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  • Paraguay's President Santiago Pena leaves after a meeting with Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez (out of frame) at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, on September 19, 2026.
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    How Paraguay’s banking crisis toppled a staunch Trump ally in Latin America
  • <p>Experts say this rebar fabrication issue extended across public and private buildings in one town on Venezuela’s coast, and may have weakened the structures against forceful earthquakes</p>
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  • Supporters of LGBT rights take part in the first annual Pride Arts Festival on July 28, 2018, in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
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    A gay sex ban is overturned in Trinidad and Tobago. What the ruling says about LGBTQ+ rights and post-colonial identity
  • Pope Leo XIV is welcomed by Argentina's President Javier Milei upon his arrival at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery International Airport in Buenos Aires on Sunday, November 8.
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    Pope Leo urges President Milei, a Trump ally, to ‘safeguard democracy’ on arrival in Argentina
  • Grizzly Bear standing in Sedge Grass, Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary, Canada.
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    Multiple grizzlies may have attacked mother and daughter found dead, Canadian authorities say
  • The Minister for Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Oscar Puente, appears at his own request before the Standing Committee of the Congress of Deputies, in the Constitutional Chamber of the Congress, in Madrid, on November 3.
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    Spanish transport minister resigns after two deadly train crashes in one year
  • Supporters of candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva celebrate with a cardboard of Lula after the general election day on October 25, 2026 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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    Brazil’s left reinvented the right’s online playbook. It helped Lula win
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  • Gang Suppression Force (GSF) vehicles are seen in a traffic jam in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on October 24, 2026. Approximately 450 Salvadoran soldiers have arrived in the Haitian capital to reinforce the GSF and take part in search operations for four missing Salvadoran nationals.
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    Bukele adds a wildcard to Haiti’s fractured security landscape
  • Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado holds a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday.
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    Machado pushes for new elections in first news conference since returning to Venezuela
  • RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - OCTOBER 25: Flávio Bolsonaro presidential candidate for the Partido Liberal leaves after casting his vote during general election day on October 25, 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazilians will vote for the president who will run the country for the next 4 years. Current president Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, face off in a tight presidential runoff. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)
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    Flávio Bolsonaro says he will lead Brazil’s opposition in exile, after landing in US following election defeat
  • Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado greets supporters upon her arrival in Caracas on October 25.
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    Machado finally made it back to Venezuela. Her challenge now is to pressure Rodríguez without upsetting the US
  • President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leaves a polling station after voting in the presidential runoff in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026.
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    Brazil’s Lula completes stunning turnaround to secure election victory, as Trump ally Bolsonaro rejects result
  • People fly flags during an Alberta Independence Rally in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on October 17.
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    Canada won’t see Alberta seceding anytime soon. But what to do with the people who wanted to leave?
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    Video Lula has defined Brazil’s left for decades. Can his movement survive another Bolsonaro? 3:40
  • Armored police vehicles that are part of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) patrol near the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
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    El Salvador sends troops to Haiti to rescue four service members
  • Senator and right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro speaks to supporters during a rally at Mackenzie Esporte Clube in Belo Horizonte, Brazil on August 17, 2026. Brazilians will go to the polls next October 4 once again deeply polarized and under the shadow of US President Donald Trump, who has backed conservative candidates in recent elections in Latin America. (Photo by Gledston Tavares / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Flávio Bolsonaro inherited his father’s right-wing movement. Can he win Brazil’s presidency?
  • Supporters of the Forever Canadian group, who want Alberta to remain in Canada, react on the day of a non-binding referendum on Alberta sovereignty in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on October 19, 2026.
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    Alberta rejects secession referendum, chooses to remain part of Canada
  • Former Chihuahua prosecutor César Jáuregui arrives at the premises of Mexico’s Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) to be questioned about the deaths of two CIA agents, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on May 27. The agents died in a car crash following a security operation to dismantle a drug lab in Guachochi
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    Mexico arrests state official accused of allowing unauthorized CIA role in drug raid
  • Erik Prince speaks to CNN in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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    Exclusive: Inside Erik Prince’s secretive operation taking on Haiti’s gangs
  • The photos of foreign surfers who disappeared are displayed on a poster on the beach in Ensenada, Mexico, on May 5, 2024.
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    Three men sentenced to more than 158 years for the killings of Australian, US surfers in Mexico
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    Hurricane Simon weakens to Category 2 as it continues to lash Mexico’s Pacific coast
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