1. Three Venezuelan opposition campaign workers were arrested for unclear reasonsthis weekend, the Plataforma Unitaria coalition says.
Polls show opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia leading by about 30%against President Nicolás Maduro, who has been in power since 2013, for the July 28 presidential elections.
González Urrutia's team has been warning the arrests are fraudulent and antidemocratic.
2. About 49,000 acres of Mayan rainforest in Guatemala burned in May, according to new figures pointing to the worst forest fire season in the country since 1998.
Most of the fires in that affected area were started by cattle ranchers and farmers, local fire chief Walter Mayorga told the news agency EFE yesterday.
The government of President Bernardo Arévalo said on Friday that all forest fires that hit Guatemala since late spring have been extinguished.
