Reuters

(Reuters) - Panama will launch deportation flights for irregular migrants in the coming weeks, part of a deal with the United States, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, after the new president in the Central American country pledged to bolster its borders.

Panama to launch migrant deportation flights in coming weeks, US says

The Independent

Anywhere else in South America, a nondescript house with buckets of coca leaves soaking in liquid could be mistaken for a clandestine cocaine lab.But this is La Paz, Bolivia, and the fruity aroma of coca steeping in barrels signals that you've arrived at the government-authorized El Viejo Roble distillery, which for years has been making liquor from coca leaves and is now gearing up to launch a new coca-infused beer.It remains questionable whether Bolivia can persuade the world to accept the hardy green leaf best known beyond its borders as the main ingredient of cocaine. But a recent landmark decision...

Beer made from the cocaine plant is creating a buzz in Bolivia. Will the rest of the world buy it?

Latin Times

The arrest of Larry Álvarez Nuñez, a co-founder and principal leader of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in Colombia, marks the most significant blow to its leadership since its conception, according to an analysis by InSight Crime. On July 1, the Colombian National Police captured Álvarez, also known...

Key leader of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua arrested in Colombia

Echoes of U.S. Border Policies Impact Ecuador, Restricting Chinese Migrants. Editor’s note: This article is published in partnership with the Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom, convener and funder whose mission is to provide high-quality news and information about the U.S.-Mexico border. Alfredo Corchado is executive editor and correspondent for the collaborative.

Border Restrictions Advance in Latin America

The Guardian

On the final leg of his Amazon adventure, our writer arrives in Brazil, where he looks at efforts to revive tribal cultures and to protect wildlife in the world’s most fascinating environmental battleground

To the end of the Amazon in Brazil: ‘there are forms of life here that I never knew existed’

TIME

The U.S. Department of Agriculture notified the Avocado Exporting Producers and Packers of Mexico late on June 14

U.S. Suspends Mexico Avocado Shipments

The Associated Press

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo says opposition in the Congress and the Attorney General’s Office have made it difficult to implement the change he seeks for the Central American nation which he found “semi-destroyed” when he took office almost six months ago.

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo says he found a ‘semi-destroyed country’ on taking office

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's company, Grupo Carso SAB, announced this week that it was investing $1.2 billion to develop a vast gas field in the Gulf of Mexico, expected to be produced by 2026. Bloomberg reported that Carso signed a deal with Mexico's state-run Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) to explore and...

Carlos Slim Invests $1.2 Billion to Establish Gulf of Mexico Gas Field

Haiti's gangs say they are gearing up for war as hundreds of police officers from Kenya prepare to deploy in upcoming days. Anticipation is mingling with fear across Haiti as it welcomes the fourth major foreign intervention in its history to fight gang violence choking the Caribbean country.

Gang leaders in Haiti say ready for war as Kenyan police prepare to deploy

 Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the U.N. Security Council Wednesday that recently-deployed Kenyan police will be crucial to helping control the country’s gangs and moving toward democratic elections — and he called feedback from their initial days in the capital “extremely, extremely positive.”He said his government will focus on addressing gang violence and food insecurity, ensuring free elections through constitutional and political reform, and rebuilding public trust in the police.On June 25, the initial contingent of 200 Kenyan police arrived in Port-au-Prince. Kenya has pledged 1,000 police to the international police force and Conille said the next contingent...

Haiti's prime minister says Kenya police is crucial to controlling gangs, calls early days positive

 Ana Ruiz was dismayed seeing migrants from some countries released in the United States with orders to appear in immigration court while she and other Mexicans were deported on a one-hour bus ride to the nearest border crossing.“They're giving priority to other countries,” Ruiz, 35, after a tearful phone call to family in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas at the San Juan Bosco migrant shelter. The shelter's director says it is receiving about 100 deportees a day, more than double what it saw before President Joe Biden issued an executive order that suspends asylum processing at the U.S.-Mexico border...

Biden's asylum halt is falling hardest on Mexicans and other nationalities Mexico will take

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Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

A very large earth crack appeared in Congregación El Carmen in the municipality of Tula, Mexico’s state of Tamaulipas, during heavy rains brought by Tropical Storm “Alberto” from June 19 to 21, 2024. The fissure is still growing and is estimated to be from 1 to...

Massive earth crack appears in Tamaulipas, Mexico

WashingtonExaminer

For 14 years, Jimmy Cherizier wore a badge. Now, toting an automatic rifle through Haiti‘s Capital, Port-au-Prince, he is prepared to lead his coalition of gangs to war. “We are at war,” Cherizier shouted to a crowd of his followers, their identities hidden by ski masks, “any one of us can die.” Known as “Barbecue,” […]

Haiti’s gangland nightmare

CBS Miami

The world's oldest mummies have been around longer than the mummified pharaohs of Egypt and their ornate tombs — but the ravages of time, human development and climate change are putting these relics at risk.Chile's Atacama Desert was once home to the Chincorro people, an ancient population that began mummifying their dead 5,000 years ago, two millennia before the Egyptians did, according to Bernando Arriaza, a professor at the University of Tarapaca. The arid desert has preserved mummified remains and other clues in the environment that give archaeologists information about how the Chincorro people once lived. The idea to mummify bodies likely...

Archaeologists in Chile race to preserve world's oldest mummies

CBS News

Five men, some with their hands tied and heads covered, were found dead Monday on a Mexico road leading to Acapulco, a once-glamorous resort city now engulfed in cartel violence.Prosecutors in the southern state of Guerrero announced the discovery and said a probe had been opened into "aggravated homicide."Local media reported that residents had found the victims, four of whom had their hands tied. The reports said the men had a variety of different injuries.Guerrero is one of Mexico's regions worst-affected by violence linked to drug trafficking. Disputes between cartels led to 1,890 murders in the state in 2023. The...

5 people, some with their hands tied, found dead near Acapulco

Gunmen killed seven people in a house near the Colombian city of Medellin on Tuesday night, police said."At around 07:30 at night, here in the rural area of the municipality of Rionegro, a regrettable incident occurred in which seven people were killed," local police officer Colonel Carlos Andres Martinez Romero said in a statement."Ten people carrying large weapons broke into a house" in the Cabeceras area, around 12 miles from Medellin, Martinez said.Police have offered a reward equivalent to around $12,000 for information leading to the perpetrators.The military deployed a "plan to blockade the municipalities surrounding Cabeceras in order to...

Gunmen "carrying large weapons" kill 7 in house in Colombia

Business Times

Panama has entered into an agreement with the United States to address the ongoing migration crisis through the Darién Gap, a treacherous jungle passage on the border with Colombia.

Panama and U.S. Forge Agreement to Curb Illegal Migration Through Darién Gap

Missouri State

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Fulton, MO

CJ Coombs

Bringing them home: for 40 years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has been helping to locate missing children. Since July 1, 2024, according to the NCMEC, 15 children have been reported missing in the U.S. Not included in that number are those who have been missing in Missouri since June 2024.

Seven teenagers have been missing in Missouri since June 2024

Virginia State

Cheryl E Preston

The weather is heating up, and many Virginians enjoy a soft drink to cool off. If you will be drinking a glass of soda pop at a restaurant, you should know that there has been a recall.

Four soft drinks that are sold in restaurants have been recalled due to the ingredients

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Latin America and Caribbean in Review

This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Latin America and the Caribbean in June. Sissa de la Cruz,...

Latin America and Caribbean in Review

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