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(MAY 14, 2024) NYT's Bad Reporting on Brazil Predictably Used by GOP to Attack Democracy There 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 620
High court rejects latest emergency declaration but Noboa says troops will remain in the streets 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 488
President Milei's surprising devotion to Judaism and Israel provokes tension in Argentina and beyond 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 792
As Apparel Makers Move Work From China to Central America, Jobs Could Dent Migration Crisis 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 6431
Wanna be a good dad? A 'School for Men' teaches diapering, ponytail making 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 567
'We fight day and night': The Amazon women guarding their rainforest from mining 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 880
Brazil's Lula stands by finance minister but rejects spending cuts targeting the poor 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 455
Why banana brand Chiquita was found liable for deaths in the Colombia's Civil War 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 636
'I'm Going to Promote a Symphony' of Languages Says Indigenous Writer and New Member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 457
Tensions Rise with U.S. Submarine's Arrival in Cuban Waters 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 797
Milei and Lula's frosty relationship was in full display at G7 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 567
Chile to join humanitarian demining in Ukraine 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 432
Outraged Brazilian women stage protests against bill to equate late abortions with homicide 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 458
Brazil asks Argentina for help in locating Bolsonaro coup fugitives 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 901
Thousands of displaced residents in southern Mexico fear returning to their homes after violence 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 6026
Colombia plans to provide medical treatment to Palestinian children injured in Israel-Hamas war 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 483
Spiraling criminal violence causes morgue to overflow, foul odors to spread in Ecuadorian city 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 533
Just 6 months in, Milei is dismantling Argentina's memory policy 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 669
Argentina approves bill to slash workers' rights as riot cops clash with protesters 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 658
How hard is it to root out corruption? Ask Guatemala's new president. 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 511
Carrefour's Bold Leap into Brazil's Urban Future with a Record-Setting Skyscraper 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 513
Brazilian Deputies Approve Proposal that Provides for Suspending Parliamentarians for Fighting 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 470
Duck and Cover time: Russian ships, submarine arrive in Cuba 8 Marcus IM Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 1014
US Jury Holds Chiquita Liable for Colombian Death Squad's Murder of Banana Workers 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 637
Argentine playwright Roberto Cossa, co-founder of country's "New Realism" movement, dies at 89 1 peppertree Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 762
'The gangs never used to kill children, now they do': how cocaine created Argentina's first narcocity 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 703
Milei's reform package squeaks by in key first Senate vote 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 538
Peru extends pre-trial detention of former president Pedro Castillo 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 540
Voting machine contract under scrutiny following discrepancies in Puerto Rico's primaries 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 579
Colombian man who drugged, robbed US soldiers sentenced to 48 years By Riley Ceder 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 670

Latin America Continued...

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Over 4,000 residents flee a town in southern Mexico after armed gangs start shooting, burn homes 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 654
A Dictatorship Is Born 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 21 1097
'Let's Maintain Bruno Pereira's Legacy', Says the Indigenist's Widow 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 505
Landfills Stain the Landscape in the Amazon 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 559
Gunmen open fire on students at a rural University of Panama campus, killing 1 and wounding another 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 524
Nearly 50 years after her death, Uruguay lays to rest a woman disappeared by its dictatorship 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 503
El Salvador Braces for Five More Years of the World's Self-Proclaimed "Coolest Dictator" 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 761
There's a Hidden Water Cycle in The Amazon We Barely Know Anything About 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 717
Haiti's new prime minister hospitalized days after being selected to lead country 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 630
Argentina's far-right president poised to shut down anti-gender violence agency 0 Eugene Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 629
Russian warships will arrive in Havana next week, say Cuban officials citing 'friendly relations' 9 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 1179
Colombia begins exploring 'holy grail of shipwrecks' 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 679
U.S. man sentenced to 42 years in prison for femicide in Colombia 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 719
Feature: A Cuban cultural anthropologist's academic quest in China 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 595
2,000-year-old rock art, including nearly 140-foot-long snake, may mark ancient territories in Colombia, Venezuela 6 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 848
A smiling Milei attends Bukele's new inauguration 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 568
Ecuadorian alternate lawmaker and his wife shot dead at circus function 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 499
USS George Washington crosses into Chilean waters 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 581
Cuba's high-level diplomat to make first-ever official visit to S. Korea 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 8191
Gang members at prison operated call center and monitored crocodile-filled lake, Guatemala officials say 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 719
Takeaways from AP report on the DEA's secret spying program in Venezuela 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 543
A scientist, a leftist and a former Mexico City mayor. Who is Claudia Sheinbaum? 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 763
Argentina's Milei: "At some point people are going to die of hunger, and they are going to decide not to die" 4 peppertree Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 846
Why Mexico City's thirst is causing it to sink 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 663
1,000-year-old mummy with full head of hair and intact jaw found in Peru 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 706
Mexican officials again criticize volunteer searcher after she finds more bodies 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 13 924
Brazil-US Relations Were Born under the Monroe Doctrine and Changed Paradigm in the 20th Century 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 470
Sexist tropes and misinformation swirl online as Mexico prepares to elect its first female leader 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 504
Amid 18% hunger, Argentina's Milei administration releases thousands of tons of food it had sequestered 1 peppertree May 2024 May 2024 8 749
Mothers of Plaza de Mayo co-founder and longtime leader Nora Cortinas dies at 94 0 peppertree May 2024 May 2024 3 545

Latin America Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Mayoral candidate shot dead at election campaign rally in Mexico's Guerrero 1 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 5 510
Brazil Withdraws Ambassador from Israel Without Naming a Replacement 2 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 3 475
From 2 yrs. ago: State of Exception Confirms Divide between US Dems and GOP over Bukele 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 1 515
In El Salvador, Fear and Silence Shroud the Dead 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 1 489
Violence clouds the last day of campaigning for Mexico's election 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 3 433
Ronnie Lessa Says He Would Earn up to $20 Million for Councilor Marielle Franco's Murder 2 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 4 685
Colombia's congress votes to ban bullfights, dealing a blow to the centuries-old tradition 2 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 3 629
"Shady network of corrupt officials" tried to usurp Colombia's police 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 1 547
US files a labor complaint over claims that a Volkswagen plant in Mexico fired union activists 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 1 455
TSA officials apologize to county officials after bipartisan outrage over Cuban delegation tour of MIA 3 Marcus IM May 2024 May 2024 3 719
Survivor of Mexico armed attack given protection 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 5 675
Claudia Sheinbaum is likely to be Mexico's next president. Who is she? (WaPo) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 6 732
Protecting the Darkness in Chile's Atacama Desert 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 4 668
What Australia can learn from Latin America when it comes to tackling violence against women 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 6 537
Photos confirm narcotraffickers operating in Peru's Kakataibo Indigenous Reserve 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 4 613
Top brands buy Amazon carbon credits from suspected timber laundering scam 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 5 699
Organized crime puts unprecedented pressure on Guatemala's largest rainforest 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 5 561
Fishers decry 'underhanded' new initiative to protect Mexico's vaquita 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 3 619
The Biden administration has a plan to shut down the border. But it needs Mexico's help. 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 0 711
In Mexico, a wave of political murders ahead of elections eats away at democracy 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 0 481
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