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With Venezuela in collapse, towns slip into primitive isolation
In the mountains of the state of Lara, residents of the town of Guarico are paying bills with coffee beans,…
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Drug cartels’ ties to politics in spotlight as Guatemala votes
The mayor of Nueva Concepcion, a town of Guatemala, was accused by prosecutors of drug trafficking and money laundering for…
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Baby wipes, tents and private jets: festivals vow to go green
Less than one-third of the 23,500 tonnes of waste produced by Britain's 3 million music festival-goers each year is recycled
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Chilean bishop resigns after comments about Last Supper
The Archdiocese of Santiago did not specify the reasons for Irarrazaval's departure, but said Pope Francis had accepted the bishop's…
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Rio de Janeiro expands unpaid prison labor program
By law, inmates must be paid to work, but last year Rio's government created a new category of "volunteer labor"…
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Should we believe Trump? These are the 3 times that he had to retract this month
Suspending the veto against Huawei is the third time this month that Trump has had to contradict his statements and…
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The essence of the Salvadorean gangs that no government can break
With indelible ink, the members of the Salvadorean gangs tattoo their skin with the promise of belonging to a kind of…
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An armed conflict between the US and Iran would be a condemnation for the Middle East
The tensions between Trump and the Iranian regime in the last month may explode an armed conflict between countries. What…
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‘She provoked him’: Colombia struggles to convict murderers of women
Studies show Latin America is home to 14 of the 25 countries with the world's highest rates of femicide
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Abortion map shows U.S. bans in ‘stark contrast’ to global trend
Reproductive rights experts say bans do not stop abortions but drive them underground, endangering lives and causing an estimated 23,000 deaths a year
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