Pope Leo XIV is embarking on the longest and farthest trip of his pontificate three weeks after lung cancer surgery.

Haiti’s National Police agency has found the charred remains of a vehicle used by four missing Salvadoran aviation technicians.

COMMENTARY With Trump's presidency all but in ashes after this week's apocalyptic midterm elections, Pope Leo XIV's Latin America tour also augurs the demise of Trump's hemispheric Donroe Doctrine.

The Centre D’Accueil-Bedrock, a welcome center for Haitian immigrants who have been deported from the United States, has offers temporary refuge and support in the coastal Haitian city of Cap-Haïtien.

Opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela, asserting that the country is moving toward presidential elections in 2027. On Thursday, she denied any contact with interim president Delcy Rodríguez. Machado, who won the opposition's presidential primary, was barred from the ballot by ruling party loyalists. She supported Edmundo González, whom the U.S. recognized as the winner, while former President Nicolás Maduro declared himself victorious.

Former Mexican presidential candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas has died at 92. He was one of the country's most important modern political voices. An undisputed leader of the Mexican left, Cárdenas was the son of one of the country's most popular presidents — Gen. Lázaro Cárdenas.

A new report has found that nearly six million people in Haiti are experiencing severe hunger, with almost two million facing emergency conditions. The worsening crisis in the country of nearly 12 million is blamed on a surge in gang violence and displacement, combined with high food and fuel prices and an extreme El Niño weather phenomenon.

Flávio Bolsonaro is now in Miami after fleeing to the U.S. following his defeat to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil's presidential elections. Bolsonaro has refused to concede and claims electoral fraud without evidence. In a letter, he says he relocated due to political persecution.

The vote on Wednesday was 130-17, with 25 abstentions. The vote last year was 165-7, with 12 abstentions. Western countries like Germany, Italy and Latvia are among those that abstained for the first time in 34 years.

COMMENTARY Now that defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro is in Florida, fleeing investigations, his legions of fans here should recall how his father damaged their image in 2023.