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El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele gives a press conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Trump administration in talks to send Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador prisons

The Trump administration says it’s in talks with El Salvador to revive an agreement that could allow the United States to send non-Salvadoran migrants to the Central American country.

Migrants eat lunch at the Peace Oasis of the Holy Spirit Amparito shelter in Villahermosa, Mexico, June 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez, File)

Trump’s foreign aid freeze guts grassroots groups helping migrants in Latin America

Photos of people who disappeared during Peru's internal armed conflict (1980-2000) lie on display at the House of Memory museum in Lima, Peru, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

Takeaways from AP’s reporting on the thousands disappeared in Colombia, Peru and Paraguay

Lidia Flores, the leader of the National Association of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared Persons of Peru, poses for a portrait in Ayacucho, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. Flores' husband was killed in Peru's internal armed conflict (1980-2000). (AP Photo/Silvio La Rosa)

Peru’s disappeared: Dozens look for relatives lost to violence. A woman who knows their sorrow helps

Archbishop of Lima Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne celebrates a Mass, Jan. 18, 2001 in Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Vatican says sanctions still in effect against Opus Dei cardinal following sex abuse allegations

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Strike over privatizing Sao Paulo public transport causes crowds, delays in metro area of 20 million

Miss Nicaragua Sheynnis Palacios participates in the evening gown category during the 72nd Miss Universe Beauty Pageant in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. The 23-year-old communicologist went on to win the competition, the first to wear the crown from her country. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Presidential candidate of the Liberty Advances coalition Javier Milei speaks to supporters outside his campaign headquarters after winning the runoff election in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

The lion, the wig and the warrior. Who is Javier Milei, Argentina’s president-elect?

FILE - Former first lady Rosalynn Carter arrives with her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, left, for an annual Carter Town Hall held at Emory University, Sept. 18, 2019, in Atlanta. Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, died Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. She was 96. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

Rosalynn Carter, outspoken former first lady, dies at 96

Caimans sit on the banks of the almost dried-up Bento Gomes River in the Pantanal wetlands near Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. Amid the high heat, wildfires are burning widely in the Pantanal biome, the world's largest tropical wetlands. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

FILE - A Diageo employee walks by barrels of whiskey stored in a new warehouse at the George Dickel distillery near Tullahoma, Tenn. on Aug. 14, 2014. Spirits and beer giant Diageo saw billions wiped off its market value on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023 after it warned that a sharp slowdown in its business in Latin America and the Caribbean was hitting sales and potential profits. In early trading in London, the company’s share price was down by 14% after it told investors that it expects growth in the first half of the current financial year to be slower than the previous half-year (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, File)

Drinks giant Diageo sees share price slide after warning about sales in Caribbean and Latin America

Taylor Swift performs at the Monumental stadium during her Eras Tour concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. Thousands of "Swifties" attended the superstar’s first-ever concert in Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Argentine Boca Juniors fans gather on Copacabana beach the day before their team faces Brazil's Fluminense at the Copa Libertadores championship match in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Tensions spike in Rio de Janeiro ahead of Copa Libertadores soccer final and after Copacabana brawl

Florida state Sen. Lauren Book and her six-year-old son Hudson look at a phone app which provides real-time rocket alerts to Israeli citizens, Oct. 24, 2023, in Plantation, Fla. Book follows the alerts to stay informed and help her children understand what is happening. "I don't want to forget. I don't want my children to ever forget. I don't want my community to forget." (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war is a political test in South Florida’s Jewish community

Birds fly over debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

President Joe Biden meets with Dominican Republic's President Luis Abinader in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Biden administration pushes for more US-Latin America trade, seeking to lessen Chinese influence

Former presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich, who placed third in the previous weekend's elections, gives a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

Argentina’s third-place presidential candidate Bullrich endorses right-wing populist Milei in runoff

Supporters of Sergio Massa, Economy Minister and presidential candidate for the ruling party, gather outside his campaign headquarters after polls closed for general elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. Massa held the lead in early results and is poised to face off anti-establishment candidate Javier Milei in a second round on Nov. 19. (AP Photo/Mario De Fina)

After presidential race surprise, Argentine economy minister and right-wing populist look to runoff

Sergio Massa, Economy Minister and presidential candidate for the ruling party, speaks to supporters at his campaign headquarters after general elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. Massa held the lead in early results and is poised to face off Javier Milei in a second round Nov. 19. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

Economy minister surprises by beating populist in first round of Argentina’s presidential election

Presidential candidate of the Liberty Advances coalition Javier Milei talks to supporters during a campaign rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. General elections are set for Oct. 22. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Presidential candidate of the Liberty Advances coalition Javier Milei waves to supporters during a campaign rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. General elections are set for Oct. 22. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Desperate and disaffected, Argentines to vote whether upstart Milei leads them into the unknown

A firefighter is silhouetted by the flames of a forest fire on the outskirts of Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Nicolas Aguilera)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

FILE - Homes and other structures are seen in Monument Valley, Ariz., on the Navajo reservation, April 19, 2020. Monument Valley and various other parks on the Navajo Nation will be closed Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, due to the "Ring of Fire" solar eclipse. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

In many Indigenous cultures, a solar eclipse is more than a spectacle. It’s for honoring tradition

New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrives in Necocli, northern Colombia, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. Adams has capped off a four-day trip to Latin America with a visit to the city where thousands of migrants start the trek across the Darien jungle, as they head to the United States. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

New York City mayor wraps up Latin America trip with call for ‘right to work’ for migrants in US

A woman with the number 68 painted on her face participates in a march in remembrance of the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico City, Monday, Oct. 2. 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

FILE - New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks in New York's Times Square during a news conference, Dec. 30, 2022. On Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, Adams said he will travel to Latin America to discourage people from seeking asylum in the city as it struggles to handle a massive influx of migrants that have overwhelmed its shelter system and strained financial resources. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

New York City mayor heads to Latin America with message for asylum seekers: ‘We are at capacity’

The new Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Amy Pope speaks, during a press conference, at the European headquarters of the United Nation in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. Pope is the first woman to hold this role. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

New UN migration chief says private sector ‘desperate’ to take migrants despite negative narrative

FILE - People line up against a border wall as they wait to apply for asylum after crossing the border from Mexico. Tuesday, July 11, 2023, near Yuma, Ariz. As the number of migrants coming to the U.S.'s southern border is climbing, the Biden administration aims to admit more refugees from Latin America and the Caribbean over the next year. The White House Friday, Sept. 29, released the targets for how many refugees it aims to admit over the next fiscal year starting October 1 and from what regions of the world. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

More refugees to come from Latin America, Caribbean under Biden’s new 125,000 refugee cap

FILE - Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during a rally marking his fifth anniversary in office, at the Zocalo in Mexico City on July 1, 2023. Mexico’s armed forces sent troops, vehicle convoys and helicopters into remote towns near the southern border with Guatemala on Wednesday, Sept. 27, after drug cartels blocked roads and cut off electricity in some areas over the weekend. Lopez Obrador acknowledged Monday that the cartels have cut off electricity in some towns and forbidden government workers from coming in to the largely rural area to fix the power lines. (AP Photo/Aurea Del Rosario, File)

Mexico’s president slams US aid for Ukraine and sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba

A plane drops water on a fire in the Serra do Coco forest area in Riachao das Neves, Bahia state, Brazil, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. According to the National Center for Prevention and Combat of Forest Fires, the fires are being fanned by strong winds, high temperatures and dry weather. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

A woman participates in an abortion-rights demonstration during the Day for Decriminalization of Abortion, in Mexico City, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexa Herrera)

Thousands of women march in Latin American cities calling for abortion rights

Chilean police carry puppies that will be trained as police dogs during a military parade on Army Day, and Independence Day, in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

FILE - A "#UNGA" sign is on display at United Nations headquarters, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Anthony, File)

Everything you need to know about this year’s meeting of leaders at the UN General Assembly

An Indigenous model wears a creation from Indigenous designers during a fashion event, as part of the Third March of Indigenous Women, to claim women's rights and the demarcation of Indigenous lands, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

FILE - The U.S. Treasury Department building at dusk in Washington, June 6, 2019. The United States has slapped terrorism sanctions on a family network of seven individuals and businesses in Lebanon and South America accused of financing the militant group Hezbollah, including a Lebanese man who officials say was involved in two deadly attacks in Argentina in the 1990s. The sanctions were announced Tuesday by the U.S. Treasury Department. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

US sanctions Lebanon-South America network accused of financing Hezbollah