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  • Gladys Valdes, 76, prepares coffee during a blackout as Cuba's national electric grid collapsed, according to the country's grid operator, leaving around 10 million people without power amid a US-imposed oil blockade, in Havana, Cuba March 16, 2026.
    Norlys Perez/Reuters
    Cuba is going dark under US pressure. How the crisis unfolded and why its troubles are far from over
  • Cuba's President and First Secretary Miguel Diaz-Canel attends a plenary session of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 7, 2025.
    Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images
    Cuban president promises ‘impregnable resistance’ to any US attempt to control island
  • A soldier stands guard by a charred vehicle after it was set on fire, in Cointzio, Michoacán state, Mexico, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, following the death of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Oseguera, known as "El Mencho."
    Armando Solis/AP
    Trump asked Latin America to use military force against drug trafficking. Here are the risks
  • A street vendor tends to a customer on the Malecón during a blackout in Havana, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
    Ramon Espinosa/AP
    Trump muses over ‘taking Cuba’ as island’s power grid collapses after weeks of US oil blockade
  • A man rides a tricycle with his leashed dog running alongside him during a blackout in Havana, Cuba, on Monday, March 16.
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    Flailing Cuba invites exiles to return, but hurdles remain
  • Cubans transit on a street in Havana on January 7, 2026. Cubans weary from years of economic crisis, shortages of basic supplies and regular power blackouts, fear the US attack on Venezuela, a leftist ideological ally and its main oil supplier, will see life get even tougher. (Photo by Yamil LAGE / AFP via Getty Images)
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    ‘We can’t take it anymore’: How Trump is pushing Cuba to the brink
  • Cuban coast guard ships docked at the port of Havana on February 25, 2026. Cuba's coast guard said on February 25, 2026, it shot dead four people and wounded six others traveling in a US-registered speedboat during an exchange of fire near Cuba's shores that came amid heightened tensions with Washington.
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    Cuba charges six exiles with terrorism over Florida-registered speedboat attack
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  • A bus set on fire by organised crime groups in response to an operation in Jalisco to arrest a high-priority security target, burns at one of the main avenues in Zapopan, state of Jalisco, Mexico, on Sunday, February 22.
    Ulises Ruiz/AFP/Getty Images
    With World Cup looming, can Mexico contain the chaos unleashed by the killing of drug lord ‘El Mencho’?
  • Enrique Marquez, a released Venezuelan prisoner, is recognized as U.S. President Donald J. Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, February 24, 2026.  Kenny Holston/Pool via REUTERS

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    Freed Venezuelan political prisoner reunites with niece at Trump’s State of the Union address
  • A bus set on fire by organised crime groups in response to an operation in Jalisco to arrest a high-priority security target, burns at one of the main avenues in Zapopan, state of Jalisco, Mexico, on February 22, 2026.
    Ulises Ruiz/AFP/Getty Images
    The death of ‘El Mencho’ exposed the reach of Mexico’s cartel crisis. Will US tourists stay away?
  • Davianis Deyunde, 50, and Raul Trujillo carry a recently bought solar panel after unloading it from a delivery truck as Cubans grapple with an ongoing energy crisis exacerbated by fuel shortages, Havana, Cuba on February 4, 2026.
    Norlys Perez/Reuters
    Canada plans to assist Cuba as Washington squeezes the island
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    Who was ‘El Mencho,’ the feared cartel leader killed in a military operation?
  • A soldier stands guard by a charred vehicle after it was set on fire, in Cointzio, Michoacán state, Mexico, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, following the death of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Oseguera, known as "El Mencho." (AP Photo/Armando Solis)
    Armando Solis/AP
    Mexico’s most-wanted drug leader killed in military operation as clashes erupt and US tourists told to shelter in place
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  • The president of Venezuela's National Assembly Jorge Rodriguez (center), first vice president Pedro Jose Infante (left) and second vice president Grecia Colmenares (right) speak with opposition deputy Nora Bracho (bottom left) and ruling party deputy Jorge Arreaza during a debate on an amnesty bill proposed by Venezuela's interim president Delcy Rodriguez at the National Assembly in Caracas on February 19.
    Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images
    Venezuela passed a law to free hundreds of political prisoners after US pressure. Here’s why some welcome it cautiously
  • Peru’s leader José Jerí ousted over ‘Chifa-gate’ scandal, as presidential ‘curse’ strikes again
  • No food, no fuel, no tourists: Under US pressure, life in Cuba grinds to a halt
  • Video Cuba’s economy crippled under Trump administration’s oil embargo 2:12
  • Rifles on display at That Hunting Store in Ottawa, Ontario in 2022. A federal buyback for assault-style weapons in Canada, where gun control is broadly popular, has been met with criticism from provincial officials, police and gun owners
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    Gun control is popular in Canada. So why is a major buyback program attracting criticism?
  • Guns and mental health struggles: What the apparent online footprint of the Canada school shooter tells us
  • Suspected shooter named as community gathers to grieve after Canada’s worst school shooting in decades. Here’s what we know
  • What we know about the victims killed in one of Canada’s worst school shootings
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