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Odelyn Joseph/APThe U.N. migration agency says internal displacement within Haiti has tripled over the last year and now surpasses 1 million people. The situation has been largely caused by gang violence in the Caribbean country. -
Susan Walsh/APPresident Joe Biden has notified Congress of his intent to lift the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, the White House announced, as part of a deal facilitated by the Catholic Church to free political prisoners on the island. Democratic and Republican South Florida lawmakers condemned the decision.
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The government provides HIV medicines free of charge. Yet in one Indigenous territory, cases and deaths are increasing at an alarming rate. -
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a third six-year term after a reelection widely viewed as illegitimate and as his administration grows increasingly brazen in cracking down on its opponents. -
Biden extends time in US for 800,000 Venezuelans, Salvadorans as Trump readies immigration crackdownThe Department of Homeland Security says about 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 200,000 El Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months. Florida is home to nearly 300,000 TPS holders, the largest number in the nation. -
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar are introducing a bipartisan bill to crack down on loopholes that allow oil company revenues to flow to the Venezuela’s authoritarian government led by President Nicolás Maduro. -
President Nicolás Maduro is about to extend his increasingly repressive rule over Venezuela until 2031. Maduro will be sworn in on Friday, despite credible evidence that his opponent won the latest election and following protests against his plan to serve a third six-year term -
This Sunday, a leading Haitian community group will mark 15 years since a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, leaving tens of thousands killed and injured, and displacing millions, in one of the Caribbean nation’s worst natural disasters. -
Aides to Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado say she was detained Thursday, but they've been contradicted by authorities who accuse government opponents of trying to spark an international crisis. -
President elect Trump has announced mass deportation plans for when he takes office on January 20. A report by the American Immigration Council shows Florida is among the top 3 states that will feel the effects. -
In Haiti, gangs have killed hundreds of people and shot journalists at a news conference, exposing the country’s fragility and the government’s failures. -
COMMENTARY Venezuelans shouldn't be surprised if Trump sees more political dividends in cutting an oil-and-deportees deal with Maduro instead of tightening the regime-change screws.
