Tag: Latin America

When asked by reporters Thursday if the "Trump effect" on illegal immigration was waning, Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner Ronald Vitiello said, "there's a little bit of that." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

CBP official warns ‘Trump effect’ on illegal immigration may be fading

Anna Giaritelli · February 1, 2018 6:04 pm

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said President Trump's alleged comments that Haiti, African countries, and possibly El Salvador are "shithole countries" does not represent the man he has come to know. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Rand Paul: Accusations that Trump is racist ‘don’t fit with the president that I know’

Anna Giaritelli · January 15, 2018 2:53 pm

The Department of Homeland Security granted temporary protected status to Salvadorans following two earthquakes that devastated the Central American country in 2001. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Trump administration cuts El Salvador’s temporary protected status for 200,000 recipients

Anna Giaritelli · January 8, 2018 3:41 pm

This photo released by Costa Rica's Public Safety Ministry shows smoke rising from the site of a plane crash in Punta Islita, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017. A government statement says there were 10 foreigners and two Costa Rican crew members aboard the plane belonging to Nature Air, which had taken off nearby. (Costa Rica's Public Safety Ministry via AP)

10 US citizens, 2 locals killed in Costa Rica plane crash

Associated Press · January 1, 2018 2:55 am

"The place that I love so much -- and I'm gonna work really hard until she's completely built to 21st century standards, but I can't do them both." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Luis Gutierrez retiring from Congress to help Puerto Rico rebuild

Anna Giaritelli · November 28, 2017 7:28 pm

President Trump hit out at Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and the Venezuelan regime. In his speech to the U.N. on Tuesday, Trump said all countries must confront the crisis in Venezuela. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Trump: Venezuela in crisis because ‘socialism has been faithfully implemented’

Kyle Feldscher · September 19, 2017 2:54 pm

The usage of smugglers has also increased despite the significant cost uptick. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

DHS: Cost of smuggling people to the US has more than doubled to $9,200

Anna Giaritelli · September 18, 2017 4:40 pm

A new survey found 93 percent of Mexicans have "no confidence" in President Trump and only 5 percent do. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Mexicans detest Trump: 93 percent have ‘no confidence’ in US president

Anna Giaritelli · September 14, 2017 2:00 pm

Second lady Karen Pence will visit with art therapists during her trip to Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Panama next week, the White House announced. (Zurab Kurtsikidze/Pool Photo via AP)

Karen Pence to meet with art therapists in Central and South America

Anna Giaritelli · August 11, 2017 2:27 pm

Ninety-three percent of Venezuelans do not have sufficient money to cover their food expenses. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Yield-starved investors pounce on Nicolas Maduro’s hunger bonds

Itziar Aguirre · August 8, 2017 4:01 am

7.2 million people flocked to the polls to reject the government's attempt to turn Venezuela into a second Cuba. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

The beginning of the end for Maduro’s Venezuela?

Alvaro Vargas Llosa · July 29, 2017 4:01 am

The opposition in Venezuela had found no other way than to create a parallel legal structure to confront the most powerful government in one of the soon-to-be one of the poorest countries on the continent. Venezuela faces not only starvation but one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world, with a growing refugee population seeking protection mainly in the United States, Colombia, and Brazil. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela nears the road’s end between populism and dictatorship

Jose Mauricio Gaona · July 29, 2017 4:01 am