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A preliminary report on the collapse of a Mexico City elevated subway line, which killed 26 people, blames poor welds in support beams.
The U.S. is returning unaccompanied Mexican children to Mexico without giving them adequate safety screenings, an Amnesty International report says.
Peru has finished tallying votes in the country’s tight presidential contest but no winner has been declared, with electoral authorities saying they are scrutinizing a small number of ballots amid unproven claims of vote tampering leveled by the apparent loser.
Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández has been ridiculed for his comment that ‘Mexicans came from the Indians, the Brazilians came from the jungle.’
Newly released data show that migrants were stopped 180,034 times across the southern border in May, nearly eight times the total a year ago.
El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has approved legislation making the cryptocurrency bitcoin legal tender in the country, the first nation to do so.
The U.S. Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on the daughter of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and a top army official.
Human Rights Watch says Colombian police are responsible for the deaths of 20 people during civil unrest that has raged for weeks.
With 95% of ballots tallied, leftist Pedro Castillo has a slight lead over conservative Keiko Fujimori.
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s party and allies appear poised to maintain their majority in the lower chamber of Mexico’s Congress.
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Sunday’s presidential election in Peru comes as many citizens are losing hope for their economy and their democracy.
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Officials have quietly deployed a mobile app relying on facial recognition technology to collect data on asylum seekers before they cross the border.
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Peru has announced a newly calculated COVID-19 death toll of over 180,000, far more than double the country’s previous count of nearly 70,000.
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Mexican soccer club Cruz Azul was long thought to be so cursed that its very name became slang for “choke.” But on Sunday, it won it all.
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Mexico’s big June 6 election is widely viewed as a referendum on the polarizing presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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Dozens of office-seekers have been killed in run-up to June 6 elections. Hundreds more have been threatened.
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The Mexican government says a private building project is destroying part of the outskirts of the ancient ruin site of Teotihuacán, near Mexico City.
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Former banker Guillermo Lasso, Ecuador’s new president, says he will escalate COVID-19 vaccination efforts and work to revive the economy.
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Baja California Gov. Jaime Bonilla in April proposed converting the Tijuana Country Club and golf course into a public recreational space.
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Even as Biden administration officials call Title 42 a ‘source of pain,’ they’re defending the Trump-era pandemic policy.
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Washington is grappling with a sharp increase in migrant families and children. But Mexico faces an even graver crisis amid large-scale expulsions from U.S.
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With his carefully crafted social media presence and populist politics, Nayib Bukele has become one of the most popular politicians on Earth. Now just one question remains: What does he want?
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Lucas Villa was well-known among protesters in his hometown, dancing, singing and encouraging his comrades. Then someone shot him eight times.
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Recriminations and allegations of shoddy maintenance and corruption emerge in the wake of train crash that killed 26.
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This COVID-19 vaccination strategy is considered key to reopen the U.S.-Mexico land border crossing, which has been closed to nonessential travel.
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L.A. County is reporting about two COVID-19 deaths a day, while the Bay Area is reporting four.
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California is digitizing COVID-19 vaccine cards, making it easier for people to prove they have been inoculated. But many businesses are worried asking to see proof of vaccination could scare off customers.
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President Biden is marking another milestone in his quest to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control.
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