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  • Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's former president, center, departs from a scheduled surgery at the DF Star Hospital in Brasilia, Brazil, on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025. Bolsonaro's conviction on Sept. 11 - and 27-year prison sentence - end any slim chance he had of a legal or political comeback ahead of next year's elections.
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    Brazil’s Bolsonaro denies escape attempt, says ‘hallucinations’ drove him to tamper with ankle tag
  • Sargassum, a seaweed-like algae, covers a beach on June 15, 2019 in Tulum, Mexico. Mexico's Riviera Maya Caribbean tourist towns of Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum are being inundated with tons of foul-smelling seaweed-like algae called sargassum that has turned the pristine blue waters brown and littered the white sands beaches.
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    US economy – and seaweed – slow tourist flow to Mexico’s Caribbean resort town
  • Aerial picture of dredges at an illegal gold mining area in the Madre de Dios department, in Peru's southeastern Amazon region, on May 31, 2024.
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    Why illegal gold mining is overtaking cocaine as the drug of choice for traffickers in Latin America
  • Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro leaves the hospital where he went to undergo a skin surgery procedure in Brasilia, Brazil on September 14.
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    Brazil’s ex-president Bolsonaro arrested to prevent ‘attempted escape,’ court says
  • A view of a departures and arrivals screen at the Simon Bolivar International airport in Maiquetia, La Guaira State, Venezuela, in June 2024.
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    Several international airlines cancel their flights from Venezuela after US warning
  • A police patrol performs a raid under a bridge on Mucajai river to curb illegal activity surrounding Yanomami territory in Roraima, Brazil, Thursday, September 19, 2024. The First Capital Command (PCC), South America's largest criminal organization, is expanding into the vast Amazon basin.
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    Gangs expand to nearly half the towns in the Brazilian Amazon, report finds
  • The United States Marine Corps from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit deployed to the US Southern Command, and the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force are holding joint exercises across Trinidad and Tobago from Nov. 16–21, featuring day and night operations and helicopter drills.
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    What we know of the countries backing US military moves in the Caribbean
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  • Picture taken at Torres del Paine National Park in Chile's Magallanes Region in southern Chile, 400 km northwest of Punta Arenas, on January 6, 2024. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP) (Photo by JUAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Five tourists killed by snowstorm in Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park
  • Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a pro-government youth rally on November 13, 2025, in Venezuela, Caracas.
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    Is the US targeting a Venezuelan cartel that may not technically exist?
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  • Demonstrators carry a Mexican flag, a black and white version of a Mexican flag and a One Piece flag as riot control agents are sprayed on them during a protest against insecurity and corruption in the country, on Mexico City, Mexico, November 15, 2025.
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    Thousands protest crime and corruption in Mexico City as ‘Gen Z’ protests gain momentum
  • Haitian security personnel guard outside the US Embassy in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on April 29, 2019.
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    Suspected Haitian gang members exchange fire with Marines protecting US Embassy in Port-au-Prince
  • American soldiers detain a man caught looting during the invasion of Panama in 1989.
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    As Washington weighs options on Venezuela, US invasion of Panama offers an imperfect blueprint for military action
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  • Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on October 31, 2025.
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    CNN exclusive: Maduro tells people in the US to unite with Venezuela for peace of the Americas
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  • Man takes bus for joyride in Canada, turns down passenger with expired pass
  • How Venezuela’s aging Soviet-era military stacks up against US forces in the Caribbean
  • Members of the Bolivarian National Militia attend a military drill, amid rising tensions with the United States, in Naguanagua, Venezuela in October.
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    Venezuela announces ‘massive mobilization’ of military forces as America’s largest warship sails into region
  • Amid tensions with US, high inflation is back on Venezuela’s streets
  • At least 27 inmates killed by ‘asphyxiation’ in southern Ecuador in wave of prison violence
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