Countries: Mexico, Dominica, Suriname, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Please refer to the attached Infographic. KEY FIGURES 2K people displaced due to escalating violence in May across three Mexican states 739K people reached by humanitarian response in Venezuela (Jan-Apr 2026) 13K estimated heat-related deaths annually across 17 countries in the region MEXICO: DISPLACEMENT At least 2,000 people fled their homes across Guerrero, Michoacán, and Durango in early May as criminal violence triggered three separate displacement events. An estimated 390,000 people were already living in displacement due to conflict and violence at end-2025, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), while a 2025 government survey estimated nearly 250,000 households were forced to flee in 2024 alone. Indigenous and rural communities in all three states are among the most exposed. The UN’s internal displacement working group has stepped up coordination across all three cases to assess needs and scale up support. CARIBBEAN: FLOODING In southern Suriname, approximately 3,384 people across eight villages in the Tapanahony and Coeroeni areas face crop losses and deteriorating access conditions — with fuel constraints threatening air and river operations that remote indigenous communities depend on. In Dominica, a late-April trough system caused flooding, landslides, and infrastructure damage across several communities, including the Kalinago Territory; saturated soils and slope instability raise concern that additional rainfall could worsen conditions. The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) deployed a technical team for hydrometeorological, geological, and engineering assessments. In Suriname, the National Coordination Center for Disaster Management (NCCR) is leading the national response, with UN agencies prepared to provide targeted support. VENEZUELA: HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE Between January and April 2026, 739,000 people (62 per cent women and girls) accessed essential services through the humanitarian response in Venezuela. In coordination with national and local authorities, assistance continued across key sectors. The clusters that reached the largest number of people were Health, Food Security and Livelihoods, and Nutrition. The response, implemented by 97 humanitarian organizations, covered 253 municipalities across all states. As of 20 May, the humanitarian response in Venezuela has mobilized US$97.4 million, which covers 15.4 per cent of the funding requirements for the Humanitarian Response Plan this year. REGIONAL: CLIMATE Every major climate indicator in Latin America and the Caribbean worsened or held at historically bad levels in 2025, according to a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report published 18 May. Temperatures ranked among the fifth to eighth warmest on record, with Mexico warming fastest at 0.34°C per decade since 1991. Sea levels along the northern Atlantic coast of South America and across Central America and the Caribbean rose faster than the global average. Andean glaciers lost mass at an accelerating rate, threatening freshwater for roughly 90 million people. An estimated 13,000 heat-attributable deaths occur annually across 17 countries in the region — a figure WMO considers a significant undercount due to inconsistent national reporting.