As vice president, Kamala Harris had a broad mandate to tackle problems contributing to a surge in migration from Central America to the US: Fight corruption, lure investment, strengthen the rule of law, promote human rights and battle organized crime. Three years later, there’s little to show for the effort.
The gunman wanted for a double fatal shooting at a Brooklyn migrant shelter — part of a violent Venezuelan migrant gang war that involved another murder the same night — has been busted, police said Friday.
In Mexico and the world of organized crime, Sinaloan kingpin Ismael Zambada has achieved an almost mythic status, reigning in the shadows as cartel godfather since the 1980s, outlasting multiple presidents, surviving many assassination attempts and routinely slipping through the fingers of would-be captors.
Banned opposition leader Maria Corina Machado called for protests across Venezuela to defend what her party sees as its rightful electoral victory, as President Joe Biden’s top diplomat said the U.S. backs a transition of power.
Spies, active-duty military, FBI agents, diplomats and at least 15 children are among the 334 Americans who have qualified to get treatment for Havana Syndrome in specialized military health facilities — numbers that conflict with an earlier assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies minimizing the problem.
The morning after Venezuela’s streets erupted against Nicolás Maduro’s self-declared victory, his defense minister appeared on the airwaves to make clear how the armed forces viewed protests over an allegedly stolen vote.
The White House on Wednesday backed proposals to permanently stiffen penalties on synthetic-drug traffickers, monitor machines used to make fentanyl pills and close a loophole that allows criminal groups to easily ship drugs in packages.
Venezuela hardened the crackdown on any resistance to President Nicolás Maduro’s self-declared election win by calling for the arrests of opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González.
Argentine President Javier Milei’s first official visit to Paris to meet Emmanuel Macron Friday will be overshadowed by a racism scandal that began on the soccer field and spilled into the political arena.
For two years, the residents of Ganthier, a rural community in Haiti, supported local police against bandits who raided and pillaged businesses, kidnapped U.S. missionaries and launched repeated attacks in the area. On Thursday, Ganthier found itself on the verge of a full-blown gang take-over.
Cuba is banning its nascent class of entrepreneurs from using US bank accounts in a bid to keep dollars inside the island amid its worst economic crisis since the Soviet Union’s collapse.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is likely to stall the sale of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline until after Canada’s national election in 2025, according to officials familiar with internal discussions.
Brazil’s annual inflation accelerated more than expected by all analysts in early July, supporting traders’ bets the central bank will have to hike borrowing costs later this year after holding them steady next week.
Scientists have found traces of cocaine in wild sharks off the coast of Brazil, in a discovery that highlights the risks to marine life of the illegal cocaine trade.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will join finance ministers from Group of 20 nations in Rio de Janeiro this week for a series of meetings addressing urgent global issues, but the talks are likely to be overshadowed by U.S. politics.
The search for about 60 migrants lost at sea who departed the Bahamas earlier this month for Florida has been called off, according to U.S. and Bahamian officials.
A Vodou ceremony aboard a boat filled with desperate Haitian migrants seeking a safe landing ended in tragedy after candles and matches used in the ritual set gasoline-filled drums on fire, setting off an explosion that killed at least 40 people.
At least 40 Haitian migrants were killed and scores were injured after the boat they were traveling on caught fire off the northern coast of Haiti, the International Organization for Migration said Friday.
Federal authorities on Thursday announced sanctions and criminal charges against an alleged Tijuana-based international criminal group suspected of smuggling thousands of undocumented migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East into the United States.