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More refugees to come from Latin America, Caribbean under Biden's new 125,000 refugee cap
As the number of migrants coming to the U.S.'s southern border is climbing, the Biden administration aims to admit more refugees from Latin America and the Caribbean over the next year. The White House Friday released the targets for how many refugees it aims to admit over the next...
Mexico's president slams US aid for Ukraine and sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president on Friday slammed U.S. aid for Ukraine and economic sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba and other nations as the first of two high-level U.S.-Mexico meetings got underway in Washington. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a broad...
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Sept. 22 – 27, 2023 A plane in Brazil dropped water on a forest fire fanned by strong winds, high temperatures and dry weather. In northern Chile, Aymara Indigenous women weave textiles surrounded by the hills and sandy roads of the Atacama Desert where they raise llamas and...
Thousands of women march in Latin American cities calling for abortion rights
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The streets of cities across Latin America were bathed in green Thursday as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day. Latin American feminists have spent decades fighting to roll back strict prohibitions, although there...
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Sept 14 – 21, 2023 Chilean police carried puppies to be trained as police dogs during an Independence Day parade. Mexico's largest railroad suspended freight service after a upsurge in migrants hopping rides on north. Indigenous people in Brazil celebrated after the Supreme Court...
Everything you need to know about this year's meeting of leaders at the UN General Assembly
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — For two years, it was the coronavirus pandemic. Then, it was Russia's war in Ukraine. Throughout it all, the perils of climate change, poverty and inequality have steadily, increasingly thrummed through each convening of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly. ...
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Sept. 8-14, 2023 Scientists in Colombia are breeding mosquitoes to fight dengue fever, Chileans marked the 50 year anniversary of a coup that ushered in a brutal military dictatorship, forward Jenni Hermoso, who has accused now-suspended president of the Spanish soccer federation...
US sanctions Lebanon-South America network accused of financing Hezbollah
BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday slapped terrorism sanctions on a family network of seven individuals and businesses in Lebanon and South America accused of financing the militant group Hezbollah, including a Lebanese man who officials say was involved in two deadly attacks in Argentina...
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Sept. 1 – Sept. 7, 2023 In Buenos Aires, a couple dances Tango in the World Championship final round. In Chile, locals commemorate the 50th anniversary that brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power. In South America fans prepped for the FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifying round and in...
Latin America women's rights groups say their abortion win in Mexico may hold the key to US struggle
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Women's rights activists in Latin America have long looked to the United States as a model in their decades-long struggle to chip away at abortion restrictions in their highly religious countries. But after a historic Mexican Supreme Court ruling decriminalizing...
