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President Nicol谩s Maduro, now in his 11th year in office, is being challenged by former diplomat Edmundo Gonz谩lez Urrutia at the head of a resurgent opposition, as well as a field of eight other candidates.
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Migrants, police, officials and analysts say President Joe Biden鈥檚 halt on asylum has caused a wait-and-see attitude among migrants who are staying in Brazil. Like anywhere along migrants鈥 routes to new lives, local communities are finding it hard to meet the new populations鈥 needs.
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Ely Malik Reyes, a 26-year-old transgender man, competed for the first time in the male 60/65-kilogram category of sanda. The milestone marked the latest step toward inclusion for LGBTQ people in Cuba.
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Hurricane Beryl ripped off roofs in Jamaica, jumbled fishing boats in Barbados and damaged or destroyed 95% of homes on a pair of islands in St. Vincent and the Grenadines before rumbling toward the Cayman Islands and taking aim at Mexico鈥檚 Caribbean coast with at least seven dead in its wake.
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Two Russian naval ships have docked in the Venezuelan port of La Guaira during exercises in the Atlantic Ocean that Moscow says are to 鈥渟how the flag鈥 in remote, important regions.
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Haiti鈥檚 newly selected prime minister, Garry Conille, met with Democrats on Capitol Hill as well as Biden administration officials, seeking more help to combat the unrest in his country.
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Beryl hit Jamaica as a Category 4 storm and by Thursday afternoon had weakened some but still forged on as a still-powerful Category 2, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
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Jos茅 Ra煤l Mulino has been sworn in as Panama鈥檚 next president, facing pressure to slow migration through the Darien Gap that connects his country with Colombia.
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Children are more than half of the nearly 580,000 people who have become homeless in the last four months, the U.N.'s children agency said.
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Whether the coup attempt was real or not, some Bolivians say they no longer believe what their leader says, and he'd be better served addressing the gasping economy and less time on political stunts.
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Venezuelans have brought their crimes-against-humanity case to a federal court 3,000 miles from home 鈥 in Argentina. They're frustrated by the limits of the laboriously slow International Criminal Court and determined that the security officers who they say killed their loved ones not enjoy absolute impunity.
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The Biden administration's asylum halt that took place June 5 applies took to all nationalities. But Mexicans and those Mexico agrees to take back are most likely to be deported. That includes Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.