SAO PAULO—A crash between a passenger bus and a truck early Saturday killed 37 people on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, officials said. The Minas Gerais fire department, which responded to the scene, said 13 others were taken to hospitals near the city of Teofilo Otoni. The bus had reportedly […]
SAO PAULO—For decades, they have scrounged for food on streets across the country—undesired, abandoned, and overlooked. But today, the caramel-colored mutts of Brazil are having a major moment. The “vira-lata caramelo” (literally: caramel trashcan-tipper) is being exalted in memes, videos, petitions, an upcoming Netflix film, a Carnival parade, and draft legislation to honor it as […]
President-elect Donald Trump said on Dec. 17 that he has nominated former NFL player and Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas. In a statement on Truth Social, the incoming president said he believes Walker, 62, is the ideal candidate for the role because he has “spent decades […]
MEXICO CITY—Gunmen in northern Mexico attacked a police patrol and killed four officers in a shooting that also left four people wounded, authorities said Tuesday. The attack took place Monday in the north-central state of Guanajuato, which has Mexico’s highest number of homicides. It has long been the scene of bloody turf battles between rival […]
MEXICO CITY—The U.S. government deported drug lord Osiel Cardenas on Monday, transferring custody of the ex-Gulf Cartel chief known for hyper-violent tactics to Mexican authorities at the border city of Tijuana. Cardenas, 57, was freed in August after serving more than two decades behind bars in maximum security prisons in the United States, and since […]
RIO DE JANEIRO—A heron took flight in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, stretching its wings and soaring over a river after veterinarians saved it from near-certain death by removing a plastic cup attached to its neck and blocking its throat. The mission to save the bird prompted an outcry in Brazil over the impact of […]
RIO DE JANEIRO—Doctors discharged Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from a Sao Paulo hospital on Sunday, after a pair of emergency surgeries last week to treat and prevent bleeding in his head. The 79-year-old leftist leader also spoke publicly for the first time at a hospital press conference, appearing upbeat wearing a hat […]
SANTIAGO, Chile—A 6.4 magnitude earthquake shook central Chile on Friday but there were no immediate reports of damage and a tsunami was ruled out. The United States Geological Survey said the quake occurred at 7:38 p.m. local time at a depth of 110 kilometers. Its epicenter was 25 miles east-southeast of the town of Molina. […]
MEXICO CITY—A U.S. couple was shot dead in the violence-plagued western Mexican state of Michoacan, state prosecutors said on Thursday, just after the country’s president had wrapped up a meeting with security officials aimed at addressing a wave of violence. Identified as Gloria A., 50, and Rafael C., 53, the couple was traveling in a […]
SAO PAULO—Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had a drain removed from his head on Thursday evening, his doctors said, as he recovers from emergency surgery earlier this week to relieve bleeding in his skull. Lula remains “lucid and speaking normally,” the doctors said in a new medical note, adding the drain was removed […]
On Wednesday of Human Rights Week, the House Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations says the United States needs to do something different with Cuba’s communist regime.
Raymond Robertson, director of the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy at Texas A&M University, discussed with NTD’s Steve Lance U.S. trade relations with Canada and Mexico, how tariffs could affect the flow of fentanyl into the United States, and the future of the USMCA agreement.
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Ronald Johnson, the former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, to serve as ambassador to Mexico in his upcoming administration, he said on Dec. 10. If approved by the U.S. Senate, Johnson will work closely with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who has been tapped by Trump for secretary of state, to […]
MEXICO CITY—A federal congressman was assassinated late on Monday in Mexico’s Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, the latest killing in an outbreak of political violence in the country. The Veracruz attorney general’s office confirmed the death of Benito Aguas, a member of the leftist government’s ruling coalition in the 500-member lower house of Congress, in […]
AUSTIN, Texas—Six Guatemalans were arrested in Guatemala and in Texas Monday on human smuggling charges linked to a 2021 semitrailer truck crash in Mexico that killed more than 50 migrants, authorities said. The truck had been packed with at least 160 migrants, many of them Guatemalans, when it crashed into a support for a pedestrian […]
SAN SALVADOR—A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck some 6 miles south-west of La Union in El Salvador, the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said late on Sunday. Salvadoran civil protection authorities said they had activated emergency protocols for the quake, which was felt as far north as Tegucigalpa, the capital of neighboring Honduras and east into Nicaragua. […]
Many say President-elect Donald Trump’s position on immigration—which includes the mass deportation of illegal immigrants—was the key factor to his victory in the Nov. 5 election. Trump is looking to Texas, which has more than a million illegal immigrants living there, as a model for enforcement. The Texas General Land Office is proposing to build […]
MEXICO CITY—Thirteen children under the age of 14 have died in central Mexico and authorities said Thursday they suspect contaminated IV feeding bags as the culprit. The federal Health Department ordered doctors across the country not to use IV nutrition bags made by the company Productos Hospitalarios S.A de C.V., though the exact source of […]
