On September 2, 2025, the United States attacked a Venezuelan ship said to have been carrying drugs. The Associated Press reported that the U.S. has stationed maritime forces off the coast of Venezuela, with the goal of combating Latin American drug cartels. The U.S. government has not indicated any plan of land invasion, though thousands of personnel are deployed.
Read MoreFires raging in Brazil in 2024 destroyed an area larger than that of Italy, with more than 44 million acres burned, according to the Rainforest Foundation. Brazil had a season of wildfires that will go down as one of the worst ever recorded, with a jarring 62,000 individual fires.
Read MoreOn January 29, a regional American Airlines flight out of Wichita, Kansas collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River while attempting to land at Washington’s Reagan National Airport. All 64 aboard the plane and the three soldiers on the helicopter were killed, CNN reports.
Read More“I want Ariel to stand in front of my bullets, so they go through him,” the commander told a cheering group of protesters. “We’re the ones who have the support of the population.”
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Many detractors say his policies towards the central bank and dollarization could take time if carried out since it will require approval from Argentina’s congress and possibly even changing the country’s constitution. Although Milei won a victory in Argentina’s recent presidential election, his political party affiliation, La Libertad Avanza party, is not even the third largest political force in Congress, which could mean difficult negotiations when proposing to implement his policies, BBC reports.
Read MoreAs a Category five hurricane, the storm rapidly intensified on Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Reuters reports that Acapulco has a population of around 900,000 that suffered from Otis’s destruction.
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On February 26 an electoral reform law approved by the ruling party-controlled Congress of Mexico, which has been widely perceived as an attack on democracy, led to tens of thousands of Mexicans protesting against the government, France24 reports
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On February 26, tens of thousands of Mexicans came out in Mexico City to protest the controversial electoral overhaul law passed by Amlo’s party, reports the Associated Press.
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On January 30, twenty members of the U.S. Congress sent a letter to President Joe Biden pleading for him to halt all security assistance toward Peru.
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. The politicians in question, Joseph Lambert and Youri Latortue, are accused by both the U.S. and Canada of enabling, endorsing, and protecting the powerful Haitian gangs that have been terrorizing the region for an extended period.
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