AMERICAS
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Haiti’s Most Wanted: Barbecue, Bounties, and the Fragile Theater of Power
As Port-au-Prince teeters under the weight of curfews and gunfire, the man at the center—once a police officer, now Haiti's…
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Colombia’s Indigenous Guard Risks Everything to Bring Recruited Children Home
In the mountains of Cauca, unarmed Indigenous Guards walk straight into guerrilla camps to bring back children. They carry no…
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Haiti’s Cemeteries Under Siege: How Gangs Turn Grief into a Ransom Economy
The dead no longer rest in peace in Port-au-Prince. Families now bargain with armed men for burial rights, pay illegal…
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Colombia and Peru Navigate Rising Tensions Over a Shifting Amazon Island
Under the dense humidity of the Amazon basin, where the river's surface hides slow but constant change, Colombia and Peru…
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Colombia’s Streets Erupt as Uribe’s Supporters Turn Verdict Into a Rallying Cry
Under a gray Bogotá sky, rain-slicked streets became a chorus of defiance. Thousands in Colombia and abroad rallied behind former…
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Colombia’s Battle of Boyacá: The Riverbank Where a Republic Was Born and a Monarchy Fell
On a fog-laced afternoon in 1819, a teenage fusilier near a narrow bridge in Boyacá captured a Spanish general—and in…
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Mercury’s Trail: How Latin America’s New Gold Rush Is Poisoning the Amazon
Gold flows from the Amazon like a promise—but hidden in its glitter is a slow-burning poison. Mercury, trafficked in secret…
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Panama Battles Screwworm Surge as Flesh-Eating Fly Creeps Back into the Americas
Along the jungle edge of Darién, ranchers are losing livestock and scientists are losing sleep—because the New World screwworm, once…
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In Celaya, Mexico, a Mayor Fired Half the Police—But the Cartel War Rages On
As reported by The Los Angeles Times, after cartel gunmen executed a mayoral candidate in broad daylight, Celaya's new mayor…
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Fear Shuts Doors on Atlanta’s Latin Corridor, but Buford Highway Refuses to Disappear
Across Buford Highway's shuttered taquerías and half-empty salons, fear now outpaces traffic—but behind the silence, families, business owners, and community…
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