Tensions were running high between Colombia and Venezuela on Monday, less than 12 hours before Caracas was due to launch military exercises near their common border, Colombian media reported.
Read MoreTwenty-five slaughterhouses in Brazil have been added to China’s list of permitted sources of imported Brazilian meat, the Agriculture Ministry said on Monday.
Read MoreVenezuelan authorities have released 83 detainees under an agreement with the UN Human Rights Office, UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet said Monday in a report that painted an otherwise gloomy picture of a worsening crisis.
Read MoreRosa Elena Bonilla, a former first lady from Honduras, was sentenced this past Wednesday, Sept. 4, to 58 years in prison. An anti-corruption tribunal found her guilty of fraud and appropriation of public funds during the 2010-14 presidential term of her husband, Porfirio Lobo.
Read MoreHurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm over the weekend, lingering for days and leaving nearly unimaginable destruction in its path. The airport on Grand Bahama Island has been completely decimated, and entire neighborhoods have been razed. Hundreds, if not thousands, remain missing.
Read MoreVenezuela’s President Nicholas Maduro has ordered military maneuvers to be held on the border with neighboring Colombia.
Read MoreDemocracy Now! travels to the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona to follow the humanitarian activist Scott Warren into the Sonoran Desert as he accompanies other No More Deaths volunteers as they leave water and food for migrants making the treacherous journey north.
Read MoreEvaristo Alves de Souza, a small-scale farmer in in Brazil’s northern state of Rondonia, set fire to his field in order to rid it of weeds and leftover vegetation. When the wind turned, the fire raged out of control, leaving him with little recourse but to call the police.
Read MoreColombian Vice President Marta Lucia Ramirez on Thursday said the judiciary would pursue ex-commanders of the former guerrilla movement FARC who announced they were taking up arms again.
Read MoreA former commander in the Colombian rebel group FARC has called on his followers to take up arms, marking a major setback nearly three years after the rebels signed a peace agreement. Colombian President Ivan Duque has accused Venezuela of protecting a group of former FARC guerrilla commanders and fighters.
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