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Ancient DNA reveals secrets of Maya sacrifices and links to modern descendants 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 981
Minister defends Canadian navy ship's visit to Cuba with Russian vessels in port 4 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 760
Solving the mystery of the Mayan mirrors 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 9 878
In Peru's Madre de Dios, deforestation from mining brings huge economic losses 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 494
Peru: Congress Ramps Up Assault on Democratic System 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 482
US suspends inspections of avocados, mangoes in Mexico's Michoacan state over security concerns 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 559
Bolivia's battle to decriminalise coca leaf 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 622
Russian warships leave Cuba after five days 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 564
Peru slams Israeli massacre of Palestinians in Rafah 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 630
In Bolivia, a new industry dawns in the threatened Pantanal wetlands 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 548
Tears and laughter: Peruvian mamas embody the spirit of Machu Picchu 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 601
Peru's Unpopular Politicians Are Taking the State Down With Them 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 623
Peru to probe child sex abuse claims at Indigenous schools 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 515
Landmark Land Deal: Japanese Firm's Major Move in Uruguay 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 618
Why Brazil's Draconian Abortion Bill Amounts To Child Abuse Of Underage Girls 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 588
A Verdict Against Chiquita's Impunity in Colombia 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 612
(MAY 14, 2024) NYT's Bad Reporting on Brazil Predictably Used by GOP to Attack Democracy There 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 743
High court rejects latest emergency declaration but Noboa says troops will remain in the streets 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 560
President Milei's surprising devotion to Judaism and Israel provokes tension in Argentina and beyond 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 930
As Apparel Makers Move Work From China to Central America, Jobs Could Dent Migration Crisis 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 6541
Wanna be a good dad? A 'School for Men' teaches diapering, ponytail making 1 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 659
'We fight day and night': The Amazon women guarding their rainforest from mining 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 1037
Brazil's Lula stands by finance minister but rejects spending cuts targeting the poor 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 546
Why banana brand Chiquita was found liable for deaths in the Colombia's Civil War 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 789
'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 1 580
Tensions Rise with U.S. Submarine's Arrival in Cuban Waters 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 987
Milei and Lula's frosty relationship was in full display at G7 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 659
Chile to join humanitarian demining in Ukraine 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 575
Outraged Brazilian women stage protests against bill to equate late abortions with homicide 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 592
Brazil asks Argentina for help in locating Bolsonaro coup fugitives 5 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 1066

Latin America Continued...

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Thousands of displaced residents in southern Mexico fear returning to their homes after violence 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 6120
Colombia plans to provide medical treatment to Palestinian children injured in Israel-Hamas war 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 571
Spiraling criminal violence causes morgue to overflow, foul odors to spread in Ecuadorian city 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 657
Just 6 months in, Milei is dismantling Argentina's memory policy 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 770
Argentina approves bill to slash workers' rights as riot cops clash with protesters 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 752
How hard is it to root out corruption? Ask Guatemala's new president. 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 601
Carrefour's Bold Leap into Brazil's Urban Future with a Record-Setting Skyscraper 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 598
Brazilian Deputies Approve Proposal that Provides for Suspending Parliamentarians for Fighting 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 622
Duck and Cover time: Russian ships, submarine arrive in Cuba 8 Marcus IM Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 1352
US Jury Holds Chiquita Liable for Colombian Death Squad's Murder of Banana Workers 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 8 840
Argentine playwright Roberto Cossa, co-founder of country's "New Realism" movement, dies at 89 1 peppertree Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 1059
'The gangs never used to kill children, now they do': how cocaine created Argentina's first narcocity 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 817
Milei's reform package squeaks by in key first Senate vote 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 665
Peru extends pre-trial detention of former president Pedro Castillo 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 632
Voting machine contract under scrutiny following discrepancies in Puerto Rico's primaries 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 689
Colombian man who drugged, robbed US soldiers sentenced to 48 years By Riley Ceder 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 746
Over 4,000 residents flee a town in southern Mexico after armed gangs start shooting, burn homes 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 763
A Dictatorship Is Born 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 21 1220
'Let's Maintain Bruno Pereira's Legacy', Says the Indigenist's Widow 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 621
Landfills Stain the Landscape in the Amazon 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 650
Gunmen open fire on students at a rural University of Panama campus, killing 1 and wounding another 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 625
Nearly 50 years after her death, Uruguay lays to rest a woman disappeared by its dictatorship 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 586
El Salvador Braces for Five More Years of the World's Self-Proclaimed "Coolest Dictator" 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 917
There's a Hidden Water Cycle in The Amazon We Barely Know Anything About 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 857
Haiti's new prime minister hospitalized days after being selected to lead country 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 742
Argentina's far-right president poised to shut down anti-gender violence agency 0 Eugene Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 715
Russian warships will arrive in Havana next week, say Cuban officials citing 'friendly relations' 9 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 1457
Colombia begins exploring 'holy grail of shipwrecks' 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 819
U.S. man sentenced to 42 years in prison for femicide in Colombia 3 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 896
Feature: A Cuban cultural anthropologist's academic quest in China 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 683

Latin America Continued...

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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 1126
A smiling Milei attends Bukele's new inauguration 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 659
Ecuadorian alternate lawmaker and his wife shot dead at circus function 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 622
USS George Washington crosses into Chilean waters 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 714
Cuba's high-level diplomat to make first-ever official visit to S. Korea 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 8318
Gang members at prison operated call center and monitored crocodile-filled lake, Guatemala officials say 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 821
Takeaways from AP report on the DEA's secret spying program in Venezuela 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 663
A scientist, a leftist and a former Mexico City mayor. Who is Claudia Sheinbaum? 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 906
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 1030
Why Mexico City's thirst is causing it to sink 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 770
1,000-year-old mummy with full head of hair and intact jaw found in Peru 2 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 875
Mexican officials again criticize volunteer searcher after she finds more bodies 1 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 13 1043
Brazil-US Relations Were Born under the Monroe Doctrine and Changed Paradigm in the 20th Century 0 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 572
Sexist tropes and misinformation swirl online as Mexico prepares to elect its first female leader 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 596
Amid 18% hunger, Argentina's Milei administration releases thousands of tons of food it had sequestered 1 peppertree May 2024 May 2024 8 892
Mothers of Plaza de Mayo co-founder and longtime leader Nora Cortinas dies at 94 0 peppertree May 2024 May 2024 3 629
Mayoral candidate shot dead at election campaign rally in Mexico's Guerrero 1 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 5 628
Brazil Withdraws Ambassador from Israel Without Naming a Replacement 2 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 3 621
From 2 yrs. ago: State of Exception Confirms Divide between US Dems and GOP over Bukele 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 1 619
In El Salvador, Fear and Silence Shroud the Dead 0 Judi Lynn May 2024 May 2024 1 582
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