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News Articles: Latin America

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at the National Congress building in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025.

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  • Latin America

Brazil's former president faces charges over alleged coup plot

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been charged for allegedly helping to mastermind far right coup plot to upset the country's 2022 election result.

February 18, 2025
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
A worker picks roses at a flower farm in Chia, Cundinamarca department, Colombia, on Jan. 29.

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  • Environment

The truth behind your Valentine's Day flowers

The beauty of bouquets comes with a cost to the cloud forests of Colombia, the largest exporter of flowers and foliage to the United States.

February 14, 2025
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By:
  • Ruth Sherlock
A screenshot of a video from the Associated Press shows Adrián Simancas kayaking in the Strait of Magellan, moments before a whale surfaced and briefly engulfed him.

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  • Animals

Did a whale swallow a kayaker? The truth behind the viral video

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

February 14, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A firefighter works inside a bus that fell from a bridge, at the site of the fatal bus crash on the outskirts of Guatemala City, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025.

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  • Latin America

More than 50 are dead after a bus plunged into a gorge in Guatemala

At least 55 people are dead after their bus plunged into a gorge and landed under a bridge Monday on the outskirts of Guatemala's capital.

February 11, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Haitians deported from the Dominican Republic get out of trucks in Carrizal, Dominican Republic, on the border with Haiti on Jan. 30.

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  • World

Haitian migrants share stories of abuse as Dominican Republic ramps up deportations

The alleged human rights violations range from unauthorized home raids to racial profiling to deporting breastfeeding mothers and unaccompanied minors.

February 11, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Voters mark ballots for their candidate of choice during the presidential election in Quito, Ecuador on Feb. 9, 2025.

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  • Latin America

Ecuador's conservative incumbent and a leftist lawyer advance to presidential runoff

Ecuador will choose its next president in a April runoff election after conservative incumbent Daniel Noboa and leftist lawyer Luisa González garnered enough votes Sunday to beat 14 other candidates.

February 10, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Mexican National Guard members patrol along the Mexico-US border in Ciudad Juarez on Wednesday.

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  • World

Mexico deploys the first National Guard troops to U.S. border after tariff threat

Trump said he would delay imposing tariffs on Mexico for at least a month. In exchange, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum promised to send the country's National Guard to reinforce the border.

February 06, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after a tour of a migrant return center and a demonstration of a dog trained to sniff out narcotics, at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City on Wednesday.

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  • World

Guatemala gives U.S. another migrant deportation deal

The agreements potentially help the Trump administration address a key sticking point in immigration enforcement since not everyone in the U.S. illegally can be easily sent back home.

February 06, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
The Department of Homeland Security released photos of migrants as they boarded planes for Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

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  • News

The first group of migrants has been sent to Guantánamo, but legal challenges loom

President Trump aims to deport up to 30,000 migrant detainees to a holding facility there, despite the questionable legality of that move.

February 05, 2025
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By:
  • Sacha Pfeiffer
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with President Nayib Bukele at his residence at Lake Coatepeque in El Salvador, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025.

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  • Latin America

Rubio says El Salvador will house deportees from U.S., including Americans

A U.S. official said the Trump administration had no plans to try to deport American citizens. The U.S. government cannot deport American citizens and such a move would be met with legal challenges.

February 04, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
The flags of Mexico, Canada and the United States are shown near the Ambassador Bridge, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Detroit.

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  • Latin America

Trump puts Canada and Mexico tariffs on hold

U.S. tariffs on Mexico and Canada will be put on hold for 30 days.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Tara Neill,
  • Eyder Peralta,
  • and 1 more
Google says it will rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America for U.S. map users, prompting criticism from Mexico.

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  • World

Who will call it the Gulf of America? A look at this and other naming disputes

Google says it will rename the Gulf of Mexico on its U.S. maps, and Mexico is pushing back. This wouldn't be the first body of water to have different names according to different countries.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in on Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

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  • Latin America

Three things to know about Rubio's first international trip

Marco Rubio heads to Latin America on his first trip as secretary of state, including Panama, where President Trump wants control of the canal.

February 01, 2025
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By:
  • Michele Kelemen and
  • Eyder Peralta
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro arrives at the opening ceremony of COP16, a United Nations' biodiversity conference, in Cali, Colombia, Oct. 20, 2024.

Tagged as: 

  • Politics

White House says Colombia agrees to take deported migrants after Trump tariff threat

The White House claimed victory in a showdown with Colombia over accepting flights of deported migrants from the U.S. on Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump threatened various sanctions.

January 27, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A wounded security officer looks on after being shot by armed gangs at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024.

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  • Latin America

U.N. chief warns gangs could overrun Haiti's capital without additional support

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a report that gangs in Haiti could overrun the capital, leading to a complete breakdown of government, without additional international support.

January 23, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
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