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Caribbean Nations Bring Britain a Slavery Bill That Royal Regret Cannot Settle
Caribbean governments are pressing Britain for slavery reparations extending beyond money to debt relief, education and public health. As King…
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Colombia Trained Soldiers for Its Own War, Then Ukraine Became Their Workplace
Colombia reports hundreds of deaths and nearly a thousand disappearances linked to Russia’s war against Ukraine. Decades of domestic conflict…
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Colombian Crackdown Meets Cúcuta’s Border Economy, Where Criminals Collect Their Own Taxes
Cúcuta’s militarization follows a candidate’s murder and a bombing, but the violence reaches beyond Colombia. Armed groups exploit routes into…
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Honduras’s Harsh New Gang Laws Expose Risks of an Unequal Justice System
Honduras has approved sweeping gang penalties, including life imprisonment, but harsher punishment carries dangerous consequences when courts struggle with corruption,…
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Colombia’s Amazon Oil Reversal: Who Pays the Price for Forest Loss?
Colombia’s reversal of an Amazon oil-protection measure has reignited a political fight over consultation, conservation, and development. Behind the accusations…
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Lula’s Reelection Leaves Trump’s Latin American Power Play One Giant Short
Lula’s reelection keeps Brazil outside Donald Trump’s expanding circle of regional allies, but the consequences extend beyond ideology. Trade, security,…
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Lula’s Comeback: A Divided Mandate and the High Cost of Governing Brazil
Lula’s historic election comeback gives Brazil four more years of familiar leadership, but a divided electorate, a hostile Congress and…
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Ecuador Prison Massacres Reveal the Lucrative Underworld Profiting Behind Bars
Eight deaths in two Ecuador prisons have broken a period of relative calm. The wider crisis involves cocaine routes, fractured…
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Colombia Changes Ministers Again as Budget Trouble Meets a Narrowing Political Tent
Rodrigo Lara’s abrupt dismissal exposes Colombia’s uneasy balance between governing competence and ideological loyalty. A failed budget procedure provides the…
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Latin American Presidents Struggle for Approval as Public Demands Real Change
Claudia Sheinbaum and Nayib Bukele dominate a new Latin American presidential ranking, but the deeper story lies below them. Widespread…
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