Caribbean

Dominican Republic, France report Caribbean virus cases

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Health officials in the Dominican Republic and France on Sunday reported the fi...
19:01 1 March 2022

Socialist hardliner aims gun on Guaidó march in Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Socialist hardliners in Venezuela opened fire during a march headed by Juan Guaidó, injuring a...
23:01 28 February 2022

Mexico confirms first 2 cases of coronavirus

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s assistant health secretary announced Friday that the country now has two confirmed cases of ...
21:26 28 February 2022

Cruise ship sails to St. Maarten after COVID-19 scare

HAVANA (AP) — A British cruise ship turned away by the Dominican Republic after passengers suffered flu-like symptoms wa...
17:10 28 February 2022

Dominican Republic turns back cruise ship amid virus fears

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic turned back a cruise ship carrying 1,500 people on Thurs...
19:23 27 February 2022

Colombians grapple with a big problem: wandering hippos

DORADAL, Colombia (AP) — Maria Jaramilla awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of her panicked mule. When she lo...
20:46 23 February 2022

Brazilian transgender dancer shatters Carnival parade taboo

SAO PAULO (AP) — When dancer Camila Prins entered Sao Paulo’s Carnival parade grounds, a costume of feathers clinging to...
5:02 23 February 2022

Ending Putin’s support of Venezuela no easy feat for US

MOSCOW (AP) — In October 2016, the head of Russia’s largest oil company traveled to the birthplace of Hugo Chávez, in th...
5:01 19 February 2022

Killing of 7-year-old stokes anger in Mexico over femicides

MEXICO CITY — The killing of a 7-year-old girl on the southern outskirts of Mexico City has stoked rising anger over the brutal slayings of women, inc...
3:10 18 February 2022

Bolsonaro stresses Christian morals amid Rio’s pre-Carnival

RIO DE JANEIRO — President Jair Bolsonaro addressed tens of thousands of evangelicals on a Rio de Janeiro beach Saturday, telling them Brazil's govern...
0:01 16 February 2022

Haiti officials say 15 children died in residence fire

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A fire swept through a Haitian children's home run by a Pennsylvania-based religious nonprofit group, killing 15 children, off...
21:48 14 February 2022

Transgender woman poised to make Argentine soccer history

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Dozens of trophies, balls and cups sit on two worn, wooden shelves in the small home in a Buenos Aires suburb of Mara Gómez,...
5:02 14 February 2022

With government paralyzed, rising crime terrifies Haitians

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Thousands of young Haitians spent 2019 on the streets, demanding President Jovenel Moise resign over his government’s failure ...
17:17 13 February 2022

Warren Buffett’s son helps Colombia kick cocaine curse

TIBU, Colombia — With Colombian military snipers in position, Howard Buffett descends from a helicopter and trudges through the wet grass in steel-toe...
14:18 13 February 2022

Official: Puerto Rico govt loses $2.6M in phishing scam

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico's government has lost more than $2.6 million after falling for an email phishing scam, according to a senior offic...
2:39 13 February 2022

Report highlights dangers for asylum seekers in Mexican city

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo continues to be a dangerous place for asylum seekers waiting to cross into the United States aft...
22:53 11 February 2022

Puerto Rico’s economy in limbo as governor rejects debt deal

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico's fragile economy is facing an uncertain future after the island's governor rejected a settlement announced late S...
5:05 10 February 2022

Mexico won’t really raffle off huge presidential jet

MEXICO CITY — Mexicans will no longer have to worry about where to park a Boeing Dreamliner when the government raffles off the luxurious presidential...
19:56 7 February 2022

Brazil indigenous protest new gov’t moves on their lands

SAO PAULO — Brazil's far-right government drew protests from indigenous groups Wednesday, first by naming a former evangelical missionary to head a de...
0:09 6 February 2022

Tiny indigenous land highlights Brazil’s environmental woes

SAO PAULO — Their bodies painted black, dozens of members the Brazil’s Guarani Mbya tribe lift their hands and sing a mourning song for hundreds of fe...
0:32 5 February 2022

Ecuador president slammed for ugly words about harassment

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador's President Lenín Moreno has scrambled to apologize for comments suggesting women tend to complain about sexual harassment wh...
19:05 2 February 2022

AP exclusive: Law firm dumps Maduro official amid outcry

BOGOTA, Colombia — A U.S. law firm that was hired for $12.5 million by a top official in Nicolás Maduro's government has decided to dump the controver...
22:56 30 January 2022

Mag 7.7 quake hits between Cuba and Jamaica, but no injuries

HAVANA — A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and eastern Cuba on Tuesday, shaking a vast area from Mexico ...
22:01 28 January 2022

Puerto Rico opens only 20% of schools amid ongoing quakes

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico opened only 20% of its public schools on Tuesday following a strong earthquake that delayed the start of classes b...
12:01 28 January 2022

Ricky Martin finds inspiration in Puerto Rico protests

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Ricky Martin’s wide smile began to fade as the Puerto Rican superstar talked about his next album.
4:02 28 January 2022

Normalcy returns to Guatemala-Mexico border after caravan

FRONTERA HIDALGO, Mexico — From the roadside stand where his family sells mole, barbecue and chicken stew, Miguel Ángel Vázquez has seen all the carav...
15:46 24 January 2022

Puerto Ricans protest in anger over unused emergency aid

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hundreds of people joined a protest Thursday organized by Puerto Rican singer René Pérez of Calle 13 fame in a demonstration r...
23:37 23 January 2022

Mexican guardsmen break up migrant caravan along highway

FRONTERA HIDALGO, Mexico — Hundreds of Central American migrants were hauled onto buses by Mexican national guardsmen and immigration agents after cro...
22:01 23 January 2022

Girl’s family: ‘Impossible’ to lean from cruise ship window

INDIANAPOLIS — The parents of an Indiana girl who fell to her death from the open window of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico contend it was “physic...
19:18 23 January 2022

Mexico begins flying, busing migrants back to Honduras

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — Hundreds of Central American migrants who waded across a river into Mexico in hopes of eventually reaching the U.S. were sent...
20:51 21 January 2022