Tag: Americas

LIVE NOW: Biden Arrives in Mexico Ahead of North America Summit

President Joe Biden arrives Sunday evening at Santa Lucía, Mexico, to attend the North American Leader’s Summit with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday. …


Biden Arrives in Mexico Ahead of North America Summit

President Joe Biden arrives Sunday evening at Santa Lucía, Mexico, to attend the North American Leader’s Summit with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday. …


Brazilian Justice Minister Holds Press Conference After Bolsonaro Supporters Breach Congress

Brazilian Justice Minister Flavio Dino gives statements to the press after supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro breach the Brazilian Congress. …


Brazilian President, Justice Minister React After Bolsonaro Supporters Breach Congress

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Justice Minister Flavio Dino give statements to the press after supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro breach the Brazilian Congress on Jan. 8. …


Bolsonaro Supporters Breach Brazil’s Congress Building, Presidential Palace

A crowd of protesters broke through a security blockade and breached the Congress building in Brasilia on Jan. 8, according to videos from local broadcasters groups related to Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro. Protesters also breached the parking lots of the Planalto Palace, Brazil’s equivalent of the White House, according to CNN Brasil. Recently-inaugurated President Luiz Inacio Lula…


Brazilian ‘Mad Dog’ Freire Killed in Nazare

LISBON—Veteran Brazilian surfer Marcio Freire died on Thursday while practicing tow-in surfing on the giant waves in Nazare on the central coast of Portugal, the local maritime authority said. Support staff on jet-skis managed to get the 47-year-old to the beach, but all attempts to revive him failed. Freire was one of the three Brazilian…


Subway Train Collision in Mexico City Kills 1, Injures 57

MEXICO CITY—Two subway trains collided between two stations Saturday in Mexico City, killing at least one person and injuring 41, authorities said. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said on her Twitter account that the accident happened on Line 3 of the capital’s Metro system, without specifying the cause of the crash between the Potrero and La Raza…


29 Killed as Mexican Authorities Detail Raid to Arrest Son of ‘El Chapo’

Authorities in Mexico announced on Friday that 10 military personnel and 19 suspected gang members were killed in a wave of violence surrounding the arrest of an alleged cartel leader who is the son of convicted cartel drug kingpin Joaquín Archivaldo “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. In a blow-by-blow description of the operation to detain Ovidio…


Cuba Spy Ana Belen Montes Released After 20 Years Behind Bars

Ana Belen Montes, one of the highest-ranking U.S. officials ever proven to have spied for Cuba, has been released from prison early, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons confirmed Friday, after she spent more than two decades behind bars. Montes, 65, had in 2002 pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage after she was accused of…


US State Department Issues Warning to Americans Not to Travel to Mexican State

The U.S. Department of State on Thursday warned Americans not to travel to Sinaloa state, Mexico, following reports of widespread cartel violence after Ovidio Guzman Lopez, son of Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo,” was arrested. State Department spokesperson Ned Price, in a press conference, advised Americans not to go to Sinaloa, home to the Sinaloan…