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New deal allowing US to send Venezuelan asylum seekers back to Mexico at southern border sows confusion and frustration.

Venezuelans camp out under a bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

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For many Latin American leaders, US President-elect Joe Biden’s victory represents a return to a more civilised age.

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Anger in Colombia as police kills a man for breaking coronavirus restrictions. Protesters say brutality is systemic.

Archaeologists in Mexico find first Mayan slave ship

Mexican scientists recently identified the vessel as ‘La Union’, believed to have gone down in September 1861.

Mexico cave shows humans lived in the Americas 30,000 years ago

Exciting finds change archaeologists’ idea that humans have only lived in the Americas for 15,000 years.

Mexico gender violence: Victims’ relatives occupy rights office

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is often criticised for downplaying the issue of gender violence.

Mexico wetlands: Conservationists race to protect biodiversity

According to the World Wildlife Fund, more than 85 percent of the world’s wetlands have been lost over the past 40 years.

Mexico president orders probe into soldiers’ deadly shooting

An investigation into an assault by soldiers in the border city of Nuevo Laredo in July that killed 12 people comes amid UN pressure.

Mexico outbreak: Alarming mortality rates among health workers

Why healthcare workers in Mexico say they are dying while trying to save lives as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise.

Stranded Nicaraguan citizens: Hundreds stuck at Panama border

The worsening coronavirus outbreak in Central America means border closures are still being enforced.