Latin America

A new initiative in Cuba is transforming shipping containers into homes to combat Cuba’s housing crisis. The containers are being repurposed to include two bedrooms, a kitchen, bathrooms and patios. Delilah Díaz Fernández, housing director general at Cuba’s Ministry of Construction, said that more than 2,000 containers destined to become …

Lawmakers who back the measure say it is key to restoring normality after four weeks of road blocks. BBC News

The Chilean nationals were arrested in Argentina on suspicion of targeting stars including Travis Kelce. BBC News

While Injuba is not one of the prisons where most political prisoners are usually kept, Venezuela’s Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners expressed its solidarity with the inmates there, alleging that “punishment, hunger, solitary confinement, torture and inhumane conditions” were being used to control and subdue prisoners and “formed …

It comes after the US charged Cuba’s ex-leader with murder, the latest move putting pressure on the regime. BBC News

Speaking at Freedom Tower in Miami, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the US would also charge Castro with destruction of aircraft, and four individual counts of murder over the deaths of Armando Alejandre Jr, Carlos Alberto Costa, Mario Manuel de la Peña, and Pablo Morales. BBC News

Mark Cancian, a retired US Marine Corps colonel and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told BBC Verify the recurrent flight paths of the surveillance aircraft “indicate an intention to spot ship arrivals from the south, primarily, and secondarily from the north”. BBC News

Satellite images reveal how a joint mission shipped uranium from Venezuela to the US. BBC News

The BBC’s Will Grant sat down with former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by US President Donald Trump in December. In March 2024, Hernández was convicted of drug trafficking and weapons offences and sentenced to 45 years in prison before Trump granted him a pardon, posting to …

Trump’s interest in Honduras, and who runs it, can be explained by his administration’s wider considerations in the Western Hemisphere, specifically the self-dubbed “Donroe Doctrine”, under which Washington views the Americas as its sphere of influence. BBC News

Havana’s foreign minister says a report that it has acquired attack drones is part of justification for US “aggression”. BBC News

Could Ushuaia be ground zero for the hantavirus outbreak on the Dutch vessel MV Hondius? BBC News

Parents were angry at a proposal to end classes on 5 June instead of 15 July due to the tournament and expected extreme heat. BBC News

Might extreme heat, wildfires and thunderstorms threaten matches at the tournament? BBC News

The National Ministry of Health, meanwhile, has not put forward a definitive theory. “We cannot rule out, in principle, that the infections occurred in Tierra del Fuego, but there is an important fact to consider: since Hantavirus became a notifiable disease, no cases have ever been reported in the province,” …

The explosion is the latest accident in the locality of Sutatausa, the site of another deadly mine disaster in 2023. BBC News

At least 38 people were injured when the vehicle ploughed into the crowd at a show in Colombia. BBC News

Shakira performed her greatest hits to a vast crowd at a free concert on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night. About two million people came to watch the Colombian pop-star perform, according to a social media post by Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Cavaliere. However, BBC Verify …

The loss of tropical rainforests eased last year, according to new analysis, but scientists warn they are still disappearing rapidly. BBC News

Anant Ambani – son of Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani – says he can take care of the animals roaming free since the drug lord’s death. BBC News