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Brazil’s political brawler Ciro Gomes takes election fight 2022-08-09 06:00:25Centre-left politician has tough words for his opponents: ‘Nowhere else in the world would these two be candidates’

Petro sworn in as Colombia’s president in historic 2022-08-07 20:58:13Former urban guerrilla to lead South American country’s most leftwing government

Firefighters battle inferno at Cuban oil facility 2022-08-07 18:29:10Matanzas lightning strike triggers blaze at installation critical to island’s electricity system

The challenges for Latin America’s new left 2022-08-07 09:42:51Incoming presidents face a daunting agenda, above all delivering strong growth

Bolsonaro bets improving Brazilian economy will be election 2022-08-07 06:00:22Voters rank economy above crime and corruption as the most important issue

Colombia’s military eyes new president Petro with ‘deep 2022-08-04 00:00:39Former leftwing guerrilla navigates tense relations with country’s armed forces as he prepares to take office

Argentina’s new economy minister pledges to restore fiscal 2022-08-03 21:02:18Investors hope Sergio Massa has political capital to take tough measures to bring down runaway inflation

Waiting for Superbond 2022-08-03 07:09:55Sovereign bond contracts should be enforceable. Is that really too much to ask?

Boosting civic trust is essential to Latin American 2022-07-31 10:06:41Governments must be transparent and engage citizens in decisions about tax, spending and regulation

Greater employee ownership can make work fairer 2022-07-31 07:03:49Giving workers the opportunity to profit-share and use their voice can benefit companies as a whole

The rise of ‘03’: Bolsonaro’s third son is 2022-07-31 00:00:10As far-right president starts re-election bid, Eduardo has emerged as his father’s trusted envoy and ideologue

Aeroméxico’s flight to the US illustrates woes of 2022-07-29 07:00:32Companies and investors in the region are abandoning its stock markets

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Mexican Border Cities Beset by Burning Vehicles, Blockades 2022-08-13 18:14:45The Mexican border cities of Tijuana, Mexicali, Rosarito and Ensenada were hit by gang violence that included vehicles being set ablaze and road block

Reviving Mexico's Groundbreaking Muralism a Century Later 2022-08-13 03:00:55A painter in orange overalls touches up the image of a hand holding a rifle while an artist perched on scaffolding painstakingly places bits of colorf

Native American News Roundup August 7-13, 2022 2022-08-13 03:00:12Here is a summary of Native American-related news around the U.S. this week: New Federal Group to Challenge Racist Place Names Interior Se

Canadian First Nations, Catholic Church Reflect After Papal 2022-08-12 20:49:28Pope Francis’ recent visit to Canada featured a widely reported apology for decades of horrific abuses at church-run residential schools for Ind

Paraguay Vice President to Quit After US Alleges 2022-08-12 19:32:46Paraguay Vice President Hugo Velázquez Moreno said Friday he would resign next week, shortly after he was included on a U.S. corruption list fo

Gang Violence Leaves 11 Dead in Mexican Border 2022-08-12 19:14:33A gang riot inside a border prison that left two inmates dead quickly spread to the streets of Ciudad Juarez where alleged gang members killed nine mo

Power Restored in Toronto After Outage Leaves Businesses 2022-08-11 23:01:41Power was restored in downtown Toronto on Thursday after an outage left the offices of Canada's top businesses in the dark, forced the evacuation of

Initial Attempts to Reach Trapped Mexican Miners Unsuccessful 2022-08-11 21:29:32Rescue divers' first attempts to reach 10 miners trapped since last week inside a flooded coal mine were stopped by debris-filled shafts and poor vis

Downtown Toronto Suffers Power Outage, Disrupts Banks, Cafes 2022-08-11 20:12:51A power outage in Toronto's downtown core Thursday left the offices of Canada's top businesses in the dark, forced the evacuation of one of the city

Brazil Manifestos Seek to Rein in Bolsonaro Before 2022-08-11 01:48:42Brazilians poured into the University of Sao Paulo’s law school to hear a manifesto denouncing the brutal military dictatorship and calling for

Police Raid Peru President's Home in Search of 2022-08-10 21:37:16Police on Wednesday raided the private home of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, local media reported, in search of his corruption-accused sister-in-

Firefighters Subdue Deadly Blaze at Key Oil Facility 2022-08-10 20:54:28A deadly fire that consumed at least half of a large oil storage facility in western Cuba and threatened to bring more power failures to the island's

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51-year-old man charged over Muslim murders in US 2022-08-09 20:52:08US police hunting the killer of four Muslim men in a New Mexico city said Tuesday they have arrested their “primary suspect” and charged h

Republicans rally around Trump following FBI raid of 2022-08-09 18:36:12For much of the year, small cracks in Donald Trump’s political support have been growing. Dissatisfied Republican primary voters began to consid

FBI 'raided' Trump's Florida estate in confidential records 2022-08-08 19:14:06The FBI searched Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Flo

Singer Olivia Newton-John, star of smash musical ‘Grease’, 2022-08-08 16:20:58Singer Olivia Newton-John, who gained worldwide fame as high school sweetheart Sandy in the hit musical movie "Grease," died on Monday after a 30-ye

Mexico's president visits site of trapped miners as 2022-08-07 20:44:53Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called Sunday for intensified efforts to save 10 workers trapped in a flooded coal mine, during a visit

US Senate passes sweeping bill targeting climate change, 2022-08-07 17:45:36The U.S. Senate on Sunday passed a sweeping $430 billion bill intended to fight climate change, lower drug prices and raise some corporate taxes, a ma

Ex-rebel Gustavo Petro sworn in as Colombia's first 2022-08-07 17:00:07Colombia’s first leftist president was sworn into office Sunday, promising to fight inequality and heralding a turning point in the history of a

Cuba asks for international help as deadly oil 2022-08-07 05:48:16 A fire set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage facility raged uncontrolled in the Cuban city of Matanzas, where four explosions and flam

US jury orders Alex Jones to pay $45 2022-08-06 02:26:46A Texas jury on Friday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a child who was killed in the

Infowars host ordered to pay $4.1 million for 2022-08-04 20:07:03U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre at least $4.1 million for falsely claiming th

US declares monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency 2022-08-04 19:05:59The United States has declared monkeypox a public health emergency, the health secretary said on Thursday, a move expected to free up additional fundi

Biden signs second executive order to help protect 2022-08-03 19:03:36President Joe Biden said on Wednesday the Supreme Court and Republicans are clueless about the power of American women as he signed a second executive