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  • 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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  • The hearse of drug trafficker Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera leaves la Paz funeral home in Guadalajara, Jalisco state, Mexico, on March 2, 2026.
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    Slain cartel leader ‘El Mencho’ buried in a golden casket
  • The Provincial Clinical–Surgical Hospital "Arnaldo Milian Castro," where people injured in the speedboat incident were reportedly being treated on Thursday.
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    US citizen was among those killed in Cuba speedboat shootout. Here’s what we know
  • Firefighters work at the site where buses were set on fire by members of organized crime following a military operation in which Mexican officials said cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera, "El Mencho," was killed, at a tourist area, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, February 22, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone.  REUTERS/Stringer
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    US tourists stranded in Mexico amid ‘really scary’ cartel violence following drug lord’s killing
  • 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.
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    Canada plans to assist Cuba as Washington squeezes the island
  • Members of the army patrol the perimeter of Palacio Nacional, where President Claudia Sheinbaum held her daily morning press conference about the wave of violence in Mexico, following the killing of drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, known as 'El Mencho,' in a military operation on Sunday, in Mexico City, Mexico, February 23, 2026. REUTERS/Raquel Cunha
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    Will the killing of ‘El Mencho’ set off turf wars and narco-terrorism across Mexico?
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  • A US Customs and Border Patrol agent seen in Metairie, Louisiana, on December 3, 2025.
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    Pro-Trump lawmaker in Colombia faces questions after son’s detention by ICE
  • 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.
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  • American surfer Kurt Van Dyke, who was found dead in Costa Rica on February 14.
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    American surfer Kurt Van Dyke found dead in apparent robbery at his home in Costa Rica
  • Edmundo Gonzalez, Venezuela's opposition candidate, during an interview at his home in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday, May 15, 2024.
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    Venezuela’s quiet opposition leader: Why Edmundo González is on the sidelines of a power struggle
  • Forensic specialists speak in front the site of a deadly mass shooting in the town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, on Wednesday.
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    Guns and mental health struggles: What the apparent online footprint of the Canada school shooter tells us
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  • People left candles, flowers, photographs and plush toys at a makeshift memorial for the victims.
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    What we know about the victims killed in one of Canada’s worst school shootings
  • US energy secretary and Venezuela’s acting president tour oil facility in warming ties just weeks after Maduro ouster
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  • Canada in shock after worst school shooting in decades leaves at least eight dead
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  • Exclusive: Cuba says it’s ready to talk to US, but not about regime change, as Trump ramps up pressure
  • The US says Venezuela is changing. But one month since Maduro’s capture, its people aren’t so sure
  • Thieves dressed as Robin Hood give away stolen food to protest Canada’s rising prices
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