Latin America

Joseph Safra, a Lebanese-Brazilian billionaire who built an international financial empire and financed a hostile takeover of Chiquita Brands International, died Thursday at age 82.

request emergency authorization, raising hopes that the hard-hit nation can begin its immunization rollout as early as this month.

More than 1,000 Honduran migrants are heading toward Guatemala, many of them betting that the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden will roll back some of the Trump administration’s restrictive immigration policies.

Venezuela’s authoritarian regime held congressional elections Sunday that gave President Nicolás Maduro complete control of all levers of power in a vote the country’s opposition rejected as fraudulent.

Widening deforestation is leading to growing pressure on Brazil’s nationalist leader. The election of Joe Biden, who has vowed to make the environment a foreign-policy priority, will increase demands for Brazil to step up efforts to curb destruction of the Amazon rainforest.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acted as the October arrest in the U.S. of the former defense minister for allegedly helping a drug cartel sparked anger among Mexico’s top military officers.

President Nicolás Maduro is expected to win control of congress, and his country will join Cuba and Nicaragua as the only nations in the Americas where a regime dominates all branches of the government and armed forces.

Gunmen armed with explosives sowed terror overnight in a small city in northern Brazil, the latest in a spate of violent bank heists that have challenged President Jair Bolsonaro’s promise to restore law and order.

Iran has sent arms and dispatched paramilitary operatives to help Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro maintain his hold on power, the top U.S. military commander for Central and South America said.

A group of 30 assailants took hostages and robbed a bank in a small Brazilian city, leaving behind unexploded bombs and streets littered with cash.

While most of the world’s largest economies embarked this year on spending sprees to cushion the economic hit from Covid, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has doubled down on budget discipline and austerity.

A million new investors, spurred by social-media celebrities, have overcome a traditional reluctance and entered Brazil’s stock market since March.

The Trump administration blacklisted China National Electronics Import & Export Corp., saying the state-owned firm sold goods that aided political repression by the regime of President Nicolás Maduro.

An alliance of hip-hop musicians, writers, internationally known artists and Black activists has emerged as a driving force against censorship and government repression in Cuba.

Mexican security forces captured the man they said was behind a 2019 massacre that killed nine members of a breakaway Mexican-American Mormon community.

Mexico’s economy bounced back in the third quarter, led by increases in industrial output as business reopened from shutdowns to slow the spread of the coronavirus, but activity remained well below its year-earlier level, revised data show.

Argentina declared three days of mourning as soccer fans across the nation poured into the streets to remember their fallen hero, the star striker Diego Maradona, after his death from a heart attack.

The country’s congressional lawmakers, more than half of whom are under criminal investigation, impeached a president and sparked protests that forced another to resign, throwing the country into its worst political crisis in two decades.

Video footage showed two security guards outside a Carrefour supermarket pinning the customer to the floor while repeatedly punching him in the head last Thursday.