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This handout photo released by the US Department of Homeland Security shows federal officials boarding detained migrants onto a flight to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, from an undisclosed location in the United States

World

Handcuffs and beach clean-ups: a Cuban migrant’s seven months in Guantanamo Bay

Yeilis Torres, a 38-year-old Cuban woman, knows all too well the loneliness and anguish facing the migrants flown by the United States this week...

AFP4 days ago

Mexican avocado shipments are worth more than $3 billion a year

Business

Despite Trump, Mexico avocado farmers see no end of Super Bowl demand

Despite Donald Trump’s tariff threats, Mexican farmers working flat out to meet Super Bowl fans’ appetite for guacamole believe that, as long as they...

AFP4 days ago

Members of Mexico's National Guard patrol near the border with the United States in Tijuana, just south of California

World

Mexican troop deployment met with skepticism on US border

Mexican armed troops guard the fence snaking along the US border as part of a deal with President Donald Trump, who delayed tariffs on...

AFP5 days ago

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio waves as he boards a plane bound to Guatemala at Juan Santamaria International Airport near San Jose, Costa Rica on February 4, 2025.

World

Rubio accuses Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela over migration crisis

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday lashed out at authoritarian left-wing regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, accusing them of being “enemies...

AFPFebruary 4, 2025

Mexican auto-parts makers say they exported $36 billion in goods to the US in 2023

Business

Mexican farmers, auto-parts makers urge dialogue with US

Mexican agricultural and auto-parts producers called Sunday for “dialogue” to head off the trade war prompted by US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose...

AFPFebruary 2, 2025

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is serving a third six-year term widely considered as illegitimate after flawed elections

World

Has Trump changed tack on Venezuela?

Within his first two weeks in office, US President Donald Trump sent an emissary to arch-rival Venezuela, an apparent about-turn from the hard-line approach...

AFPFebruary 1, 2025

Liset Fonseca's son Roberto Perez Fonseca is in prison in Cuba for participating in protests in 2021

World

‘Uncertainty never ends’ as deal to free Cuba prisoners unravels under Trump

Just two weeks ago, Cubans celebrated the anticipated release of jailed protesters in a deal struck under US then-president Joe Biden. Now hope is...

AFPJanuary 29, 2025

Migrants deported from the US arrive at El Dorado International airport in Bogota after a blazing row between Colombia and President Donald Trump over migrant deportations

World

Scalded by Colombia row, Latin America treads carefully with Trump

Latin American leaders have canceled a summit to discuss Donald Trump’s migrant crackdown, as the region weighs the risks of openly confronting the firebrand...

AFPJanuary 29, 2025