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Argentina’s president announces economy deregulation as thousands protest against austerity
Argentine President Javier Milei has announced sweeping initiatives to transform the country’s struggling economy, including easing government regulation and allowing privatization of state-run industries as a way to boost exports and investment.
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US, Venezuela swap prisoners: Maduro ally for 10 Americans, plus fugitive contractor ‘Fat Leonard’
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‘Fat Leonard,’ a fugitive now returning to the US, was behind one of the military’s biggest scandals
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Suriname’s ex-dictator sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 1982 killings of political opponents
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Mexico’s president predicts full recovery for Acapulco, but resort residents see difficulties
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Meet the Russian professor who became mayor of a Colombian city
Mikhail Krasnov, a Russian-born professor of economics, this year became the mayor of Tunja, a city in Colombia’s Andean highlands.
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Indictment against high-ranking Hezbollah figure says he helped plan deadly 1994 Argentina bombing
A high-ranking member of Hezbollah’s Islamic Jihad Organization has been charged in a New York federal court with terrorism offenses, though he remains at large.
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Brazil lawsuits allege direct relationship between meatpackers, deforesters on protected land
In an unusual series of legal actions, Brazilian prosecutors have sued multinational meatpacker JBS and three smaller slaughterhouses for allegedly buying cattle directly from illegal ranches in a protected area.
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Takeaways from lawsuits accusing meat giant JBS, others of contributing to Amazon deforestation
Authorities in a western Brazil state are taking aim at deforestation of the Amazon with a slew of lawsuits against slaughterhouses and farmers accused of illegally raising cattle in a protected area.
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Mexican business group says closure of US rail border crossings costing $100 million per day
A leading Mexican business group says the U.S. decision to close two railway border crossings into Texas is costing $100 million per day in delayed shipments.
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2 Guinean children are abandoned in Colombian airport as African migrants take new route to US
Colombian authorities say two children from the West African nation of Guinea were abandoned in Bogota’s airport and taken into government custody this week after spending several days on their own in the international departures terminal.
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Former Haitian senator sentenced to life in prison in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president
A federal judge in Miami has sentenced a former Haitian senator to life in prison for conspiring to kill Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, which caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation.
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Mining company agrees with court decision ordering Guatemala to grant property rights to community
Solway Investment Group, a Switzerland-based mining company with interests in Guatemala, says it agrees with a regional court’s decision requiring the Guatemalan government to recognize the property rights of an Indigenous community.
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Chileans eschew extremes in quest for new constitution and end up with the old one
Chileans closed an exhausting constitutional cycle by separating themselves from the extremes. They have voted to stick with the same constitution, a holdover from the dictatorship, that they had wanted to rewrite four years ago.
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FDA finds ‘extremely high’ lead levels in cinnamon at Ecuador plant that made tainted fruit pouches
U.S. food inspectors found “extremely high” lead levels in cinnamon at a plant in Ecuador that made applesauce pouches tainted with the metal.
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Mexico’s president calls for state prosecutor’s ouster after 12 were killed leaving holiday party
Mexico’s president has called for the resignation of the state prosecutor in Guanajuato in light of the state’s high levels of violence.
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16 killed in Christmas-season shootings in central Mexico state of Guanajuato
Twelve people are dead following an attack by gunmen on a Christmas season party in the town of Salvatierra in Mexico’s north-central state of Guanajuato.
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Colombia’s leftist ELN rebels agree to stop kidnapping for ransom, at least temporarily
Rebels from Colombia’s leftist National Liberation Army have agreed to stop using kidnapping as a fund-raising tactic, if the current cease-fire with the government is extended.
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Mexico’s Maya tourist train opens for partial service amid delays and cost overruns
Mexico’s Maya Train rail project has opened partially to the general public with hours-long delays and huge cost overruns.
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Brazil approves a major tax reform overhaul that Lula says will ‘facilitate investment’
Brazil’s lower house has approved a major reform of the nation’s notoriously complicated tax system.
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Chile arrests 55 people in a $275 million tax fraud case that officials call the country’s biggest
Chile’s police have arrested at least 55 people in a fiscal fraud case that could be one of the biggest in the history of the Andean nation, amounting to about $275 million.
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US government injects confusion into Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election
U.S. diplomats have injected confusion into next year’s presidential election in Venezuela by applauding the purported inclination of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and other foes of the Venezuelan government to appeal their bans on running for office.
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Mexico’s president inaugurates first part of $20 billion tourist train project on Yucatan peninsula
Mexico’s president has inaugurated the first part of the pet project of his administration, a tourist train that runs in a rough loop around the Yucatan peninsula.
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International court rules against Guatemala in a landmark Indigenous and environmental rights case
Guatemala violated Indigenous rights by permitting a huge nickel mine on tribal land almost two decades ago, according to a ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
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Companies announce partnership to release dengue-fighting mosquitoes in the Caribbean
Two private companies have announced a partnership to release mosquitoes across the Caribbean bred with a bacterium that blocks the dengue virus as the region fights a record number of cases.
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Suriname’s ex-dictator faces final verdict in 1982 killings of political opponents. Some fear unrest
Suriname’s former dictator will face a final verdict this month in the years-long judicial process over the 1982 killings of 15 political opponents that deeply scarred the South American country.
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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Dec. 8-14, 2023
Brazil’s City of God residents received a visit from “Papai Negro,” or Black Santa, kicking off the holiday season.
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Belgian tourist dies in an animal attack at Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Zihuatanejo
A Belgian tourist was killed in an attack by either a shark or a crocodile at a Mexican Pacific coast resort.
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Brazil’s Congress overrides president’s veto to reinstate legislation threatening Indigenous rights
Brazil’s Congress has overturned a veto by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva so it can reinstate legislation that undoes protections of Indigenous peoples’ land rights.
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Mexico’s search for people falsely listed as missing finds some alive, rampant poor record-keeping
The Mexican government’s controversial effort to look for people falsely listed as missing has turned up 16,681 who had returned to their homes but not notified the authorities.
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U.S. Coast Guard and cruise line save 12 passengers after boat sinks near Dominican Republic
The U.S. Coast Guard says a boat carrying 12 passengers sank north of the Dominican Republic during inclement weather, and all have been rescued.
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Amazon rift: Five things to know about the dispute between an Indigenous chief and Belgian filmmaker
The renowned chief from the Amazon rainforest and the Belgian filmmaker appeared to be close friends at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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Anxiety and resignation in Argentina after Milei’s economic shock measures
Argentines are facing uncertainty and concerns after President Javier Milei’s government announced economic shock measures aimed at tackling the country’s severe crisis.
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Guyana and Venezuela agree to refrain from using force, but fail to resolve territorial dispute
The leaders of Guyana and Venezuela have promised in a tense meeting that neither side will use threats or force against the other, but failed to reach agreement on how to address a bitter dispute over a vast border region rich with oil and minerals.
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Colombian congressional panel sets probe into president over alleged campaign finance misdeeds
A Colombian congressional committee has ordered a preliminary investigation into President Gustavo Petro over allegations of crimes in the financing of his election campaign.
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Brazil’s Senate approves Lula ally as new Supreme Court justice
Brazil’s Senate has approved the appointment of Justice Minister Flávio Dino to take a seat on the country’s Supreme Court.
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Costa Rican president expresses full support for Guatemala’s President-elect Bernardo Arévalo
Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves on Wednesday welcomed Guatemala’s President-elect Bernardo Arévalo and offered his country’s full support as the elected leader continues to face legal challenges from prosecutors who attempt to derail his inauguration.
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The last residents of a coastal Mexican town destroyed by climate change
Flooding has destroyed the Mexican town of El Bosque. It’s driven by some of the world’s fastest sea-level rise and increasingly brutal winter storms.
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6 killed in reported shootout between drug cartels in northern Mexico state of Zacatecas
Authorities say six people are dead following a shootout between drug cartel gunmen in the northern Mexico state of Zacatecas.
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ExxonMobil says it will stay in Guyana for the long term despite territorial dispute with Venezuela
Oil giant ExxonMobil says it will keep ramping up production in offshore Guyana despite the escalation of a territorial dispute with neighboring Venezuela, which claims that oil-rich region as its own.
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