LIFE
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Brazil Debates Defunding Funk Music That ‘Glorifies Crime’
A push by São Paulo city councilors to cancel government contracts for performers accused of praising drug gangs has spread…
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Latin American Colonial Past Lives on in European Living‑Room Plants
The cactus on your sill and the begonia spilling over a macramé hanger look innocent enough, yet each leaf carries…
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Official Spanish Version of U.S. Anthem Resurfaces During Dodger Stadium Dissent
A pop star's decision to sing a long-forgotten Spanish translation of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before a Dodgers game jolted Los…
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Uruguay Dances Until Dawn as Quevedo’s ‘Buenas Noches’ Lights Montevideo
What began as an ordinary reggaetón concert became a dawn-long declaration of joy in Montevideo, where Quevedo—Spain's 23-year-old streaming phenomenon—proved…
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Chile Poetry Collective Turns Bomb Sites into Literal Falling Literature
A Chilean art trio is rewriting the memory of air raids: helicopters that once strafed civilians now shower cities with…
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Nicaragua’s Pioneer Stateswoman Who Beat Ortega and Sought Harmony
When Violeta Barrios de Chamorro stunned the hemisphere in 1990 by unseating the Sandinista revolution, many Nicaraguans saw only a…
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Puerto Ricans Remember Massacre as Pulse Site Opens Before Demolition
Nine years after a gunman killed 49 people inside Orlando's Pulse nightclub, survivors and relatives—many of them Puerto Rican—walked through…
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Latin American Museum Plan Collides with Trump’s Sweeping Cultural Rollback
Twenty years of unlikely coalition-building behind the National Museum of the American Latino now stand on a knife-edge. President Donald…
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Puerto Rican Grandmothers Stir Art and Flavor in Sofrito Manifesto
Artist Bernardo Medina raided his late abuela's recipe shoebox and splashed those flavors across 250 pages of photographs and pop-art…
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Mexico’s Virgin of Guadalupe Lights Madrid and Bridges Centuries of Shared Faith
Madrid's Prado has never smelled quite like this: cedar crates, fresh varnish, and a whiff of copal incense mingle as…
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