Tensions are running high in Port-au-Prince Tuesday, one day before a protest march is called in reaction to a burgeoning Petrocaribe corruption scandal that embroils members of Haiti's government.
Survivors sifting through the rubble of their earthquake-toppled cinderblock homes in northern Haiti on October 7, 2018 were rattled by a magnitude 5.2 aftershock that threatened to raise the death toll of 12 even further.
Leaders of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, talked to supporters on Wednesday in New York, but Cuban officials denied entry to accredited press from the US and Europe.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro landed in New York City Wednesday to attend the United Nations General Assembly, according to a brief video he posted on Twitter.
Speaking at the United Nations ahead of the General Assembly on September 26, 218, President Trump said all U.S. options are on the table to help end the political, economic and humanitarian chaos in Venezuela.
Chef José Andrés talks about U.S. response in Puerto Rico days after Hurricane Maria devastated the island during a conversation with Republican commentator Ana Navarro at Miami Dade College on September 24, 2018.
Venezuelans are fleeing their country to find food and medicines no longer available to them at home, as seen in this footage released by the World Food Programme on September 24.
The UN said nearly half a million people fled to Ecuador in 2018.
A year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico the island remains in a state of recovery. The official death toll now stands at 2,975, making Maria one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history. Narration by Rita Moreno.
