AMERICAS
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Untold Details of Ecuador’s Marble-Bunker Takedown and the Cocaine War Still Raging
Just before sunrise on June 19, Ecuadorian commandos smashed marble tiles inside a seaside mansion and dragged the country’s most…
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Work, Camera, Control: The Bright and Dark Sides of Webcam Modeling in Colombia
In Colombia, an emerging hotspot for webcam modeling, an investigation reveals how a sector that promises economic independence for thousands…
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Scorched in Greece, Frozen in South America: How a Swinging Climate Is Rewriting the Planet’s Extremes
As wildfires tear across Greece and freezing winds snap power lines in Argentina, the world is witnessing two distinct versions…
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Latin Migrants Weather Independence Festivities Hiding from Freedom’s Fireworks
Across Southern California, thousands of mixed-status Latino households will spend the Fourth of July in hiding. With ICE raids sweeping…
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Florida’s Alligator Detention Camp Ignites Latin Fear and Fury
EFE/ @whitehouseA newly built detention camp in Florida's wetlands has become a surreal centerpiece in the U.S. immigration debate, where…
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Panama Shuts the Darién—and the Silence Leaves Villages Reeling
A year after the Darién Gap echoed with the paddles of migrant canoes, the jungle is quiet. President José Raúl…
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Panama Beach Stalls Migrants Making U-Turn to South America
Four years after caravans surged north through the Darién Gap, Panama is now seeing the same trail run in reverse.…
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Inside Haiti’s Last Trauma Ward, Holding the Line as a Nation Unravels
On the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, four makeshift operating rooms inside shipping containers now carry the weight of a country on…
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El Pollo’s Plea: How a Venezuelan Spy Chief Unmasked a Cocaine State Within the State
A stunned silence fell over Caracas when news broke that Hugo “El Pollo” Carvajal—once the unshakable boss of Venezuela’s military…
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Fito’s Fall: Ecuador’s Drug War Hits a Turning Point
At dawn in the coastal city of Manta, soldiers stormed a marble-clad mansion—and ended the six-month flight of Adolfo “Fito”…
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