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Violence is traumatizing Haitian children. Now the country’s breaking its taboo on mental health services.
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Haitians demand the resignation and arrest of the country’s police chief after a new gang attack
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A magnitude 6.4 earthquake wakes people on the Mexico-Guatemala border
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In progressive Argentina, the LGBTQ+ community says President Milei has turned back the clock
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Flooding forecast to worsen in Brazil’s south, where many who remain are poor
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Panama’s next president says he’ll try to shut down one of the world’s busiest migration routes
Panama is on the verge of a dramatic change to its immigration policy that could reverberate from the dense Darien jungle to the U.S. border.
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Mass shooting causes deaths in crime-ridden township on southern edge of Mexico City, officials say
Authorities in Mexico say a mass shooting in a mountain township beset by crime just south of Mexico City resulted in several deaths.
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Police arrest brother and lawyer of Peru’s president over alleged influence peddling
Peruvian authorities have arrested President Dina Boluarte’s brother and her lawyer over influence-peddling accusations.
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8 people were killed in a shooting attack at a bar in Ecuador, local police say
Police say eight people have been killed in a shooting attack on a birthday party in a bar in Ecuador, which has suffered an escalating wave of gang-fueled violence.
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Shunned for centuries, Vodou grows powerful as Haitians seek solace from unrelenting gang violence
Shunned publicly by politicians and intellectuals for centuries, Vodou is transforming into a more powerful and accepted religion across Haiti, where its believers were once persecuted.
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Wildfire in Canada’s British Columbia forces thousands to evacuate. Winds push smoke into Alberta
Canadian authorities are urging all remaining residents in a town in British Columbia to leave immediately, despite improving weather conditions, after thousands were evacuated due to a fast-growing wildfire.
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Mexico’s ruling party presidential candidate slips, says outgoing leader led by ‘personal ambition’
Mexico’s ruling party presidential candidate slipped up during a campaign speech Friday and said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was motivated by “personal ambition,” but later acknowledged the phrase could have been misinterpreted.
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Mother’s Day is a sad reminder for the mothers of Mexico’s over 100,000 missing people
Hundreds of mothers of missing people, other relatives and activists have marched through downtown Mexico City to mark a sad commemoration of Mother’s Day.
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A train in central Buenos Aires strikes a boxcar on the track, injuring dozens
Authorities in Argentina say at least 90 people were injured in Buenos Aires when a passenger train struck an empty box car on the tracks and derailed.
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Grupo Frontera’s hybrid Mexican music went global. On a new album, their genre-melding has no limits
A lot can happen in two years. Just ask Grupo Frontera, who released their highly anticipated sophomore album, “Jugando Que No Pasa Nada,” Friday.
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Inside a makeshift shelter saving hundreds of dogs from floods in southern Brazil
Hundreds of volunteers have set up a makeshift dog shelter in an abandoned, roofless warehouse in the Brazilian city of Canoas, one of the hardest hit by floods in southern Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state.
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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
May 3-9, 2024
A rare snowfall blankets Chile’s capital, Madonna’s biggest-ever concert turns Rio’s Copacabana beach into a dance floor, and floods continue to ravage Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state.
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The CDC issues a report about infections from stem-cell treatments in Mexico
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a report about three cases of infections apparently linked to stem-cell treatments American patients received in Mexico.
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Guyana says it gave permission for the US military to fly 2 powerful jets over the capital
Guyana’s government says it gave permission for the U.S. military to fly two powerful F/A-18F Super Hornet jets over its capital to demonstrate the close military and other forms of cooperation between this oil-exporting South American nation and the United States.
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Caramelo, the Brazilian horse stranded on a roof by floods, is rescued after stirring the nation
A horse that was perilously stranded on a rooftop by Brazil’s deadly floods has been rescued. The horse nicknamed Caramelo was one of many animals rescuers have tried help.
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Mexico’s president accuses press and volunteer searchers for missing people of ‘necrophilia’
The administration of Mexico’s president has accused the press and volunteer searchers who look for the bodies of missing people of “necrophilia.”
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Argentina labor unions’ 24-hour strike against President Milei paralyzes daily life
Argentina’s biggest trade unions have mounted one of their fiercest challenges to the libertarian government of President Javier Milei.
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Puerto Rico declares state of emergency as persistent rains unleash heavy flooding and landslides
Puerto Rico has declared a state of emergency following heavy rains, widespread flooding and landslides in the U.S. territory. One person is reported missing. Gov.
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Ramón Fonseca, partner in firm at center of “Panama Papers” scandal, dies
Ramón Fonseca, a partner in the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the center of the “Panama Papers” scandal, has died.
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Paralympian loses medals and equipment in Brazilian floods but is improvising to qualify for Paris
Vanderson Chaves has faced many challenges in more than a decade as a Paralympic fencer but none as fearsome as the massive floods in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state.
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Transitional council in Haiti embraces new changes following turmoil as gang violence grips country
A transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for Haiti is changing the way it operates in a move that is surprising many as gang violence consumes the country.
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Nicaragua cancels a controversial Chinese interoceanic canal concession after nearly a decade
After nearly a decade, Nicaragua’s congress has finally canceled a controversial canal concession granted to a Chinese businessman that critics said endangered the environment and threatened to displace rural communities.
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With inflation soaring, Argentina will start printing 10,000 peso notes
Prices in Argentina have surged so dramatically in recent months that the government has multiplied the size of its biggest bank note by five — to 10,000 pesos, worth about $10.
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Mexico hit by hours of rolling blackouts due to high temperatures and low power generation
Mexico has been hit by hours of rolling blackouts late Tuesday due to high temperatures and temporary drops in electrical power generation.
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Spanish prosecutors recommend 2nd investigation into Shakira’s taxes be thrown out
Spanish state prosecutors have recommended that an investigating judge shelve a probe into another alleged case of tax fraud by pop star Shakira.
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Mexico tightens travel rules on Peruvians in a show of visa diplomacy to slow migration to US
Mexico has begun requiring visas for Peruvians in response to a major influx of migrants from the South American country.
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Mother of Australian surfers killed in Mexico gives moving tribute to sons at a beach in San Diego
The mother of two Australian surfers killed in Mexico has delivered a moving tribute to her sons at a beach in San Diego.
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From flooding in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather seems nearly everywhere
In a world growing increasingly accustomed to wild weather swings, the last few days and weeks have seemingly taken those environmental extremes to a new level.
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Panama’s new president-elect, José Raúl Mulino, was a late entry in the race
In a historic and tumultuous election in Panama, José Raúl Mulino has landed in the role of president-elect despite not even expecting to be the candidate a few months ago.
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Madonna’s biggest-ever concert transforms Rio’s Copacabana beach into a massive dance floor
The performance was the last show of The Celebration Tour, her first retrospective, which kicked off in October in London.
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Mexican officials say 3 bodies recovered in Baja California during search for 3 missing foreigners
Mexican authorities say three bodies have been recovered in an area of Baja California near where two Australians and an American went missing last weekend.
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13 killed as heavy rains unleash landslide in Haiti, force planes near Puerto Rico to land elsewhere
Officials say at least 13 people died in northern Haiti following two days of heavy rains. Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency says the majority of deaths were caused by a landslide in the southeastern region of the coastal city of Cap-Haitien.
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Families claim Americans are ‘unjustly detained’ in Turks and Caicos for possession of ammunition
The families of four Americans charged in Turks and Caicos for carrying ammunition continued to claim on Thursday that their loved ones were “unjustly detained” on the island awaiting legal proceedings.
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Southern Brazil has been hit by the worst floods in more than 80 years. At least 39 people have died
The civil defense agency in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul says heavy rains have killed 39 people, with another 68 still missing.
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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
April 16 - May 2, 2024
Brazilian singer Catia de Franca performs her blend of psychedelic rock with traditional rhythms and modernist poetry.
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