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ANALYSIS
Chile’s Rightward Swerve: Crime, Borders, and the Minerals That Could Redraw the Hemispheric Map
Crime, anxiety, and mass migration have cracked Chile's political center, pushing voters toward José Antonio Kast and raising the prospect…
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AMERICAS
El Salvador’s Jesuit Case Is Stuck Again, and Time Is Becoming an Accomplice
Thirty-six years after soldiers murdered six Jesuit priests and two women at San Salvador's UCA, the drive to prosecute the…
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ECONOMY
Can Amazon “Superfoods” Save the Forest? Inside Belém’s Bid to Turn Biodiversity into a Bioeconomy
Belém's new Bioeconomy Park hums with the sound of processors transforming rainforest fruits into powders bound for smoothie counters half…
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LIFE
Puerto Rico’s Sapo Concho Leaps from Pop Cameo to Conservation Crusade
Catapulted into the spotlight by Bad Bunny's hit documentary, Puerto Rico's only endemic toad, the sapo concho, has gone from…
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Borders and migration
A Leaked Memo, a State of Emergency, and Venezuelan Lives on Edge in Trinidad and Tobago
In Trinidad and Tobago, a leaked memo ordering mass detentions and a broad state of emergency has forced Venezuelan migrants…
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
The Scientist Who Helped Rewire Uruguay, and May Now Help Rewire the World
Uruguay's dizzyingly fast sprint toward nearly 100% renewable electricity began with an unlikely moment: a particle physicist answering his phone…
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ANALYSIS
Would Russia Really Defend Venezuela? Caracas Tests the Kremlin as Invasion Fears Spread
As Washington intensifies military pressure in the Caribbean and talk of a U.S. invasion of Venezuela gathers force, a question…
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SPORTS
When Politics Ride Shotgun: Latin America’s Cyclists Navigate a Sport Built on Fragile Money
As cycling leans ever harder on nation-state sponsorship—from golden Pogacar statues in Abu Dhabi to protest-snarled stages in Spain—Latin American…
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BUSINESS AND FINANCE
Immigration Raids Reshape Latino Shopping Streets, and Push Consumers Online
In Newark’s Ironbound and other Latino hubs, Trump-era immigration raids have hollowed out foot traffic, spooked shoppers, and squeezed small…
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LIFE
The Veteran Who Saved Lives in Iraq, Lost His Own in Colorado, and Was Deported Into Uncertainty
Born in Venezuela to Cuban exiles, raised in the U.S. from age four, and twice deployed to Iraq, Army gunner…
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