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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced the creation of The Cacique Fontoura reserve and the Aldeia Velha territory. They cover a combined total area of almost 132 square miles.
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Immigration officials sent dozens of Haitians back to their home country on Thursday, according to three government officials, in the first deportation flight conducted by the United States government in months to the country, which has been gripped by widespread violence.
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Haiti is on the verge of collapse, with little to no government. But many Haitians have already learned to live without the support of the state, as NPR discovered traveling to Cap-Haïtien.
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The Biden administration has reimposed crushing oil sanctions on Venezuela in a rebuke to President Nicolas Maduro’s attempts to consolidate his rule just six months after the U.S. eased restrictions in a bid to support now fading hopes for a democratic opening in the OPEC nation.
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The Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, citing analysis of the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, reports that some 326,000 migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua have arrived at airports in Florida over the past year
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Venezuela's president ordered the closure of his country's embassy in Ecuador in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito.
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's government faces a deadline this week — to commit to holding free and fair elections or face renewed U.S. oil sanctions.
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Though it could take years to wrest Haiti from violent gang rule, many Haitians — including in the private sector — insist the country's "structural violence" has to go, too.
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More than half of the estimated 7.7 million Venezuelans who have left their homeland during the complex crisis that has marked Nicolás Maduro’s 11-year presidency are estimated to be registered to vote in Venezuela. But government figures show only about 107,000 people are registered to vote outside the South American country
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The Mexican-born Chardy, who spoke and wrote in Spanish, English and French, awed his colleagues — and often the subjects of his stories — with his meticulous attention to fact and detail, voluminous note-taking and record-keeping, and a deep well of sources that spanned the world.
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A former career U.S. diplomat has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after admitting he worked for decades as a secret agent for communist Cuba.
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Argentina’s highest criminal court has reported a new development in the elusive quest for justice in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center headquarters, the deadliest attack in the country's history.