![More than 100 reporters and other media workers have been murdered since 2000 in Mexico, and only a fraction of those crimes has resulted in convictions [File: Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/4e4b476872af4f0ea22e1298e69d8ad4_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
49-year-old journalist and TV host, Arturo Alba Medina, was assassinated a few minutes after the end of his show.
Latin America
![Brazil's vice president Hamilton Mourao contradicted President Jair Bolsonaro by saying 'the government will not run away' from the vaccine it has invested resources in producing [File: Amanda Perobelli/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-06-25T000000Z_498761739_RC2CGH9GVHS7_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-BRAZIL-VACCINE.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
The vice president’s comments come a week after Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said Brazilians are not ‘guinea pigs’.
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Emergency crews are working to rescue any survivors after heavy rains cause mudslide near the...
!['Whether Trump or Biden wins, we will confront and defeat him,' Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said, leaving little doubt as to his intentions toward whomever finds himself in the Oval Office in January [File: Miraflores Palace/Handout via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/59d7070079e24403a718f95ba2c9e282_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK
What would a Joe Biden presidency mean for Venezuela?
Venezuela is struggling with 2,400 percent inflation and US sanctions under Trump. Would Biden be...
![A parliamentary commission spent months investigating incidents that took place between October and November 2019, which left about 30 dead [File: David Mercado/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-08-06T201816Z_562704127_RC2K8I9XRRCY_RTRMADP_3_BOLIVIA-POLITICS-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The parliament recommends a trial against Jeanine Anez for ‘genocide’ and backs criminal indictment of 11 ministers.
![Bolsonaro has followed US President Donald Trump's policy on coronavirus closely, expressing resistance against lockdowns citing its impact on the economy [Evaristo Sa/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/000_8TX8K7.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Brazil’s right-wing leader also says that he will not pay for the Chinese vaccine under clinical trial in Sao Paulo.
![The latest sanctions are part of a US push to pressure Iran and remove a key source of funding for its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [File: Vahid Salemi/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/AP_20211287643615.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Five days before the US presidential election, the Trump administration has announced a litany of new sanctions.
![More than 3,000 unmarked graves with nearly 5,000 bodies have been found in Mexico since the government deployed the military to fight the country’s powerful drug cartels in 2006 [File: Lenin Ocampo Torres/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/h_51406442-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Acting on a tip, more than 80 state, federal officials dug through 52 sites before making the discovery.
When Maria Figueroa saw fleeing Venezuelans passing by her home in Colombia on foot, she knew she had to do something.
![Domestic workers, many of whom have lost their jobs after the coronavirus outbreak, gather for a protest demanding social security from the government in Bengaluru, India on June 15, 2020 [File: AP/Aijaz Rahi]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AP_20167473573586.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Domestic workers are essential workers and their rights need to be protected.
![The feminist Black Block protesters shout from the rooftop of the National Human Rights Commission building, now the Okupa Cuba Casa Refugio, (Cuba Occupation-Shelter House) in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 16, 2020 [Victoria Razo/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/okupacndh-VR001.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
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Protesters seized Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission building in an effort to end femicide.
![Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claims the alleged terrorist attack toppled a large tower at one of the state's oil refineries [File: Miraflores Palace/Handout via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/59d7070079e24403a718f95ba2c9e282_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Two foreigners were detained prior to the alleged attack on the Amuay Refinery on Venezuela’s northern Caribbean coast.
![Mexico is experiencing its biggest economic slump since the worldwide Great Depression, and the US is a major trading partner, making this year's US presidential election of major consequence to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador [File: Tom Brenner/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-07-08T182615Z_110230760_RC26PH9UMJ2Y_RTRMADP_3_USA-MEXICO.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK
Trump or Biden? Mexico eyes who could boost struggling economy
President Manuel Andres Lopez Obrador has a good relationship with Trump, but a Biden win could bring opportunities.
Chileans have voted to replace a constitution dating from the military dictatorship.
