Brazilian prosecutors have launched an investigation into massive wildfires in the Amazon region. The probe will look into why a “day of fire,” announced by farmers in the region last week, was not barred from taking place in the state of Para, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Read MoreMore than 3,000 human remains have been found in the Sonoran Desert, most of them of migrants fleeing their home countries to embark on an uncertain and perilous journey to the United States.
Read MoreVenezuela on Wednesday opened an embassy in North Korea, At the opening ceremony, Venezuela’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ruben Dario Molina criticized US “attacks” against the governments in Caracas and Pyongyang.
Read MoreColombia said Tuesday that its capacity to deal with the mass influx of Venezuelan migrants had been “surpassed,” adding that it had only received 30 per cent of the necessary international funding.
Read MoreIn El Salvador, 21-year-old rape survivor Evelyn Hernandez, who was being retried on aggravated homicide charges for having a stillborn birth in 2016, has been acquitted.
Read MoreVolunteers with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths have been venturing into the harsh Sonoran Desert for years to leave water, food and other life-saving supplies for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read MoreRussian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu expressed support on Thursday for oil-rich Venezuela’s efforts to counter “attempts by the United States to change the legally elected government,” reported dpa news.
Read MoreWe speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sonia Nazario, who has closely detailed why migrants from Central America are fleeing their homes in an attempt to seek asylum in the United States. Nazario spent a month in Honduras documenting how corruption and gang violence are forcing many people to flee.
Read MoreTen years ago, I flew across the Amazon Jungle, amazed by its immensity though also alarmed by scares where thick greenery had been cleared away and substituted by dismal remains of dead trees, or dry cattle pastures and soy plantations.
Read MoreReyna Díaz cooks beans, chicken, pork and desserts in her solar cooker, which she sets up in the open courtyard of her home in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of this town in southwestern Mexico.
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