NEW YORK – The United Nations will send a special mission to investigate human rights abuses in Chile, where a general strike went into its second day following a week of street protests that left […]
SANTIAGO – Over 60 people arrived in Santiago de Chile from Venezuela on Tuesday, in a special plane of the Chilean Air Force (FACH), after voluntarily leaving the South American country hit by a massive […]
SANTIAGO – As many as 94 Venezuelans returned to their country to benefit from the return plan “Vuelta a la Patria” implemented by the government of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan embassy in Santiago confirmed on Sunday. […]
WASHINGTON – The United States’ ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has resigned leaving President Donald Trump’s national security circle, White House officials said Tuesday. “It’s been eight years of intense time, and I’m […]
WASHINGTON — The United States is canceling a 1955 treaty with Iran establishing economic relations and consular rights between the two nations, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday. The move follows a ruling […]
SANTIAGO – Facundo Jones Huala, founder of the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM), has been transferred from the city of Esquel, in the Patagonian province of Chubut, to Santiago de Chile, where he will be brought […]
UNITED NATIONS – Hunger reached 821 million people in 2017 worldwide, of which about 39 million are Latin American, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in its new report. The figure represents a […]
By Héctor Silva Ávalos/Insight Crime GUATEMALA CITY – Mixed messages from Washington have left the door open for Guatemala President Jimmy Morales to strengthen his fight against the institutions investigating him for alleged illicit campaign […]
NEW YORK – The United States is leaving the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, U.S. envoy to the UN Nikki Haley announced on Tuesday, calling it “an organization that is not worthy of its name”, […]
CARACAS – Between 2015 and 2017, the number of Venezuelan immigrants in Latin America went from 89,000 to 900,000 people, which represents an increase of more than 900%, according to the International Organization for Migration […]
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