AMERICAS
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Chile Elects Kast Again: Crime and Memory Shape A Presidency
Chile’s run-off gave Jose Antonio Kast 58 percent of the vote and the presidency, ending the center-left era after Gabriel…
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Aid With a Flag: What China’s Hospital Ship Signals in Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin America and the Caribbean face complex choices as China's hospital ship arrives, stirring feelings of sovereignty and external influence…
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Aztecs Still Speak After Conquest, As Empires Fall Apart Today
The so-called fall of the Aztecs in 1521 was never a clean break. However, a violent transformation whose survivors still…
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Colombia Fighters Tied To Sudan Genocide Spark Sweeping U.S. Crackdown
A new U.S. Treasury press release exposes a Colombia-led mercenary pipeline sending ex-soldiers to Sudan, recruiting even children for the…
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Trump’s War Talk Pulls Mexico and Colombia into Crosshairs Again
As Donald Trump weighs extending U.S. military power over Mexico and Colombia, Latin America confronts an old fear in new…
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Latin American Cartels Ride New Silk Road of Global Crime
Across Latin America, Chinese criminal networks quietly braid cartel cash, fentanyl chemicals, and illicit trade into a shadowy “Silk Road…
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Latin America’s Quiet Rebellion Against Churches While Clinging To Faith
Across Latin America, Catholic cathedrals still dominate skylines, yet data reveal surging Protestant movements, rising religious “nones,” and deepening spirituality—an…
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Brazilian Modernist Portinari and Matisse Heist Shocks São Paulo Library
When thieves walked out of São Paulo’s Biblioteca Mário de Andrade with engravings by Brazilian modernist Portinari and Matisse, they…
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St. Lucia’s Ballot Reflects Crime Fears, Passport Debates, And U.S. Ties
St. Lucia's voters have handed Philip J. Pierre and his St. Lucia Labour Party (SLP) another term in power, reaffirming…
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Venezuela Gangs And African Jihadists Drive Europe’s Cocaine
A covert pipeline linking Venezuelan cartels, corrupt security forces, and West African jihadists is flooding Europe with record cocaine shipments,…
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