Latin America

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Ex-CIA officer accused of abusing women may walk free because of how feds searched his phones

Writer Giaconda Belli in Madrid in 2018.

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Latino

Writer Gioconda Belli, stripped of citizenship by Nicaragua's government, wins poetry prize

Inmates identified by authorities as gang members are seated in the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 15, 2023.

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Latino

At least 150 people jailed under El Salvador's emergency powers have died, new report says

Mauricio Funes in San Salvador, El Salvador

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World

Ex-El Salvador president sentenced to 14 years for negotiating with gangs

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico City on June 22, 2022.

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Immigration

Mexico's president urges Latinos not to vote for DeSantis, slams hardline immigration stance

Farm workers wait in line to refuel their tractors on the highway to Pinar del Rio, Guanajay, Cuba, on May 18, 2023.

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Latino

Cuba's rural towns are hit hard with fuel shortages

Haitian migrants walk through a river as they cross the Darien Gap

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Immigration

Senior Biden officials are pushing to send U.S. troops to South American jungle to help curb human smuggling

Vinicius Soccer Racism

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World

Star player says Spanish soccer 'belongs to racists' after abuse during game

A woman cries following a stampede during a football match between Alianza and FAS at Cuscatlan stadium in San Salvador, El Salvador, on May 20, 2023.

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Latin America

At least 12 dead in crush at soccer stadium in El Salvador

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel at the Russian-Cuban Business Forum

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World

Russia and Cuba ink deals to revitalize island’s ailing economy

Immigration

Why no post-Title 42 border surge? Shelter operators in Mexico say some migrants are rethinking how to cross the border

Latino

A Mexican woman who killed the man who raped her was sentenced to 6 years in prison

Ecuadorian president ends impeachment proceedings against him by dissolving National Assembly

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Latino

Ecuadorian president ends impeachment proceedings by dissolving National Assembly

Asylum-seekers wait in a makeshift camp between border walls on May 13, 2023 in San Diego.

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Immigration

Border agents released more than 6,400 migrants without court dates before being stopped by court order

Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso attends a ceremony at the government palace in Quito on May 11, 2023.

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Latino

Ecuador's showdown between president, lawmakers could result in either's ouster

The US Department of Health and Human Services building is shown in Washington, DC, 21 July 2007. The department, which began operations in 1980, has more than 67,000 employees.

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Immigration

Migrant teen from Honduras dies in custody of Florida facility sheltering unaccompanied minors for HHS

Relatives of missing people during a protest to demand justice on Mother's Day, in Mexico City on May 10, 2023.

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Latino

Mexico to launch database tool of over 10,000 missing people

Image: Migrants who plan to start walking across the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S. gather at the trailhead camp in Acandi, Colombia, on May 9, 2023.

Ivan Valencia / AP

Immigration

Migrants in the treacherous Darien jungle find a more organized route

Title 42 expires

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Immigration

Migrants met by Border Patrol vans shortly after Title 42 lifted

Paramedics carry an injured migrant following a deadly fire in the immigration station in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on March 28, 2023.

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Immigration

Mexico suspends operations at some migrant centers pending review after deadly fire

Border Patrol apprehends migrant men early Thursday in Granjeno, Texas.

Immigration

An influx of migrants is already at the border ahead of Title 42 ending

Relatives of disappeared people take part in a collective search in Valle de las Palmas, on the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico, on April 28, 2023.

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Latino

Mexico group says mom searching for her missing child has been killed

Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro in Doral, Fla., on Feb. 3, 2023.

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Coronavirus

Brazilian police raid Bolsonaro's home as part of Covid vaccine data investigation

Immigration

U.S., Mexico agree on tighter immigration policies at border as Covid restrictions end

World

132 arrested in global raids targeting one of the world's most notorious crime groups

Firefighters and Mexican soldiers stand during a rescue for migrants from an immigration station in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

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Immigration & The Border

In Mexico migrant center fire, guards' actions seen as key to who lived, died

Rustic boat at the bottom of the ocean near the beach of Marianao in Havana, Cuba, likely used by Cuban migrants trying to reach Florida.

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Immigration & The Border

U.S. urges organizations to sponsor immigrants to stem 'dangerous' migration

Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel

Ariana Cubillos / AP file

Latino

Cuba's National Assembly ratifies President Díaz-Canel for new five-year term

An honor guard holds Brazilian flag before President Joe Biden's meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Washington on Feb. 10, 2023.

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Culture Matters

Are Brazilians Hispanic? Many say 'yes,' report says

Miguel Diaz-Canel during the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States Summit in Buenos Aires

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Latino

Cuban President Díaz-Canel expected to win second term despite crises