The Washington Post - Estados Unidos

In many parts of the world, authorities and experts are fretting over the onset of a coronavirus second wave. Yet in the Americas, there’s still no end in sight to the first. The virus is surging in various U.S. states, and the American death toll has eclipsed 120,000. On Thursday, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the real number of infected Americans is probably 10 times the 2.3 million official count.

19:57 - President Trump backtracked Monday from remarks that had opened the door to a possible meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, whom the Trump administration brands a rapacious dictator and the illegitimate ruler of his country.

20:16 - The Trump administration said Tuesday it will nominate Mauricio Claver-Carone, the current head of Western Hemisphere affairs at the National Security Council, as president of the Inter-American Development Bank, breaking an unwritten agreement since the bank’s inception in 1959 that it would be led by a Latin American.

As Brazil posts some of the highest daily coronavirus death totals in the world, President Jair Bolsonaro is reducing the amount of data his government is releasing to the public.

The government’s supporters are likely to blame international creditors if there’s no deal

11:34 - As governments stare down the humanitarian and economic shocks of the coronavirus pandemic, some emerging markets with weak financial positions are at greater risk of defaulting on their debts.

16:26 - A Congressional Oversight Commission created by the Cares Act issued its first report even though it still doesn’t have a chair

Iraq named its former intelligence chief as prime minister Thursday, ending months of political deadlock that had seen two previous candidates step aside as the country teetered on the edge of economic free fall.

It wasn’t very diplomatic. On Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave new life to a conspiracy theory inflaming the American right and roiling relations with China. Pompeo told ABC News’s “This Week” that there was “enormous evidence” that the strain of the novel coronavirus originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. When pressed for evidence, he claimed he was not “allowed” to say more. He later tweeted about China’s supposed “history of infecting the world.”