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  • Liberal Party centrist Salvador Nasralla has edged into the lead in Honduras' presidential election leaving Trump-backed Conservative candidate Nasry Asfura behind.
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    Centrist Nasralla takes slim lead in Honduran presidential election plagued by delays as Trump alleges fraud
  • This screengrab of a video posted to President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account on September 15, 2025, shows a boat on which Trump said he ordered a military strike. The president said the boat was carrying narcotics from Venezuela.
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    Colombian family files first known formal complaint over deadly US strike in Caribbean
  • Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists aboard a flight to Rome at the end of his apostolic journey to Turkey and Lebanon, on December 2, 2025.
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    Pope Leo urges against US incursion of Venezuela as he warns Western countries to be ‘less fearful’ of immigrants
  • Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro gestures during a ceremony at Fort Tiuna military base within the presidential inauguration in Caracas on January 10, 2025.
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    Venezuela’s Maduro lost two allies in a week. What regional partners does he have left?
  • A voter casts his ballot during general elections in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Sunday.
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    Conservatives ahead of governing party in Honduras presidential vote, days after Trump’s intervention
  • Peru's former President (20212022) Pedro Castillo gestures in the courtroom of the National Police Special Operations Directorate (DINOES) as the verdict is issued in his trial in Lima on November 27, 2025. A Peruvian court on Thursday sentenced former left-wing president Pedro Castillo to 11 years and five months in prison for trying to disband Congress and rule by decree in December 2022. (Photo by ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Peru sentences former President Pedro Castillo just a day after another presidential conviction
  • Members of the Bolivarian National Guard attend the launch of "Plan Republica," a security operation for the fourth popular consultation scheduled for November 23, at Campo Carabobo in Valencia, Venezuela, on November 19, 2025. (Photo by Jacinto OLIVEROS / AFP) (Photo by JACINTO OLIVEROS/AFP via Getty Images)
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    How Maduro’s forces are responding to US deployments in the Caribbean
  • Colombian President Gustavo Petro is interviewed by CNN on November 25.
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    CNN exclusive: Colombian president says oil is ‘at the heart of’ US pressure campaign on Venezuela
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  • 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
  • CARACAS, VENEZUELA - NOVEMBER 13: Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro waves to supporters during a demonstration on Youth Day in Caracas, Venezuela on November 13, 2025. (Photo by Pedro Mattey/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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    What would it take for Nicolas Maduro to give up power? An awful lot, experts say
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  • 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
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  • Venezuela’s propaganda machine lashes back with jokes, cartoons and sarcasm as US pressure ramps up
  • Venezuela’s opposition leader publishes ‘freedom manifesto’ from hiding as Maduro opens door to dialogue with Trump
  • Brazil’s Supreme Court sentences military officials for planning to kill Lula
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  • Alleged leader of Ecuadorian drug trafficking gang Los Lobos arrested in Spain
  • Thousands protest crime and corruption in Mexico City as ‘Gen Z’ protests gain momentum
  • Venezuela’s Maduro denounces US military drills in Trinidad and Tobago amid heightened tensions
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