Guatemala City, November 22 (RHC-Telesur)-- In the face of pledges from president-elect Donald Trump to deport up to 3 million undocumented migrants immediately after he takes over the White House in January, the governments of Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and Salvador have joined forces ... More


Havana, November 22 (RHC-Telesur)--At least 365 immigrants drowned in the Mediterranean, from November 15 through the 17th, making the month the most lethal of 2016... More


La Paz, November 22 (RHC/Democracy Now) – Bolivian President Evo Morales has declared a state of emergency as residents of La Paz and other major cities struggle with extreme water shortages amid Bolivia’s worst drought in a quarter-century.... More


Brasilia, November 21 (RHC)-- Trade unions and social movements in Brazil called for new protests as well as a national strike against the neo-liberal agenda of President Michel Temer... More


Paris, November 21 (RHC)-- Hundreds of people took to the streets of central Paris over the weekend to protest the “anti-immigrant speech” of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. ... More


Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach

New York, November 21 (RHC)-- A member of Donald Trump’s transition team, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, says the team is moving ahead with plans to build a wall across the entire length of the U.S.-Mexico border and to reinstate a registry for immigrants from majority-Muslim countries. ... More


New York, November 21 (RHC)-- Students at as many as 100 colleges and universities across the United States have held protests demanding their schools become "sanctuary campuses" ... More


Buenos Aires, November 21 (RHC)-- The president of the human rights groups Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo sent an open letter to Pope Francis to let him know about the situation of "hunger" and “institutional violence” in Argentina. ... More


Erley Monroy Fierro, Director of Ascal-G

Bogota, November 21 (RHC)-- Erley Monroy Fierro, director of Ascal-G, one of the most important campesino associations in the eastern Amazonian region, has been assassinated. ... More


Manila, November 21 (RHC)-- In the Philippines, thousands of protesters gathered to voice their rejection of burying former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the central cemetery in Manila.... More


Ramallah, November 21 (RHC)-- A Palestinian non-governmental organization says Israel is holding nearly 350 minors, among them children as young as 15, in prisons and detention facilities across the occupied territories. ... More


Port-au-Prince, November 21 (RHC)-- With the United Nations recently admitting its peacekeepers were likely responsible for the devastating outbreak of cholera in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake that ravaged the island, the organization has announced it will donate $400 million to Haiti for its fight against the deadly disease. ... More


Geneva, November 19 (RHC)-- The latest figures show the death toll for refugees and asylum seekers attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in flimsy dinghies or unsafe fishing boats to reach Europe has soared to an unprecedented level. ... More


New York, November 19 (RHC)-- U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has chosen Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to be attorney general. Sessions is a former prosecutor who was elected to the Senate in 1996. As a senator, he’s consistently supported anti-immigration legislation. ... More


New York, November 19 (RHC)-- U.S. Vice President-elect Mike Pence was greeted by boos from the audience and an impromptu and impassioned plea from the cast as he attended a performance of the groundbreaking musical "Hamilton" Friday night in New York. ... More


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