Latin America

Islands at the eastern end of the Caribbean Sea made preparations Sunday for approaching Hurricane Irma, which could threaten the area Tuesday.

Lilian Tintori said that her passport was seized and she was barred from leaving Venezuela for planned meetings with leaders of France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.

The State Department said Friday that 19 American officials at the U.S. Embassy in Havana have been affected by sonic harassment attacks with the union representing the diplomats saying symptoms include mild traumatic brain injury, hearing loss and other symptoms.

Tropical storm Lidia moved across Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, where it caused flooding and damage to roads and homes in the tourism resort of Los Cabos and left at least three people dead.

Brazil’s economy posted a second consecutive quarter of growth on the back of a rebound in consumer spending, reinforcing hopes for a recovery from the recession.

Tropical storm Lidia on Thursday reached Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, bringing heavy rain and strong winds to the tourism resort of Los Cabos.

Five months of violent antigovernment protests have dissipated and President Nicolás Maduro seemingly faces few short-term dangers to his rule.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leftist front-runner in Mexico’s 2018 election, said the renegotiations should be suspended until after the election and warned he would renegotiate any deal that harms Mexico’s interests if he wins the vote.

Guatemala’s highest court ruled that President Jimmy Morales can't expel the head of a United Nations anticorruption commission from the country.

Mexico has reaped big trade benefits from Nafta, but wages for its millions of workers remain stubbornly low, something labor advocates and U.S. and Canadian officials hope to see redressed in renegotiating the 23-year-old pact.

The U.S. government Monday called on Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales to rethink his attempt to expel a United Nations-backed anticorruption prosecutor who is investigating the president and other top politicians for possible breaches of campaign finance laws.

Ricardo Darré has resigned as CEO of Argentina’s state-run oil and gas producer, YPF. His exit comes as YPF transforms into an “integrated energy company.”

Mexico recorded a $1.52 billion trade deficit in July, a shift from the surplus seen the previous month, as growth in exports outpaced the increase in imports.

The commission at the center of Guatemala’s latest political crisis was created 10 years ago to help the country take on criminal networks that had their origin in the country’s decadeslong military dictatorship and civil war.

Guatemala’s political crisis deepened on Sunday as a constitutional court temporarily barred President Jimmy Morales from expelling a United Nations-backed anticorruption prosecutor probing allegations of illegal financing in the president’s 2015 election campaign.

Guatemala’s attorney general and a United Nations-backed prosecutor’s office have asked the country’s Supreme Court to strip President Jimmy Morales of his immunity from prosecution, deepening the country’s political crisis.

Brazilian President Michel Temer, who has avoided a trial over corruption charges, is using the reprieve to push ambitious privatization plans to rekindle economic growth and lower government spending.

At least 16 Americans working at the U.S. Embassy in Havana have experienced hearing loss or other symptoms from some unknown cause that could be deliberate or accidental, the State Department said.

Colombian TV network Caracol has been taken off the air in Venezuela a day after President Nicolás Maduro delivered a scathing rebuke of the neighboring nation’s media.