LATIN AMERICA

House China Committee Chair Mike Gallagher told Fox News Digital that China has the potential to use cargo cranes as a “tool" to “disrupt American trade and military mobilization.

As Taiwan’s diplomatic partners dwindle and turn instead to rival China, Taiwanese President President Tsai Ing-wen is aiming to shore up ties with the self-governing island’s remaining allies during a trip this week to Central America

As Taiwan’s diplomatic partners dwindle and turn instead to rival China, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is aiming to shore up ties with the self-governing island’s remaining allies during a trip this week to Central America.

Members of the House China Select Committee will inspect Chinese-made cranes at the Port of Miami, in light of fears they might be used for surveillance.

Honduras’ decision to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of China is yet another sign of growing Chinese influence in Latin America

Honduras’ decision to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of China is yet another sign of growing Chinese influence in Latin America.

Unusually for high-altitude balloons, the Chinese one shot down by the US Air Force in February flew low enough to be seen from the ground. That turned it into a rare, in-your-face symbol for what US officials call an increasingly aggressive, years-long spying campaign by China around the globe. Under President Xi Jinping, China has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into upgrading its military, from nuclear missiles to hypersonic glide vehicles. That apparently includes investing in the so-

Unusually for high-altitude balloons, the Chinese one shot down by the US Air Force in February flew low enough to be seen from the ground. That turned it into a rare, in-your-face symbol for what US officials call an increasingly aggressive, years-long spying campaign by China around the globe. Under President Xi Jinping, China has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into upgrading its military, from nuclear missiles to hypersonic glide vehicles. That apparently includes investing in the so-

Unusually for high-altitude balloons, the Chinese one shot down by the US Air Force in February flew low enough to be seen from the ground. That turned it into a rare, in-your-face symbol for what US officials call an increasingly aggressive, years-long spying campaign by China around the globe. Under President Xi Jinping, China has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into upgrading its military, from nuclear missiles to hypersonic glide vehicles. That apparently includes investing in the so-

New rules are being introduced in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain, before further roll out.

China said a second spy balloon seen over the Caribbean and Latin America was also blown off course by the weather, the same explanation it gave for the one found over the U.S.

Concerns about the balloon have derailed a vital visit to China this week by the US's top diplomat.

Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said on Friday night that there's another Chinese surveillance balloon traveling over Latin America.

A total of 86 journalists and media workers were killed globally in 2022, a sharp increase from the average of 58 killings per year from 2019–2021.

The two leaders set out to talk about working together on migration, fentanyl interdiction and the economy. But first, they sparred over the history of U.S. support in Latin America.

Companies have been able to put off borrowing at high rates, but they must start to address the wall of high-yield maturities coming in 2024.

President Biden eased sanctions on Venezuela. That's a bad energy policy for America. Bad foreign policy. And bad environmental policy.

LGBTQ people fight for their rights across the world

LGBTQ people fight for their rights across the world.

Xin Xin, the last panda in Latin America, is not your average bear.

Mexico’s president says he’ll host a meeting of leaders from Latin America this month, including most of the wave of recently elected leftists

Two former beauty queens — Fabiola Valent�n of Puerto Rico and former Mariana Valera of Argentina — announced this week that they had secretly married

The rebound in headline gross domestic product matters for the midterms, but there’s weakness below the surface.

IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol warned emerging and developing countries are most vulnerable to soaring energy prices.

"La Reina del Sur" star Kate del Castillo discusses the hit series, the importance of representation and why she loves subtitles.

American stockpiles of distillate fuel are exceptionally low, which could mean higher costs for everything from trucking to farming to construction.

The United Nations says almost three-quarters of the 6 million Venezuelan migrants currently in Latin America lack adequate food, shelter, employment or medical care

The United Nations says almost three-quarters of the 6 million Venezuelan migrants currently in Latin America lack adequate food, shelter, employment or medical care.

Cheap electric cars are selling fast but the end of subsidies could end the sales boom.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken began his South American mission in Bogota, Colombia, before he heads to Santiago, Chile, and Lima, Peru.

There's this 400-year-old forensic test that scientists have long warned is unreliable when it comes to determining whether a baby was born dead or alive. So why is it still being used in many parts of Latin America?

Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world in 2021, including some 54 in Mexico, which assumed the position of the deadliest country

Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world in 2021, including some 54 in Mexico, which assumed the position of the deadliest country.

Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world in 2021, including some 54 in Mexico, which assumed the position of the deadliest country

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Students pay higher prices when states starve their public colleges and universities. Loan forgiveness won’t solve that problem, just make it worse.

It’s so much more than the flavors.

The cheap cost of clean energy enables the country to make great strides. Further steps will be more expensive.

Jair Bolsonaro’s populist tendencies have long demanded vigilance. Limiting the damage to Latin America’s most populous country now requires action, too.

The US economy, and US soft power, are far more robust than many critics would care to admit.

The evil eye symbol (🧿) has been found through thousands of years of history across cultures, including in Latin America and parts of Asia . The symbol, most often depicted as four concentric circles in the shape of an eye, is used to ward off variations of evil intentions. More recently, it’s trended on the pages of fast fashion websites and manifestation TikToks. In much of the Middle East and North Africa, the symbol wards off “nazar” — a curse motivated by the envy of others that can bring about bad things in your life. It even made me hesitant to make this comic — the evil eye is always watching.

A conversation with Leah Boustan, co-author of “Streets of Gold,” about what big data reveals about the economic success of immigrant families and why newcomers are the most patriotic Americans.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pressing on with with his campaign to obtain support from Latin America

The green bandana, a symbol of abortion rights in Latin America, has been adopted by activists in the United States.

U.S. officials say they were stricken with vertigo, confusion, and memory loss both at home and work in Washington, D.C.

It’s one of the United States’ few enduring alliances in an often-turbulent Latin America, one built around a decades-long partnership combating the nation’s drug cartels

Leftist Gustavo Petro’s victory in Colombia was the most stunning example yet of how the pandemic has transformed the politics of Latin America.

For the first time ever, voters must chose between two anti-establishment, populist presidents who promise to transform the country.

Crude is trading at a record in many local currencies. That will eventually lead to demand destruction.

Argentina has confirmed its first case of the monkeypox virus on Friday in a man who recently traveled to Spain

BABY FORMULA FROM EUROPE slated TO ARRIVE OVER WEEKEND

The Summit of the Americas is a little more than two weeks away in Los Angeles, and there's still no clear answer on which countries are going.

U.S. first lady Jill Biden has arrived in Panama, her second stop on a three-country Latin America visit before the United States hosts the Summit of the Americas next month in Los Angeles

Across Latin America, the sharpest price spike in a generation has left many widely consumed local products suddenly hard to attain.

No item is more essential to Mexican dinner tables than the corn tortilla. Months ago, García, 67, would buy a stack of tortillas weighing several kilograms to take home to her family every day. “Everything has gone up here,” she told The Associated Press while standing outside a tortilla shop.

Advocates fear regression on abortion access in the United States would give momentum to illiberal forces elsewhere.

Recent legislative activities in countries show the U.S. risks being out of step with the progress that the rest of the world is making in protecting sexual and reproductive rights.

As women in the United States find themselves on the verge of possibly losing the constitutional right to access abortion services, courts in other parts of the world, including in many historically conservative societies, have moved in the opposite direction.

A new report by Pew Research Center says about 6 million adults in the United States identify as Afro Latino, a distinction with deep roots in colonial Latin America.

A Mexico City borough has held Latin America’s most famous re-enactment of the crucifixion of Christ with spectators for the first time in two years, after the coronavirus pandemic forced televised-only performances in 2020 and 2021

The Biden administration has leveled unusually tough criticism against Mexico, an ally, and Nicaragua, an adversary.

Marjorie Miller has been named as the new administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes.

While countries like Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico have condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the presidents of Venezuela and Nicaragua have been vocal in their support of President Vladimir Putin.

Colombia has become the latest country in Latin America to expand access to abortion, with the nation’s Constitutional Court voting to legalize the procedure until the 24th week of pregnancy.

Huang is an accomplished photojournalist who has built an impressive body of work in Texas and Latin America.

In Costa Rica, election officials are encouraging those infected with the coronavirus to skip voting in upcoming national elections.

Ever wonder where the tradition of tamaladas during Christmas started? KSAT News Now got the answer from a professor at UTSA.

A leftist millennial who rose to prominence during anti-government protests has been elected Chile’s next president after a bruising campaign against a free-market firebrand likened to Donald Trump.

Fernando González, the head of Caribbean newsgathering for The Associated Press, has died in Havana.

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A UNICEF report says severe acute childhood malnutrition is expected to more than double this year in Haiti as the country struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, a spike in violence and dwindling resources.

Space-related news is not just flowing from the world’s richest, biggest nations.

Books from Europe and Latin America that blur the boundaries of fiction, history and memoir are the final six contenders for the 50,000 pound ($69,000) International Booker Prize.

Facing swift blowback from allies and aid groups, the White House says President Joe Biden plans to lift his predecessor’s historically low cap on refugees by next month.

A deep 7.4% recession in the Latin America and Caribbean last year wiped out nearly a decade’s worth of growth, according to International Monetary Fund data. The slowdown in lending to Latin America reflects a broader, global pullback, as China turns inward to bolster its own recovery efforts amid the pandemic. The China Development Bank and the foreign ministry didn’t respond to questions about the reasons for the decline in Chinese loans to Latin America. AdFor the region’s leaders, Chinese loans for big ticket infrastructure projects are hard to resist. No American firms placed bids for the project, which did not directly benefit from any Chinese loans.

The abortion law goes into force Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)BUENOS AIRES – Argentina’s groundbreaking abortion law went into force Sunday under the watchful eyes of women’s groups and government officials, who hope to ensure its full implementation despite opposition from some conservative and church groups. Supporters of the law say they expect lawsuits from anti-abortion groups in Argentina’s conservative provinces and some private health clinics might refuse to carry out the procedure. The law’s supporters expect backlash in Argentina’s conservative provinces. Gómez Alcorta said criminal charges currently pending against more than 1,500 women and doctors who performed abortions should be lifted.

WASHINGTON – When Joe Biden took the oath of office as the 46th president, he became not only the oldest newly inaugurated U.S. chief executive in history but also the oldest sitting president ever. That’s 78 days older than President Ronald Reagan was when he left office in 1989. A look at how the country Biden now leads has changed over his lifetime and how his presidency might reflect that. The world population in Biden’s lifetime has grown from about 2.3 billion to 7.8 billion. The month Biden was born, a dozen eggs averaged about 60 cents in U.S. cities -- two hours of minimum wage work.

Many expressed hope Biden would right U.S. democracy two weeks after rioters stormed the Capitol, shaking the faith of those fighting for democracy in their own countries. Biden “understands the importance of cooperation among nations,” said former Colombian president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Juan Manuel Santos, who left office in 2018. “President Biden’s message of unity as he takes office is one that resonates with New Zealanders,” Ardern said. World leaders also acknowledged the history of Vice President Kamala Harris taking office. “That is an historic moment and one that, I think as a father of daughters, you can only celebrate," Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has met with his designated successor as America’s top diplomat and is rejecting suggestions that the United States is a “banana republic” because of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. As Pompeo spoke, the State Department instructed U.S. embassies overseas to defend the American political process even while Trump sought to subvert it. “In the wake of yesterday’s reprehensible attack on the U.S. Capitol, many prominent people – including journalists and politicians – have likened the United States to a banana republic,” Pompeo said late Thursday. “The slander reveals a faulty understanding of banana republics and of democracy in America.”“In a banana republic, mob violence determines the exercise of power,” he continued. “In the United States, law enforcement officials quash mob violence so that the people’s representatives can exercise power in accordance with the rule of law and constitutional government.

Abortion-rights activists watch live video streaming of lawmakers in session, outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. Congress approved a bill that legalize abortion in Argentina. “Safe, legal and free abortion is now the law,” Fernández tweeted after the vote, noting that it had been an election pledge. The generational shift was reflected in the stance taken by Vice President Fernández de Kirchner. Argentina’s feminist movement has been demanding legal abortion for more than 30 years and activists say the bill’s approval could mark a watershed in Latin America, where the Catholic Church has long dominated.

The country's 1.4 million health workers will be the first to get the shots, followed by the elderly, those with underlying health conditions that make them more vulnerable to the disease, and teachers. Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Mexico was the first country in Latin America to get the vaccine, though others were close behind. In Costa Rica, which is the third country in the region to begin using the Pfizer vaccine, the first shot was given Thursday to Elizabeth Castillo, 91. Argentina, which has run into problems obtaining the Pfizer vaccine, received a flight carrying 300,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. Argentina plans to become the first country in Latin America to administer the Russian vaccine starting next week.

New York police officers move in on the scene of a shooting at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, in New York. A man was shot by police after shots rang out at the end of a Christmas choral concert on the steps of the Manhattan cathedral Sunday afternoon. The shooting happened just before 4 p.m. at the church which is the mother church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and seat of its bishop. The note was first reported by NBC New York. In the note, the law enforcement official said, Vasquez wrote he did not expect to make it home.

The Italian-American automaker, which is finalizing its full merger with French rival PSA Peugeot, reported a net profit in the three months ending Sept. 30 of 1.2 billion ($1.4 billion). That compares with a loss of 179 million euros a year earlier. Latin America, the only other region to post a profit, saw it narrow by two-thirds to 46 million euros. Overall, the carmaker said global earnings before tax and interest were a record 2.3 billion euros despite a 6% fall in revenues to 26 billion euros. PSA on Wednesday said that revenue in its auto division grew by 1.2% in the quarter to 12 billion euros, as a strong product mix offset lower volumes.

(AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)BOGOTA – Colombia reached 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Saturday, becoming the second country in Latin America to report that number in less than a week. The nation of 50 million saw cases peak in August and has seen a decline since but still continues to register around 8,000 new infections a day. Argentina hit 1 million confirmed cases on Monday and Peru and Mexico are expected to reach the grim marker in the weeks ahead. Brazil ranks third worldwide in the number of virus cases and passed 1 million infections back in June. Colombia has become the eighth country to hit 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases.

Argentina reached 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, according to the Ministry of Health. But as Argentina passed 1 million virus cases Monday, it is now smaller cities like Ushuaia that are seeing some of the most notable upticks. Argentina has seen cases spiral despite instituting one of the world’s longest lockdowns. “We had a plateau.”Throughout the region, testing remains a hurdle. Brazil reached 1 million cases in June and now is up to 5.2 million for the pandemic.

All rights reserved)MEXICO CITY – The U.N.’s International Labour Organization said Wednesday that at least 34 million jobs have been lost in Latin America due to the coronavirus pandemic. The count was up from the ILO’s previous estimates in early August that 14 million jobs had been lost in the region. The organization's Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Vinícius Pinheiro, called it “an unprecedented challenge.”Pinheiro said the third quarter had brought a recovery in economic activity and, according to preliminary data, a tentative recovery in employment. The ILO figures were based on data from nine countries which account for 80% of the region's workforce. The ILO lists Latin America and the Caribbean as the worst-hit region in the world in terms of lost working hours, with a drop of 20.9% in the first three quarters of the year, compared to an average of 11.7% worldwide.

SAN ANTONIO – A new course at the University of Texas at San Antonio will educate high schoolers about Latin Americans' historical and cultural contributions. Liliana Saldana, a Mexican American studies professor at UTSA, said this course is a first-of-its-kind and offers a unique opportunity for high school students. “This the first time that UTSA offers dual-credit, Mexican-American studies and dual-language course,” Saldana said. “We focus on the Mexican American experience, Puerto Rican experience and also the Central American experience. It’s asking questions about, you know, economic justice in our communities, especially with the pandemic going on,” Saldana said.

Whats happening with the journalists in Peru is somewhat a reflection of whats happening with the Peruvian population, said Zuliana Lainez, secretary general of the National Association of Journalists of Peru, a union based in Lima. At least 82 reporters in Peru died from the disease between March 16, when Peru imposed a lockdown because of the health crisis, and Aug. 17, according to the association. The Press Emblem Campaign, a Geneva-based group launched by journalists, said July 1 that Peru had lost the most journalists to COVID-19 of any country in the world. It has logged 560,000 coronavirus cases, placing it in the top 10 countries half of them in Latin America with the most confirmed cases in the world. Freelancer Ricardo Gutirrez Aparicio was among the first Peruvian journalists reported to have died of COVID-19.

SAN SALVADOR For months, the strictest measures confronting the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America seemed to keep infections in check in El Salvador, but a gradual reopening combined with a political stalemate has seen infections increase nearly fourfold. Both have an eye on legislative elections scheduled for early next year and appear unwilling to cede any advantage. Its a reversal in a country that early in the pandemic seemed to have the situation under control. But the legislative body has declined to do so, and lawmakers have been locked in a monthslong standoff with Bukele. "If El Salvador collapses, we all go down and were already sinking.

The Coca-Cola Company announced Thursday that its joining the hard seltzer beverage trend and is giving White Claws and Truly beverages some stiff competition. Topo Chico Hard Seltzer will be coming to stores, but in the U.S., youll have to wait to get your hands on some. Read the full statement from the company:The Coca-Cola Company is committed to exploring new products in dynamic beverage categories, including hard seltzer. Topo Chico Hard Seltzer is an experimental drink inspired by Topo Chico sparkling mineral water, which has been popular with many mixologists. Topo Chico Hard Seltzer will be offered in select cities in Latin America later this year.