AMERICAS
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Argentina Visa Surprise Spotlights West Wing Choreography and Growing Pains
A celebratory announcement in Buenos Aires—hinting at Argentina's return to visa-free U.S. travel—landed like a thunderclap in Washington. Homeland Security's…
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South America Patrols Escalate as Destroyers Test Diplomacy and Deterrence
Three U.S. Navy destroyers are moving toward South American waters with orders to directly interdict cartel traffickers. The deployment fuses…
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Amazon River Island Dispute Spotlights Forgotten Lives at Borders
On Santa Rosa, a Peruvian islet at the Amazon's triple border, survival means catching rainwater in barrels, living above floods…
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Colombia And Peru Face a Living, Moving Amazon Border That Won’t Hold
At the southern edge of Colombia, the river that sustains life and commerce is slipping away. The Amazon's primary current…
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Bolivian Election Day Drama Explained As Morales Guarded Amid An Arrest Warrant
On a day thick with tension, Evo Morales moved toward the polls encircled by a human shield of loyalists. He…
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Mexico Case Unravels Cartel Empire from Tennessee Crash to Kingpins
What started as a car crash in a quiet Tennessee town exploded into a coast-to-coast dragnet stretching to Michoacán—exposing a…
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Mexico Travel Warning Redraws Maps as Politics, Cartels and Tourism Collide
A new U.S. travel advisory brands cartel violence in Mexico as "terrorism," jolting the tourism industry, stoking political tension, and…
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Venezuelan Arsenal Grows as Russian Ties Face Limits in Cash and Crude
An Americas Quarterly report shows that, under parading tanks and promises of missiles, Venezuela is tightening its bond with Russia.…
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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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