AMERICAS
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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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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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