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Secret DEA files show agents joked about rape in WhatsApp chat. Then one of them was accused of it.
A group of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents boasted in a WhatsApp chat of their “world debauchery tour,” shared lurid images of their latest sexual conquests and at one point even joked about “forcible anal rape.”
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Venezuelans turn to odd jobs and gambling to stretch meager wages they hope will grow after election
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Puerto Rico bans discrimination against those who wear Afros and other hairstyles on diverse island
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The worst economic crisis in decades puts Argentine ingenuity to the test under President Milei
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Brazil’s Lula seeks to bolster support for global alliance against hunger
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Authorities say 600 Mexicans have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence
Guatemalan authorities say that nearly 600 Mexicans have fled across the border into Guatemala seeking refuge from drug cartel violence.
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Death toll rises to 6 in explosion and fire at tequila factory in Mexico
Rescue teams have found another body at a tequila distillery in Mexico a day after an explosion and fire, bringing the death toll to six. Two workers were injured.
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Death toll from fishing boat sunk in South Atlantic rises to 9 sailors. 4 are still missing at sea
Spanish authorities say at least nine sailors perished and four others are still missing in rough seas a day after a fishing vessel sank in the South Atlantic some 200 miles off the Falkland Islands.
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As Venezuela holds a presidential election Sunday, what does its religious landscape look like?
What do Venezuelans believe in? The government has not published official data for years, but academics rely on projections and field work to have a sense of the religious landscape.
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10 migrants drown in rushing river crossing Darien Gap in Panama
Ten migrants have drowned trying to cross a rushing river in Panama’s Darien Gap that borders Colombia.
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Tropical Storm Bud forms in the Eastern Pacific, off the coast of Mexico
Tropical Storm Bud has formed in the Eastern Pacific, off the coast of Mexico. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Wednesday the system was centered about 435 miles south-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja peninsula.
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Puerto Rico finalizes details of upcoming referendum on political status amid criticism over cost
Plans to hold a nonbinding referendum on Puerto Rico’s political status have come under scrutiny for its multimillion-dollar cost as election officials announced the order and description of choices on the upcoming ballot.
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Puerto Rican police investigate theft of $10,000 crown belonging to a Dominican beauty queen
Police say a $10,000 crown studded with multi-colored Swarovski crystals that belongs to a beauty queen from the Dominican Republic has been stolen at Puerto Rico’s main international airport.
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Explosion and fire hit tequila factory in Mexico, killing at least 5 workers, officials say
Mexican officials say an explosion and fire erupted inside a tequila factory, killing at least five workers and injuring two others at the site in the liquor’s namesake town in Jalisco state.
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A group of 2,000 migrants advance through southern Mexico in hopes of reaching the US
A group of 2,000 migrants from dozens of countries have set out on foot from Tapachula, a city in southern Mexico, as they attempt to reach the U.S..
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Cuban Olympic Committee demands the immediate exclusion of an athlete from refugee team
The Cuban Olympic Committee has demanded the “immediate exclusion” of an island athlete who was included by the organizers as part of a refugee team that will participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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Brazil to allow miles of selective logging in effort to preserve the Amazon
Brazil’s Forest Service has announced a plan to bring a massive area of Amazon rainforest currently vulnerable to illegal deforestation under national governance Tuesday.
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Police in St. Maarten detain suspect in shooting of politician whose wife was killed in the attack
Authorities in St. Maarten say they have detained a suspect linked to the recent shooting of a politician in an attack that killed his wife and shocked many in the normally peaceful Dutch Caribbean territory.
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Maduro seeks to shore up Venezuela military’s support ahead of vote threatening his hold on power
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is working hard to shore up the loyalty of the armed forces and keep top commanders in line, days ahead of a hotly disputed election that threatens the self-proclaimed socialist’s hold on power.
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Brazil’s Lula urges Venezuela’s Maduro to respect vote results, is ‘frightened’ by talk of bloodbath
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro should respect the results of the elections scheduled for Sunday.
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US ambassador announces $60 million in aid and new resources for police during visit to Haiti
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has announced $60 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Haiti during a trip to the troubled Caribbean country.
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Venezuelan opposition voters band to safeguard election, warning of the ruling party’s tricks
Unlike previous elections in Venezuela, thousands of supporters of the typically fractured opposition have agreed to organize, mobilize and support voters during the highly anticipated July 28 presidential contest.
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Hundreds of migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border
Hundreds of migrants from around a dozen countries have left from Mexico’s southern border on foot in an attempt to make it to the U.S. border.
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Colombia’s president pushes for health and labor changes as he opens new session of congress
Colombian President Gustavo Petro says his administration will propose legislation aimed at overhauling the nation’s health sector and will also pursue changes to labor laws.
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Pope Francis accepts the resignation of a Colombian bishop mentioned in a book on sexual abuse
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Colombian bishop who was mentioned in a book about priests and bishops who have allegedly committed acts of sexual abuse.
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At least 3 dead in Haiti after boat catches fire during escape attempt
Officials in Haiti say at least three people have died and up to 40 remain missing after a boat in the waters off northern Haiti caught fire with up to 80 Haitians on board trying to escape to the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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Mexican president calls Donald Trump ‘a friend’ and says he’ll warn him against closing border
Mexico’s president has called Donald Trump “a friend,” and says he will write the former U.S. president a letter to warn him against pledging to close the border or blaming migrants for bringing drugs into the United States.
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At least three dead in Haiti after boat catches fire during escape attempt
Officials in Haiti say at least three people have died and up to 40 remain missing after a boat in the waters off northern Haiti caught fire with up to 80 Haitians on board trying to escape to the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
July 12-18, 2024
Soccer fans revel in their country’s Copa America triumph after Argentina won their record 16th Copa America title, defeating Colombia 1-0.
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Powerful 7.4-magnitude quake strikes north Chile near Argentine border. No reports of major damage
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake has hit northern Chile near its border with Argentina. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck at at 9:51 p.m.
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Panama president says repatriation of migrants crossing the Darien Gap will be voluntary
Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino says that migrants entering Panama through the treacherous Darien Gap will only be sent back to their countries if they agree to do so, potentially diminishing the impact of stricter immigration enforcement Mulino had pushed.
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30 years after attack on Argentina’s Jewish center, Milei makes promises. But the anguish remains
On each passing anniversary of the deadly 1994 attack against Argentina’s largest Jewish community center, Diana Malamud said she endures a brutal “Groundhog’s Day.”
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US announces $325 million in funding to boost Puerto Rico solar projects as power outages persist
The U.S. government says $325 million in federal funds will be available for solar and battery storage installations across Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory struggles with chronic power outages.
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Dominican activists protest against a new criminal code that would maintain a total abortion ban
Activists in the Dominican Republic are protesting against a bill for a new criminal code that would retain a total abortion ban.
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Haiti’s prime minister orders gangs to drop weapons and promises to take back control of the capital
Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has ordered gangs to surrender their weapons and acknowledged how dangerous life in Haiti’s capital and beyond has become.
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Gunmen in Mexico kill 6 people, including a boy, as mass killings of families increase
Six members of two families were killed in Mexico’s violent state of Guanajuato, the second massacre of a family in a month there, authorities confirmed.
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UN climate talks leader says financial help for poor nations is urgent goal of negotiations
The head of upcoming climate negotiations is telling world leaders that a new financial aid package for poor and disaster-struck nations is the urgent and make-or-break goal of United Nations talks this fall.
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Guatemalan family seeks return of relative’s body more than a decade after he disappeared in Mexico
Nearly a decade after Guatemalan authorities were told that Mexico had sent the wrong body to a Guatemalan family searching for their missing teenage relative, that unidentified body is still buried in Guatemala and the family’s relative is waiting in a Mexico City morgue.
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Brazilian researchers discover dinosaur fossil after heavy rains in Rio Grande do Sul
A team of Brazilian scientists has discovered the fossilized skeleton of what they believe is one of the world’s oldest dinosaurs.
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El Salvador has arrested 3,319 minors and sentenced almost 600 as part of anti-gang crackdown
A rights report says the government of El Salvador has arrested 3,319 underage suspects and sentenced 579 during the harsh 2 1/2 year-old crackdown on street gangs.
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