Tag: Latin America and Caribbean
Suburban Chicago woman gets 6.5 years for labor trafficking
<p>CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago woman was sentenced Tuesday to six and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to charges alleging she...
First schools reopen in Mexico in southern state of Campeche
MEXICO CITY — For the first time in a year, Mexican school children returned to classrooms Monday — at least in the southern state...
Climate change creates migrants. Biden considers protections
<p>SAN DIEGO — Ioane Teitiota and his wife fought for years to stay in New Zealand as refugees, arguing that rising sea levels caused...
Suburban Chicago woman gets 6.5 years for labor trafficking
CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago woman was sentenced Tuesday to six and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to charges alleging she...
UN seeks $29M for St. Vincent amid new volcanic threats
<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The United Nations announced Tuesday that it is seeking $29.2 million to help St. Vincent recover from ongoing volcanic...
Climate change creates migrants. Biden considers protections
SAN DIEGO — Ioane Teitiota and his wife fought for years to stay in New Zealand as refugees, arguing that rising sea levels caused...
Wealthy Latin Americans flock to US in search of vaccines
<p>MONTERREY, Mexico — They travel thousands of miles by plane from Latin America to the U.S., in some places taking a shuttle directly from...
UN seeks $29M for St. Vincent amid new volcanic threats
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The United Nations announced Tuesday that it is seeking $29.2 million to help St. Vincent recover from ongoing volcanic...
Russian shot at border pleads guilty to illegal re-entry
<p>PHOENIX — A Russian immigrant who once staged a monthlong hunger strike at an Arizona detention center and was shot several months later during...
Wealthy Latin Americans flock to US in search of vaccines
MONTERREY, Mexico — They travel thousands of miles by plane from Latin America to the U.S., in some places taking a shuttle directly from...