© AFP 2023 / ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS Over the weekend, Congress narrowly passed a continuing resolution funding the government for another 45 days, to give more time to debate a series of spending bills that form the 2024 budget...

© AFP 2023 / ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS The former president did not mandate the use of a mask, and even eschewed the mask in some cases: downplaying its effectiveness, refusing to be photographed wearing one, and mocking then-former US Vice President Joe Biden for wearing them...

Hugo Chavez (top left) with other military prisoners after the Bolivarian Revolution in 1992 against Venezuela’s then US-backed dictator...

Members of Panama’s presidential guard pay homage to victims of the 1989 US military invasion during a solemn ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary...

Migrants wait as they hope to receive help from the Mexican government to obtain humanitarian visas to transit Mexican territory, in Tapachula, Mexico, on December 1, 2021...

A boy plays next to a newsstand with a campaign poster showing President-elect Xiomara Castro, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on November 29, 2021...

Members of the Venezuelan government and the opposition meet in Mexico City on August 13, 2021...

People take part in a demonstration to support the government of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Havana, on July 11, 2021...

Prime Minister Ariel Henry waves as he leaves a funeral vigil for President Jovenel Moise at Hotel Roi Christophe, in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, on July 22, 2021...

The file photo shows the Marieval Indian Residential School in Canada...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a news conference January 17, 2020 in Ottawa, Canada...

Venezuelans wait in line to get a COVID-19 test at a testing center in Cucuta, on the Colombian border with Venezuela, on December 28, 2020...

A file photo of the Cuban flag Venezuela and China have censured the United States’ latest anti-Cuba sanctions as illegal coercive measures and an excuse for foreign interference in the small island country...

File photo of a nurse preparing Russia’s Sputnik-V vaccine against the coronavirus disease for inoculation in a post-registration trials stage at a clinic in Moscow...

Riot police stand guard in front of the police headquarters during a protest against police brutality, in Medellin, Colombia, on September 21, 2020...

File photo of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has dismissed as impossible the EU’s suggestion to postpone the country’s December 6 election to meet the bloc’s conditions to dispatch an observer mission, blaming the idea on US pressure...

The president of the Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice, Maikel Jose Moreno, delivers a speech during the inauguration of the new authorities of the National Electoral Council (CNE), in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 12, 2020...

A handout photo released by the Venezuelan Ministry of Popular Power for Communication and Information shows the Iranian-flagged oil tanker Fortune docked at the El Palito refinery after its arrival in Puerto Cabello, in the northern state of Carabobo, Venezuela, on May 25, 2020...

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro greets supporters upon arrival at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, on May 24, 2020...

In this AFP file photo, a prisoner shines a torch from the main detention center in downtown Los Angeles, California, on July 14, 2019...