Category: Americas

Drug Gang Kills 20 in Attack on City Hall in Southern Mexico

SAN MIGUEL TOTOLAPAN, Mexico—A drug gang shot to death 20 people, including a mayor and his father, in the mountains of the southern Mexico state of Guerrero, officials said Thursday. Residents began burying the victims even as a video posted on social media showed men who identified themselves as the Tequileros gang claiming responsibility for…


Mayor and Father Among 18 Dead in Mexico Town Hall Shooting Attack

Gunmen shot and killed a mayor, his father, and 16 other people in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero on Wednesday, authorities said. San Miguel Totolapan town Mayor Conrado Mendoza Almeda and his father, a former mayor of the town, were identified among the victims killed in the shooting, State Attorney General Sandra Luz Valdovinos told Milenio…


Mother of Missing Mexico Woman Killed, 4th Since Early 2021

MEXICO CITY—Yet another mother searching for her disappeared child has been killed in Mexico, the fourth murder of a volunteer search activist in Mexico since the start of 2021. Activists said Tuesday the victim was Esmeralda Gallardo, who led efforts to find her missing 22-year-old daughter. The activist group “Voice of the Disappeared in Puebla”…


Ecuador Prison Clash Leaves at Least 15 Dead, 20 Injured

QUITO, Ecuador—A clash between inmates armed with guns and knives inside the Latacunga prison in central Ecuador on Monday left at least 15 people dead and 20 injured, authorities said. Officials attributed the fighting to national and international drug trafficking groups which have turned the Andean nation’s prisons into the scene of repeated massacres as…


Ecuador Prison Clash Leaves at Least 16 Dead, Including Drug Lord

QUITO, Ecuador—The death toll from a bloody fight among inmates at a prison in central Ecuador rose to 16 Tuesday, and authorities said one of the dead was an alleged drug gang boss who had evaded charges in Peru by faking his death during the pandemic. Officials said the number of wounded from clashes among…


Haiti Reports Cholera Deaths for First Time in 3 Years

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Haiti’s government on Sunday announced that at least eight people have died from cholera, raising concerns about a potentially fast-spreading scenario and reviving memories of an epidemic that killed nearly 10,000 people a decade ago. The cases—the first cholera deaths reported in three years—came in a community called Dekayet in southern Port-au-Prince and in…


New York Crowned the Richest City in the World 2022; Hong Kong Drops out of Top 10

American Consultation Firm Henley & Partners Group published its latest World’s Richest Cities Report on Sep 13. The report confirmed that New York, Tokyo, and San Francisco are the cities with the most millionaires. With Hong Kong dropping quickly from the 8th in 2021 to the 12th this year, it has become the most affected…


Brazil’s Election Sees Bolsonaro, Lula Head to Runoff Amid Tight Race

Brazil’s presidential election is headed for a runoff vote later this month after neither of the nation’s top two candidates managed to secure enough support on Sunday to claim an outright victory. Brazil’s election authority announced on Sunday that a second round of voting was a mathematical certainty. While former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,…


Bolsonaro, Lula Headed to Runoff After Tight Brazil Election

RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazil’s top two presidential candidates will face each other in a runoff vote after neither got enough support to win outright Sunday in an election to decide if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world’s fourth-largest democracy or keeps the conservative incumbent in office. With 99.5 percent of the…


With 52 Percent of Brazil Votes Counted, Bolsonaro Has Slight Lead

RIO DE JANEIRO—With 52 percent of the votes counted, conservative incumbent Jair Bolsonaro is slightly leading former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil’s presidential election. Bolsonaro has 46.3 percent support compared to 44.9 percent for da Silva of the leftist Workers’ Party. Six other candidates share the remaining votes in Sunday’s election. It…