February 19, 2019 5 to stand trial in Guatemala shelter fire that killed 41 A Guatemalan judge has ordered five current and former officials to stand trial over a blaze that killed 41 girls at a state-run home for troubled youth.
February 19, 2019 Venezuela shutting sea links to Dutch Caribbean amid turmoil A Venezuelan official says the country is banning sea trips to and from three Dutch Caribbean islands — a region that has been linked to efforts to undermine President Nicolas Maduro by sending aid to the South American nation.
February 19, 2019 Mexico closes temporary migrant shelter near US border Officials in the northern Mexico border state of Coahuila say an empty assembly plant used to house about 1,600 Central American migrants during the past two weeks has closed.
February 19, 2019 25 MS-13 gang members deported from migrant caravan in Mexico, officials say At least 25 gang members affiliated with the MS-13 gang were deported from Mexico after they were revealed to be concealed within the caravan of 1,600 Central American migrants just across the U.S. border, immigration officials said Tuesday.
February 19, 2019 Fate of American Citgo executives held in Venezuela up in the air as Maduro’s regime plunges deeper into crisis The fate of six Citgo executives being held in captivity in Venezuela on what their families are describing as trumped-up corruption charges could become more clear Wednesday if a preliminary hearing – which has been postponed a dozen times before – actually takes place.
February 19, 2019 7 children die in Canadian house fire Canadian police say seven children died in an early morning fire that witnesses say engulfed a home in a suburb of the Atlantic coast city of Halifax.
February 19, 2019 Sell Montana to Canada for $1 trillion to ease US national debt, petition says Sell Montana to Canada to help pay off some of the national debt, a petition on Change.org called for.
February 19, 2019 Mexican businesswoman decapitated after ‘family wouldn’t pay’ ransom, reports say A Mexican businesswoman’s decapitated body was discovered last week after she was kidnapped with a note that reportedly said she was killed because her husband “didn’t want to pay” a ransom.
February 19, 2019 UN concerned about some 200 families trapped in IS enclave The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says she is concerned about the condition of some 200 families trapped in the last remaining area held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria.
February 19, 2019 Trump declares 'socialism is dying' amid Venezuela 'catastrophe,' promises 'this will never happen to us' President Donald Trump, speaking in a major foreign policy address in Miami, Fla. to members of the Venezeulan community, declared Monday that the embattled country's "current path toward democracy is irreversible," and issued a stark assessment that "socalism is dying" across the world.