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COMMENTARY The Biden Administration has decided to re-impose U.S. oil sanctions on Venezuela — but either way, it looks like the dictatorship will have its way for now.
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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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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.
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Pope Francis has met with a leader of Brazil’s Yanomami people. The shaman, Davi Kopenawa, says he asked for papal backing for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s efforts to reverse decades of exploitation of the Amazon and better protect its indigenous peoples.
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Officials are eager to see the council in place as Haiti staggers under relentless gang violence that continues to choke the Port-au-Prince capital and surrounding communities.
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The attorney general says Tareck El Aissami will make his first court appearance Tuesday on charges that include treason, money laundering and criminal association.
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COMMENTARY It's Pan American Week — but there's not a whole lot to celebrate in the Americas these days. Maybe the Americas Act can rekindle some hemispheric purpose.