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Gunmen kill a Mexican fisheries leader who complained of drug cartel extortion and illegal fishing 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 666
At least 200 crocodiles crawl into cities as heavy rains hit northern Mexico, near Texas 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 821
Bukele Lobbyist Received $325,000 in Three Months to Court MAGA Politicians 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 772
Colombia releases former AUC commander from prison 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 0 507
Rio's 'narco-pentecostal' gangs accused of ordering Catholic churches to close 2 Eugene Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 920
A post in admiration for our Latin American & Caribbean brothers and sisters. 10 Marcus IM Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 1220
Tonight on PBS at 8:00 Central Time, "NOVA 'Ancient Builders of the Amazon' " 5 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 897
Wayne S. Smith, diplomat who resigned over U.S. policy toward Cuba, dies at 91 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 1368
American mountaineer found mummified in Peru 22 years after vanishing 3 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 1691
Controversial hacktivists may have prompted El Salvador's censorship of Telegram 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 622
One dead as boat with 20 migrants sinks off Colombia 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 528
Sinaloa Cartel security chief arrested in northern Mexico 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 569
Panama is using barbed wire to try to block a major route for U.S.-bound migrants 0 Eugene Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 1346
Peru's Congress approves statute of limitations for crimes against humanity committed before 2002 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 1117
El Salvador's president threatens to use gang-crackdown style tactics against price gougers 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 1141
Archaeologists Found a Stunning Ancient Rock That May Reveal a Lost Civilization 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 14 1478
Mara Corina Machado: What the Mainstream Media Isn't Saying About Her (Venezuela) 3 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 1125
Lula to Recreate Commission of Political Deaths and Disappearances Dissolved by Bolsonaro 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 919
Deforestation in Colombia fell to historic lows in 2023, environment minister says 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 631
Can foreigners handle the heat? Mexicans divided on milder food for tourists 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 779
University of Sao Paulo Student who Diverted $180,000 from Graduation Is Convicted of Fraud 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 799
Sao Paulo Government Rewards Police Officers for Convincing Drug Users to Enter Rehabilitation 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 618
Milei Takes His Far-Right Roadshow to Lula's Backyard in Brazil 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 605
Venezuela authorities investigate Colombia paramilitary claims of plot to destabilize government 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 735
Bolivian President Alleges Failed 'Coup' Attempt All About Lithium 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 648
'We sell it in secret, like drugs': Brazil's appetite for shark meat puts species under threat 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 783
A court rules that pollution has violated the rights of a river that runs through Ecuador's capital 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 9172
Indigenous Land Rights in Argentina Under Fire: The Significance of the Mendoza Resolution at Domestic and International 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 544
16th-Century Skeletons of Children Infected With Smallpox Discovered in Peru 4 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 8 1252
Brazil's Bolsonaro indicted for alleged money laundering for undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia 1 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 745

Latin America Continued...

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Argentina's Mileise: Auto industry collapses as sales register their worst June in 20 years 2 peppertree Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 808
Four Out of Ten Rape Victims Are Black Children and Adolescents in Brazil 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 598
Lambayeque: Ceremonial temple discovered in the Los Paredones Archaeological Complex of the Other Side - Las nimas de Z 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 632
Mexico evacuates even sea turtle eggs from beaches as Hurricane Beryl approaches 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 10465
Peru Puts Political Scion Keiko Fujimori on Trial for Laundering 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 543
Bolivia Failed right-wing coup attempt 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 636
President Lula: Central Bank Should Serve Public, Not Markets 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 502
'El Mochito' Confessed To Being A Rapist And Seconds Later His Head, Hands, Feet And Genitals Are Cut Off In Tabasco. 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 0 964
Armed Men Kill Wounded Patient Aboard Ambulance, Shoot Paramedic In Sinaloa. 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 590
Lula to steer clear of visiting Argentine leader 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 570
Mexican gang fight leaves pile of bodies 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 631
Opinion: Bukele's Ideology Is Opportunism 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 9865
Colombian dens of iniquity recycled to serve victims 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 577
4,000-year-old rock art in Venezuela may be from a 'previously unknown' culture 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 12 947
Now that we're living in a dictatorship, when do we get universal healthcare and ed like Cuba's dictatorship? 3 Marcus IM Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 861
La Nina threatens Latin America with hurricanes and droughts, experts say 0 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 599
Guatemalan woman shot by Nebraska neighbor 'felt like this was the end' as she rushed to save grandson 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 875
Haiti gang violence displaced more than 300,000 children this year, UN says 1 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 670
Argentina: A divided legacy marks 50 years since Peron's death 1 peppertree Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 1030
Amid an economic crisis, Argentina's Milei made 9 trips abroad in less than 7 months 1 peppertree Jun 2024 Jul 2024 1 645
REVEALED NI fire chief sex fiend wanted to work in Brazilian orphanage 2 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 9708
Panama to shut down Darien Gap route in deal that will see US pay to repatriate migrants 1 Eugene Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 802
Ahead of election, Venezuela's Maduro says he has agreed to resume negotiations with United States 0 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 0 588
Lies and Damned Lies About Venezuela's Presidential Elections 1 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 762
Argentine government closes state news agency Telam 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 581
Puerto Rico will include status plebiscite in November's general elections 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 566
Stolen at birth, an adoptee sues Chile over thousands of similar dictatorship-era crimes 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 0 543
Judge in Ecuador orders judges, attorneys and officials held in jail as part of corruption probe 0 Judi Lynn Jul 2024 Jul 2024 0 651
Cuba's first transgender athlete shows the progress and challenges faced by LGBTQ people 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jul 2024 3 743
Colombian rebel group agrees to 'unilateral ceasefire' and release of captives 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 600

Latin America Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Remembering the 'Stronismo': How ghost of a brutal dictator haunts Paraguay 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 914
Former Honduran president sentenced to 45 years for helping traffickers get tons of cocaine into U.S. 2 peppertree Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 621
Trial starts over the 2022 assassination attempt of Argentina's Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 598
Haiti residents cautiously hopeful as first Kenyan police deploy 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 576
Bolivia coup attempt: ex-army chief given six months 'preventive detention', says prosecutor 0 Eugene Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 562
Panama Papers: Court acquits all 28 charged with money laundering 0 Eugene Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 587
Opinion:The context of the Bolivian coup attempt 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 620
Planting giant cactus to stave off desertification in Brazil 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 663
Bolivia president denies any involvement or prior knowledge of failed coup 3 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 628
Magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits Peru, no deaths reported 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 517
Soldiers surround Bolivian presidential palace in attempted coup 11 muriel_volestrangler Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 1599
Cuba Expert William LeoGrande: "The U.S. Is Waging Economic War against Cuba" 4 Marcus IM Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 801
NYT Ramps Up Venezuela Propaganda Ahead of Elections 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 744
DINA: Pinochet's Directorate for Murder and Torture 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 874
You may want to know why killer gangs destroy pine forests and assassinate activist defenders 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 15 1282
New study reaffirms Indigenous lands key to mitigating climate change in Brazil 10 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 1552
Amnesty International slams Argentina's 'regressive' turn on gender, environmental issues 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 669
He Tried Ayahuasca! Colombian President Petro Talks About His Psychedelic Experiences Experiences 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 662
Panamanian Workers Are Being Punished By Their Government For Leading Anti-Mining Protests 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 528
Brazil: Lula visits ailing linguist Noam Chomsky and other "Over 90s" 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 577
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