Brazil’s elections have shifted Congress further right, regardless of who wins the presidential runoff between Flávio Bolsonaro and incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

COMMENTARY The Cuban community is squandering the purposeful good will it should enjoy in Miami by indulging yet again in political ill will — as elections devolve into stunts and attacks related to Cuba.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said Wednesday he had launched a military operation to rescue four Salvadoran aviation technicians kidnapped by gangs in Haiti.

A human rights commission is calling for stronger oversight of technologies used by criminal groups in Latin America. It says satellite internet, drones and online platforms are facilitating illegal mining and other environmental crimes.

Sunday's ambush and apparent abduction of members of a new international police support force underscore the relentless gang violence that has forced yet another postponement of Haiti's desperately needed elections — and the potentially deadly risks Haitian deportees face.

Indigenous leaders from the Amazon are taking their fight against illegal mining, drug trafficking, and deforestation to a United Nations conference in Vienna next week. They want stronger international action against criminal networks threatening their forests and communities.

Cuban authorities report that men captured in February after attempting to enter Cuba by force from the United States have confessed and cooperated with investigators.

Corruption is a major concern for Brazilian voters ahead of the runoff between Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on October 25. Experts say the biggest impact might be on voter turnout rather than candidate choice. Both candidates are linked to corruption, which may increase abstention and anti-incumbency sentiment.

Gangs in Haiti have attacked an armored vehicle, leaving four Salvadoran soldiers unaccounted for. This marks the first major attack since an international gang suppression force began operations. The attack happened Sunday in Croix-des-Bouquets, a gang-controlled area of Port-au-Prince.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is filing state charges against Raúl Castro, he announced in Miami on Monday. Four men died in 1996 when the Cuba's military shot down two planes operated by the Brothers to the Rescue humanitarian group.