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Cuba Moves a Dissident from Prison into a Darker Silence
Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has completed his five-year sentence, yet freedom remains elusive. A monitored phone call, an…
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Latin America Sweats as Air Conditioning Booms and Bills Bite
As heat waves harden into routine, Latin America is buying relief one humming machine at a time. Still, the air-conditioning…
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Trinidad’s Quake-Raised Coast Turns Fool’s Gold into Warning Signs Today
After Venezuela’s violent June earthquakes, Trinidad’s southwest shore rose like a warning, stranding sea life, cracking roads and exposing how…
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Mexico City Bakery Fights Gentrification as Women Knead Safety Again
In downtown Mexico City, Las Panas smells of sugar, yeast, and feminist defiance. Its threatened demolition shows how gentrification turns…
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México World Cup Masks Make Lucha Libre Soccer’s Wildest Sidequest
As soccer fans flood México for the World Cup, lucha libre has become the country’s unofficial night game, turning masks,…
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Mexico World Cup Faces Women’s Safety Reckoning Beyond Stadium Lights
As fans pour into stadiums across North America, advocates warn the Mexico World Cup could intensify violence against women and…
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Mexico’s World Cup Axolotl Masks a Species Vanishing at Home
Across Mexico City, the axolotl smiles from murals, plush toys, and World Cup promotions. In Xochimilco, its last wild refuge,…
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Honduras Sees Cedeño Disappear as Global Climate Injustice Comes Ashore
On Honduras's Pacific coast, Cedeño has lost homes, streets, businesses, and buildings to three decades of erosion. Residents are no…
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Colombian Masked Star Corridos Del Rey Makes Faith Go Viral
Behind a black mask and tejana hat, Colombian viral sensation Corridos Del Rey has transformed a suicidal crisis into a…
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Colombian Star Maluma Trades the American Dream for Homegrown Fire
On his seventh album, Loco x volver, Colombian singer Maluma rejects borrowed perfection and returns to Medellín, regional sounds, and…
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