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Venezuela has ordered the local office of the United Nations human rights body to suspend operations and given its staff 72 hours to leave, accusing it of promoting opposition to the South American country. The move came two days after the UN agency expressed “deep concern” over the detention of...

For decades, the Indigenous Yanomami have suffered at the hands of illegal gold miners, who destroyed vast stretches of their homeland and polluted their rivers with mercury. But since 2019, the crisis has reached new heights, with hundreds of Yanomami dying from conditions related to the mining...

The United States has proposed a rival draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and opposing a major ground offensive by its ally Israel in Rafah, according to the text seen by Reuters. The move comes after the U.S. signalled it would...

Ecuador's electoral court set April 21 for a referendum on measures to tighten security, fight organised crime, and reform the constitution, it said on February 14, amid worsening conflict between government forces and criminal gangs. The steps have been proposed by President Daniel Noboa, who...

Paraguay's senate on February 15 expelled one of the few opposition voices in national politics, sparking protests in the capital Asuncion and concerns over the fragile state of the country's democracy. Senator Kattya Gonzalez from the center-left National Meeting Party was dismissed from her...

Police have confiscated former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s passport and accused him of editing a draft decree to overturn election results, pressuring military chiefs to join a coup attempt and plotting to jail a Supreme Court justice. The February 8 operation included search warrants...

Fireworks erupted in El Salvador's capital on February 4 as gang-busting President Nayib Bukele claimed to have won reelection with more than 85 percent of votes cast: "a record in the entire democratic history of the world." Bukele, 42, polls as Latin America's most popular leader, possibly the...

President Nayib Bukele on February 4 secured a thumping victory in El Salvador's elections after voters cast aside concerns about erosion of democracy to reward him for a fierce gang crackdown that transformed security in the Central American country. Provisional results on February 5 show Bukele...

The European Union on February 2 imposed sanctions against five individuals from Guatemala for undermining democracy, the rule of law, or the peaceful transfer of power in Central America's most populous nation. The listings include the attorney general of Guatemala, Maria Consuelo Porras Argueta De...

Venezuela’s Supreme Justice Tribunal has upheld a ban which prevents presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado from holding office, upending the opposition’s plans for elections planned for later this year. Machado, a former lawmaker, won the opposition’s independently run presidential primary...