- First lady Jill Biden visits Panama on Latin America tour
![First lady Jill Biden waves as she arrives in Panama City, Panama, Friday, May 20, 2022. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)]()
- Nicaraguan bishop fasts to protest police harassment
![FILE - Rolando Alvarez, Bishop of Matagalpa, attends a press conference regarding the Roman Catholic Church's agreeing to act as "mediator and witness" in a national dialogue between members of civil society and the government in Managua, Nicaragua, May 3, 2018. Alvarez began an “indefinite fast” Friday, May 20, 2022 inside a church to protest increasing harassment from national police, who he said followed him throughout the entire previous day.]()
- AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
![A girl stands in her home in Quilombo Mesquita, a community of descendants from slaves, during its traditional cultural-religious festival "Folia do Divino Espirito Santo", in Cidade Ocidental, 50 km from Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, May 12, 2022. The festival, held for more than 100 years, represents the cultural resistance of the community and the eve of the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Brazil.]()
- US to ease a few economic sanctions against Venezuela
![FILE - Children play on the letter "P" that is part of the acronym for the state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) on the sidewalk in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 2, 2022. The United States government is moving to ease a few economic sanctions on Venezuela, which sits atop the world’s largest oil reserves and where about three quarters of its population live on less than $1.90 a day and lack access to clean, running water and electricity.]()
- Guatemala leader won't attend summit in LA after US critique
![Guatemalan Attorney General Consuelo Porras, left, and President Alejandro Giammattei pose for photos after she was sworn in for another four-year term, at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Monday, May 16, 2022.]()
- Ransomware gang threatens to overthrow Costa Rica government
![FILE - Presidential candidate Rodrigo Chaves greets supporters as he arrives to a polling station during a presidential runoff election in San Jose, Costa Rica, April 3, 2022. Chaves, who won the election, declared a state of emergency over a ransomware attack as soon as he was sworn in early May 2022.]()
More From The Border
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Venezuelan opposition faction backed by the United States announced...
![FILE - Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido poses for a group photo with residents after presenting his unity plan for Venezuelans, in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. The faction of the Venezuelan opposition backed by the United States says it plans to hold primary contests next year to choose a presidential candidate for the planned 2024 election.]()
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's President Luis Arce says he may not go to the Summit of the...
![FILE - Bolivia's President Luis Arce addresses the nation at the presidential palace in La Paz, Bolivia, Jan. 22, 2022. Arce said in a tweet late May 10, 2022 that he may not go to the Summit of the Americas if some countries are not invited, joining Mexico’s leader in objecting to suggestions that Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua might be excluded from the June meeting in Los Angeles.]()
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COSOLEACAQUE, Mexico (AP) — The director of an online news site in southeastern Mexico had been...
![A black ribbon hangs outside the family home of video-journalist Sheila Johana Garcia Olivera where her remains lay during her wake in Minatitlan, Veracruz state, Mexico, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Garcia is one of two journalists from the online news site El Veraz in Cosoleacaque who were shot to death on May 9, raising to 11 the number of such killings in the country this year.]()
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Tuesday that he would not attend next month's Summit...
![Cuban president Miguel Diaz Canel and his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador chat after signing bilateral agreements at Revolution Palace in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, May 8, 2022. (Yamil Lage/Pool Photo via AP)]()
Immigration
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![Jessica Pflumm of Olathe, Kansas, poses with Maks, a Ukrainian boy she and her family are working to adopt. The Pflumms are among dozens of families whose adoptions are on hold because of the war in Ukraine. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has halted the process of international adoption. Ukraine has stopped all international adoptions as the country copes with the turmoil unleashed on its courts by the war. (Photo Courtesy of Jessica Pflumm via AP)]()
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![Migrants who had crossed the Rio Grande river into the U.S. are under custody of National Guard members as they await the arrival of U.S. Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass, Texas, Friday, May 20, 2022. The Eagle Pass area has become increasingly a popular crossing corridor for migrants, especially those from outside Mexico and Central America, under Title 42 authority, which expels migrants without a chance to seek asylum on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19. A judge was expected to rule on a bid by Louisiana and 23 other states to keep Title 42 in effect before the Biden administration was to end it Monday.]()
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![FILE - In this April 1, 2019, photo, Noelle Fries, 6, left, and Galen Biel, 6, both of Minneapolis, attend a rally at the Minnesota Capitol to kick off a year-long drive to try to ensure that all Minnesota residents are counted in the 2020 census. Around 1 in 20 residents in Arkansas and Tennessee were missed during the 2020 census. Other U.S. states, including Minnesota, had significant overcounts of their populations, according to figures the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday, May 19, 2022.]()
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![FILE - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, center, embrace campaign volunteer Riley Roberts in a hug, the morning after her Congressional election upset of U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley, Wednesday, June 27, 2018, in New York. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, used her social media accounts to confirm her engagement to Roberts, a marketing professional whom she met while both were undergraduate students at Boston University in 2011.]()
Cartels & The Drug War
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![FILE - Juan, of Colombia, hangs his laundry to dry at a shelter for migrants on April 21, 2022, in Tijuana, Mexico. Colombians were stopped at the U.S.-Mexico border more than 15,000 times in March, up nearly 60% from February and nearly 100-fold over last year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures. AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)]()
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![FILE - Migrants sleep under a gazebo at a park in Reynosa, Mexico, March 27, 2021. The camp of migrants mainly from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti sprung up after U.S. officials. citing the pandemic, invoked a a health rule that denies migrants a chance to seek asylum.]()
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![A student focuses on her lesson at Casa Kolping, an alternative education center where child migrants from two pastor-run shelters take classes every weekday morning, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, March 28, 2022. Education is a big challenge for children on their migration journey, but opportunities like this give them a chance to catch up on academics and to find emotional support.]()
- With clever Super Bowl ads, an irresistible fruit and apparently insatiable appetite from U.S. consumers, Mexico’s avocado producers have so far been able to separate avocados from the conflictive landscape that produces them — at least until a... By MARK STEVENSON
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![Republican candidate for Pennsylvania U.S. Senate Dave McCormick talks to supporters as returns show a close race during his returns watch party in the Pennsylvania primary election, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Pittsburgh.]()
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![A man passes by Russian tanks destroyed in a recent battle against Ukrainians in the village of Dmytrivka, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, May 23, 2022.]()
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![President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at Akasaka Palace, Monday, May 23, 2022, in Tokyo.]()
