AMERICAS
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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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Chile’s Disappearing Coastline: A Nation Reckons with the Loss of Its Beaches
Waves are stealing Chile's beaches grain by grain, and unless bold action is taken, iconic stretches like Reñaca and Puerto…
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El Salvador’s Student Massacre Still Haunts a Nation That Won’t Open Its Archives
Fifty years after gunfire tore through a student march in San Salvador, survivors like Mirna Perla still carry shrapnel in…
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How Chilean Court Used Uber Receipts to Convict Tren de Aragua Leaders Redefining War on Crime
Inside Chile's desert city of Arica, investigators cracked a Venezuelan crime syndicate not with bullets or mass arrests, but spreadsheets—turning…
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Chile Confronts Its Past by Turning Cult Compound into Memorial to State Terror
Barbed wire once kept secrets buried at Villa Baviera. Now, Chile's government plans to open the gates—to schoolchildren, archivists, and…
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Crosshairs in the Desert: How U.S. Agents Turned on Humanitarians at the Mexican Border
In Arizona's sun-scorched borderlands, a 74-year-old volunteer delivering water to migrants was thrown to the ground at gunpoint by undercover…
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Venezuelan Rappers Escape El Salvador’s Hell and Turn Their Trauma into Music
Handcuffed, heads shaved, and chained at the waist, Ángel Blanco and Joen Suárez were thrown into one of Latin America's…
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Colombia’s Underwater Graveyard: Divers, Spirits, and the Relentless Search for the Disappeared
For two decades, Buenaventura's San Antonio estuary has whispered rumors of hundreds of bodies being dumped into its murky waters.…
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Ecuador’s ‘El León’ Lands in New York, but His Narco Empire Still Roars at Home
He once ruled a prison like a five-star hotel, but this week, Ecuador's most feared drug lord, José Adolfo "Fito"…
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