Latin America

Rescue teams continued on Wednesday looking for people trapped in their houses by flood waters from two back-to-back hurricanes. In Nicaragua, a landslide buried 12 people, of whom only four were rescued. (Leer en español)

Iota's vast expanse of tropical storm force winds extending 175-miles from its center means that it will affect most of Nicaragua and Honduras, two countries with a vulnerable topography of mountains and rivers and terrain already saturated by the passage of Eta two weeks ago.

Many people who lost their homes to Hurricane Eta are seeking higher ground and shelters run by churches and non-profits. (Leer en español)

Hurricane Eta struck the coast on Nicaragua and Honduras as a Category 4 hurricane leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless. That comes on top of an economic recession due to the pandemic. Now experts fear they feel obliged to leave the country. (Leer en español)

An environmental conflict marked by violence is raging in Guapinol, Honduras, where local inhabitants resist an iron oxide mine in a national park. This cross-border journalism alliance* has uncovered that Nucor Corporation, the chief steel producer in the United States, was a powerful hidden partner behind the mining project. Lea esta historia en español
*Gerardo Reyes, head of investigations at Univision, and Maria Teresa Ronderos, director of the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP), contributed to this article.

Venezuela has received 3 new shipments of gasoline from Iran, but experts say it's not sustainable as the South American nation is running out of cash. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, but in recent weeks it was forced to close gas stations across the country due to shortages.

If 10% of the billions of dollars stolen by crooked businessmen and officials were to be returned, it would exceed the total amount of humanitarian assistance provided by the international community to Venezuelan, according to a report by the Inter-American Dialogue.

The massacre of the Jesuit priests is one of the most high-profile religious crimes in recent Latin American history and drew global attention to the civil war in El Salvador, as well as U.S. support for the country’ military.

There have been dozens of armed attacks by pirates in the southern Gulf of Mexico, primarily on offshore oil rigs and vessels. Videos and audios of the attacks have begun to appear on social media and the Mexican Navy does not appear to have the resources to stop them. (Leer en español)

The Trump administration is intensifying its campaign of maximum pressure on the Maduro regime, cutting off its oil revenues, but has yet to find a winning formula for regime change. (Leer es español)