BOGOTA, July 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Colombia has put a patch of banana crops in the north of the country under quarantine on suspicion they are infested with a fungus that is seen as potentially devastating to the country’s banana exports, the agriculture minister said. The fusarium R4T fungus causes a…

WASHINGTON, July 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Immigrant families and their defenders were on standby for mass deportation arrests across the United States threatened by President Donald Trump, but by early Sunday afternoon there were no signs of a nationwide operation. Trump said on Friday that a wave of arrests of immigrants…

GUATEMALA CITY, July 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, who is under pressure at home not to seal a migration deal with the United States, called off White House talks with Pres Donald Trump with just a day to spare, his office announced. The meeting scheduled for Monday in…

CARACAS, July 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Venezuela’s opposition said it will return to Barbados to continue talks with the government of President Nicolas Maduro as part of efforts to resolve the South American nation’s political crisis. The two sides met in the Caribbean island last week as part of talks being…

MEXICO CITY, July 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexican authorities extradited an alleged drug trafficker to the United States for him to be tried by a federal court, the Attorney General’s Office said. Jesus Navarrete Castelan, an alleged leader of the “Los Rojos” drug cartel, will be tried over accusations of criminal association and crimes against public…