• TikTok Banned on All Canadian Government Mobile Devices
  
  - Canada announced Monday it is banning TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices, reflecting widening worries from Western officials over the Chinese-owned video sharing app.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it might be a first step to further action. "I suspect...
• Mexican President Disparages Pro-democracy Demonstrators
  
  Mexico's president lashed out Monday at demonstrators who protested cuts to election funding over the weekend, belittling their concerns about threats to democracy and dashing any hopes that he would try to ease rising political tensions.President Andrés Manuel López...
• Tens of Thousands Protest Mexico Electoral Reforms
  
  - Tens of thousands of people filled Mexico City's vast main plaza Sunday to protest electoral law reforms that they say threaten democracy. The plaza is normally thought to hold nearly 100,000 people, but many more protesters couldn't fit in.The marchers were clad mostly...
• Fleeing Nicaraguans a Boon to Economy Back Home
  
  - Each month, Antón Martínez, 38, sets aside $200 from his wages as a dishwasher in the United States to send home to his mother in Nicaragua.Martínez wishes it could be more, but he's still trying to find his footing in the new country and pay off the debt of his...
• Mexican States in Hot Competition over Possible Tesla Plant
  
  - Mexico is undergoing a fevered competition among states to win a potential Tesla facility in jostling reminiscent of what happens among U.S. cities and states vying to win investments from tech companies. Mexican governors have gone to loopy extremes, like putting up...
• Mexico President Foresees Court Challenges to Electoral Law
  
  - Mexico's president said Thursday he expects court challenges to a new law that will cut money for thousands of staffers at the country's electoral agency and weaken oversight of campaign spending. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has long criticized the agency...
• Pregnant Russians Flock to Argentina Seeking New Passports
  
  - Shortly after Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Alla Prigolovkina and her husband, Andrei Ushakov, decided they had to flee their Sochi, Russia, home.Ushakov had been detained for holding up a sign that read "Peace," and Prigolovkina, a pregnant ski...
• Mexico's Senate Approves Controversial Electoral Reform
  
  - Mexico's Senate on Wednesday approved a reform of the country's electoral institute, a move that opponents say will undercut democracy but which the president contends will save money and reduce political privileges.Lawmakers voted 72-50 in favor of the controversial...
• Google Tests Blocking News Content for Some Canadians
  
  - Google is blocking some Canadian users from viewing news content in what the company said Wednesday is a test run of a potential response to a Canadian government's online news bill. Bill C-18, the Online News Act, would require digital giants such as Google and Meta,...
• Brazil Floods Leave Cutoff Survivors Scrambling for Supplies
  
  - Hundreds of residents of a rain-battered region in Brazil's Sao Paulo state were scrambling to find water and daily supplies Wednesday after floods and mudslides cut off their communities and left at least 48 people dead.Government and private aid groups were trying to...
• US Sanctions Mexican Drug Precursor Suppliers
  
  - The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions Wednesday on six members of a Mexican ring accused of supplying massive amounts of precursor chemical used to make deadly fentanyl and methamphetamines. The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control blocked any U.S....
• Brazil Deluge Kill 36, Search Continues for Dozens Missing
  
  - Hundreds of rescuers searched Monday for survivors of landslides and flooding that killed at least 36 people along the coast of Brazil's southern state of Sao Paulo following a huge weekend downpour.Worst hit was the city of Sao Sebastiao, where at least 35 were dead. In...
• Heavy Rains Leave 36 Dead in Brazil, Cities Cancel Carnival
  
  - Heavy rain caused flooding and landslides that have have killed 36 people in Brazil's north Sao Paulo state, officials said Sunday, and the fatalities could rise.Sao Paulo state government said in a statement that 35 died in the city of Sao Sebastiao and a 7-year-old girl...
• Mexican Musician Finds Refuge in Saxophone after Acid Attack
  
  - María Elena Ríos has conflicting feelings about her saxophone: She once blamed the instrument for bringing her to the brink of death - but it also has been her salvation.Ríos, 29, thought her career as a musician and her devotion to her saxophone was what led her former...
• Dogs in Costumes Take over at Rio Carnival Street Party
  
  - As Rio de Janeiro kicked off its Carnival on Saturday, about 100 dogs barked and wagged their tails to the tune of samba music as they paraded in front of pet lovers in a canine costume competition.The "Blocao" - a mixture of "bloco" which refers to Carnival street...
• From a Secret Safehouse, Peru's Indigenous Revolt Advances
  
  - In an industrial corridor of Peru's capital, a dingy stairwell leads to a second-floor safehouse. Dozens of Quechua and Aymara activists lie on mattresses strewn on the floor, resting up for more anti-government demonstrations as volunteers cook a breakfast of donated...
• Judge: Canada Right to Invoke Emergency Act in Truck Protest
  
  - A public commission announced Friday that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government met the "very high threshold" for invoking the Emergencies Act to quell the protests by truckers and others angry over Canada's COVID-19 restrictions last winter. For weeks,...
• Presidents of Colombia, Venezuela Sign Trade Deal on Border
  
  - The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela met on their border Thursday to sign an agreement designed to improve trade between the two countries and lift import duties on dozens of manufactured goods. The deal comes as relations between the two countries improve following...
• Nicaragua Strips Citizenship from 94 Political Opponents
  
  - Nicaragua cancelled the citizenship of 94 political opponents Wednesday, including writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli. Appeals Court Justice Ernesto Rodríguez Mejía read a statement that declared the 94 people to be "traitors" and said they had lost their...
• Japanese Company Opens First Auto Parts Plant in Guatemala
  
  - A Japanese company opened the first auto parts plant in Guatemala on Wednesday as part of an effort to boost the region's economy and curb outmigration. The plant is run by Yazaki North America, Inc. and makes automotive wiring harnesses. The $10 million plant was opened...
• Hit by Pandemic, Small Mexican Airline Aeromar Shuts Down
  
  - The small Mexican airline Aeromar announced Wednesday it is closing down due to financial problems after failing to recover from a pandemic downturn.The regional carrier operated 21 routes in Mexico and flew to McAllen and Laredo in Texas and Havana, Cuba. It specialized...
• Bolivian Hospitals under Strain as Dengue Kills Dozens
  
  - Hospitals in Bolivia's eastern Santa Cruz region struggled Wednesday to keep up with an outbreak of dengue that has killed at least 26 people.It marks the largest outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease since the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the almost 7,000 cases detected...
• Nicaragua's Vote to Strip Opponents of Citizenship
  
  - Last week Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega packed off 222 political leaders, priests, students, activists and other dissidents to the United States, their release long demanded by the international community.Shortly after, Ortega's government voted to strip the former...
• Experts Found Chilean Poet Neruda Was Poisoned, Nephew Says
  
  - Forensic experts have determined that Chilean poet Pablo Neruda died of poisoning nearly 50 years ago, a family member of the Nobel Prize winner said Monday.The revelation by Rodolfo Reyes, a Neruda nephew, is the latest turn in one of the great debates of post-coup...
• Mexico Softens Plan to Ban Imports of US GM Feed Corn
  
  - Mexico appeared to have backed down Monday on plans to ban imports of U.S. genetically modified corn for animal feed. Mexico's Economy Department said a new decree on the issue was published Monday that drops any date for substituting imports of GM feed corn. Some...

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