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Ismael Francisco/AP/APThe Justice Department is preparing to seek an indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, three people familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press. One of the people said the potential indictment is connected to Castro's alleged role in the 1996 shootdown of planes operated by the Miami exile group. -
Julia Demaree Nikhinson/APCIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Cuban officials including Raúl Castro's grandson during a high-level visit to the island Thursday, Cuban and U.S. officials said.
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COMMENTARY To observe Haitian Flag Day on May 18, the members of Haiti's political and business elite who've sponsored violent gangs could reflect on the possibly irreparable damage they've done. -
"It is clear that the security conditions are not met at the level for us to have elections in August," Fils-Aimé said in an interview broadcast Monday on Magik9 radio in Haiti and reported by Reuters. -
The senator's letter was sent the same day the International Committee of the Red Cross reported that the impact of armed conflict on civilians in Colombia over the past year has been the worst in a decade. -
Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez has arrived in the Netherlands to defend her country’s claim to a mineral- and oil-rich region in western Guyana before the United Nations highest court in a dispute that has spanned decades. -
Their requests came the day ProPublica published its investigation detailing how prosecutors had uncovered a drugs-for-votes scheme being run by a violent gang in Puerto Rican prisons and were deep into looking at whether now-Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón or her campaign were involved. -
A Florida jury has convicted four men of conspiracy in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Prosecutors said South Florida served as a central location for planning and financing the plot to oust Moïse and replace him with someone else. -
Federal prosecutors are seeking to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Manuel Rocha, a former diplomat who served as a secret agent for Cuba. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami filed a civil denaturalization complaint Thursday. -
The officials involved in preliminary discussions with Cuban authorities also told The Associated Press that they are not optimistic the communist government will accept an offer for tens of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid. -
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva plans to discuss organized crime and tariffs with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to Brazil’s finance minister. -
Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to figure out if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise. Argentina is consistently ranked by the World Health Organization as having the highest incidence of the rare, rat-borne disease in Latin America.
