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Ecuador Bets on Curfew Politics as Cartels Move in Shadows
Ecuador's expanded nighttime curfew is being sold as a strike against criminal gangs. Still, its deeper test is whether a…
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Latin America’s Far Right Turns Feminism Into Its Favorite Enemy
Across Latin America, far-right movements are using anti-feminist panic to reorganize politics, weaken equality institutions, attack sex education, and redirect…
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Cuba Tests Trump’s Foreign Policy Math Beyond Venezuela and Iran
Cuba is not Venezuela, nor Iran, and Washington's pressure campaign faces a harder Caribbean equation: fewer quick rewards, a tighter…
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Mexico Captures Cartel Heir, but Violence Waits Around the Corner
The arrest of El Jardinero gives Mexico a rare security victory, but the burned vehicles in Nayarit point to a…
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Cuba Vote Shows Washington’s War Button Still Has Few Locks
A failed Senate push to curb Trump's military authority over Cuba leaves Latin America staring at a dangerous pattern: Iran,…
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South American Drums Rise as Central American Silence Grows Louder
A SIPRI report shows South America spending more on militaries while Central America pulls back sharply. The split suggests a…
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Peru Counts So Slowly It Makes Elections Look Dirty
Peru's election mess is not only about missing ballots or delayed tallies. It is about a democracy that keeps producing…
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Colombia Lets Its Peacemakers Bleed While Democracy Calls It Progress
Violence against Colombia's social leaders kept rising in 2025, exposing a democracy that still struggles to protect its bravest citizens.…
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Argentina Shuts the Press, and Democracy Hears the Door Slam
Argentina's decision to block accredited journalists from the Casa Rosada was more than a press dispute. Symbolically, it told democracy…
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El Salvador Cannot Call Mass Gang Trials Its Nuremberg Moment
President Nayib Bukele's comparison between El Salvador's mass gang trial and Nuremberg may be politically sharp, but historically thin. The…
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