AMERICAS
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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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Ninety Years After the Crash, Medellín Still Dances with Gardel
Ninety summers after a roaring propeller gave out above Medellín, the city where Carlos Gardel died—and a legend was born—has…
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Latin America’s Airspace Is Under Criminal Siege—and They Are Getting Smarter
Drug lords and guerrilla fighters across Latin America are racing to weaponize cheap commercial drones, turning smuggling tools into flying…
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Colombians Protest Calmly As Rebel Attacks Jolt Election Season
A slow tide of white shirts crept through Bogotá this weekend. No chants, no drums—only the scrape of shoes on…
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Carandiru Still haunts Brazil and its Prisons Keep Breeding the Same Violence
More than three decades after São Paulo's Carandiru massacre left 111 inmates dead in half an hour, Brazil's jails remain…
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