered Latin American allies.

A betrayal in the highest ranks of the Sinaloa cartel was behind the mysterious flight that carried two of its leaders to the United States last month.

Venezuela’s Maduro instructed the National Telecommunications Commission to block the usage of X, previously known as Twitter, for an initial period of 10 days.