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A forensic artist has given a 500-year-old Inca "ice maiden" a face 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 15 1001
Thousands protest in Argentina over proposed economic reforms 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 570
Cuban President Welcomes Leader of World Council of Churches 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 676
Brazil's Most Powerful Militia Leader Arrested 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 452
Caribbean Matters: Democratic Rep. Nydia Velzquez calls for an end to the Monroe Doctrine 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 1215
How the Campaign to Free Venezuelan Political Prisoner Alex Saab Succeeded 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 917
Argentina's government publishes decree dismissing around 7,000 state workers 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 542
Uruguay's green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it's done 3 Jilly_in_VA Dec 2023 Dec 2023 14 905
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Camp Where Maya Ate Cooked Snails 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 684
A Lost World of Lagoons Has Suddenly Appeared in Argentina 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 33 1481
The Man Who Made a Pact With Wild Bees in Colombia's Amazon 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 19 1018
Colombian Trafficker's Police Boyfriend Was Unknowingly Involved In Her Arrest 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 503
Iguala, Guerrero: Los de La Sierra Interrogation And Mass Execution of La Bandera Operatives - graphic, violent 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 687
Large Fentanyl Labs Beginning to Appear in Canada 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 668
What Lies Beneath the Vatican of the Zapotecs? 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 24 2527
Unusual boxes and 7,000-year-old trove found locked in ice 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 72 2983
The Modern-Day Nativity Scene: A Concertina Wire Christmas 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 8 822
Lula calls for peace, unity in the face of 'hatred' 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 633
Argentine economy minister - who profited from last major devaluation - announces deep cuts, record devaluation 3 peppertree Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 992
Panamanians remember 1989 US invasion and continue to demand justice and accountability 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 888
Arrest of former Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani ordered 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 577
Guatemala's Democracy Descends Into Crisis, With Implications For The US 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 678
Outcry as Mexico reduces number of disappeared 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 799
Mexico's Next Chapter Will Be Written by Leftist Women 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 845
ESO's ELT Is Likely As Large As Optical Telescopes Will Get 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 12 725
Brazilian passenger arrives with 20 kilos of cocaine hidden in wheelchair 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 681
The Number Of Women In Drug Cartels And Organized Crime Networks Is Growing 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 767
Cuba quietly authorises euthanasia 7 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 13 793
US Media Suppressed Their Government's Role in Ousting Brazil's Government 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 962
Will South America's trade bloc collapse? - TLDR News Global 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 520

Latin America Continued...

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In Mexico, pinatas are not just child's play. They're a 400-year-old tradition 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 795
US bars Guatemala prosecutors and judge from obtaining visas amid election dispute 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 565
Child labor in Brazil grew from 2019 to 2022 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 374
Mexico's president is willing to help with border migrant crush but wants US to open talks with Cuba 1 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 686
Organized Crime Blamed for Half of Latin America's Homicides 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 398
Colorado justice with roots in El Salvador sided with Trump 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 502
El Salvador: Statement at the US House Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 508
Israel And Genocide: Not Only In Gaza 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 645
FLIP denounces death threat against Colombian journalist 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 0 439
Rise of archery in Andes Mountains dated to 5,000 years ago--earlier than previous research 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 8 664
How America's love of avocados is affecting Mexico's forests - CBS News 1 TexasTowelie Dec 2023 Dec 2023 9 850
Bypassing congress, Argentina's Milei decrees sweeping economic deregulation and privatization measures 2 peppertree Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 750
Anthropologist's mapping project shows how Peru transformed after colonization 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 694
Feline and anthropomorphic 29 new geoglyphs discovered in Peru 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 581
Chilean voters reject conservative constitution, after defeating leftist charter last year 0 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 619
Former Haitian senator sentenced to life in prison in 2021 assassination of Haiti's president 0 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 542
Chileans Reject Second Proposed New Constitution in Referendum - Bloomberg Television 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 521
Essequibo dispute: Venezuela and Guyana agree not to use force 2 muriel_volestrangler Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 508
Guatemala: Challenge to Bernardo Aévalo election seen as coup attempt 0 muriel_volestrangler Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 695
Remembering Kissinger's Victims 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 624
ExxonMobil Wants to Start a War in South America 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 22 1829
Safety of Peru's land defenders in question after killing of Indigenous leader in the Amazon 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 855
Juanita Castro, anti-communist sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul, dies in Miami at 90 0 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 1556
Brazil deploys troops to Venezuela border 4 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 746
Alberto Fujimori: Peru's ex-president freed after 15 years in jail 1 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 668
Argentina's Mileise: Retailers report wholesale price hikes averaging 40%, ahead of shock devaluation 3 peppertree Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 1035
Maduro orders the 'immediate' exploitation of oil, gas and mines in Guyana's Essequibo 2 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 682
Barra, ex-justice minister and former pro-Nazi youth, for top legal post 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 625
Brazil's Lula snubs Milei's invite to presidential inauguration in Argentina 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 586
Kissinger's unwavering support for brutal regimes still haunts Latin America 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 9 1069

Latin America Continued...

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Mexico halts deportations and migrant transfers citing lack of funds 0 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 595
Maduro vote to claim Guyana's territory backfires as Venezuelans stay home 1 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 823
Venezuela referendum result: voters back bid to claim sovereignty over large swath of Guyana 3 malaise Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 925
Paraguay official resigns after signing agreement with fictional country 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 627
Authorities in Haiti hold former rebel leader Guy Philippe after the US repatriated him 0 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 1131
Argentina's Milei picks former neo-Nazi to key Treasury Solicitor General post 5 peppertree Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 904
US expels an ex-Chilean army officer accused of a folk singer's torture and murder 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 1019
Honduras: arrest warrant issued over murder of activist Berta Caceres 2 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 770
Lula in Berlin for first Brazil-Germany talks in eight years 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 570
President Nayib Bukele Resigns to Focus on Re-election Bid 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 739
Bolivia gets green light for full Mercosur membership 1 peppertree Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 623
From Vietnam to Videla: Henry Kissinger and the Forgotten Horrors of US Foreign Policy 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 8 777
US says it's ready to 'pause' sanctions relief for Venezuela unless further progress seen 3 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 906
Appeals court orders Texas to remove buoy barrier on the Rio Grande border 2 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 770
Ancient Cities Uncovered in the Amazon by Lidar Technology 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 16 964
Ghostly new figures appear in the waters of the Caribbean 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 15 1342
Should Venezuela invade its oil-rich neighbor? Maduro will put it to a vote Sunday 4 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 1131
Latin America remembers Kissinger's 'profound moral wretchedness' 0 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 576
Five journalists were shot in one day in Mexico, officials confirm 1 Eugene Nov 2023 Nov 2023 5 705
Mexico president asks lawmakers to let US military trainers into Mexico 1 Eugene Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 602
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