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As Bolivia's big state economic model slowly implodes, fear of 'total crisis'
LA PAZ - Housewife Yola Chura worried about high food prices while shopping at a market in Bolivia's highland city of El Alto, where she...
Dec 17, 20243 min read
Analysis-Case against Brazil coup plotters could end decades of impunity
SAO PAULO - The arrest of a four-star general in Brazil over the weekend shows courts are ready to play hardball with those accused of...
Dec 17, 20244 min read
New technology aids Brazil's crackdown on illicit Amazon gold trade
BRASILIA - Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor, real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested in July 2023 for illegally...
Dec 15, 20245 min read
Brazil's Lula has head drain removed after second surgery, doctors say
SAO PAULO - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had a drain removed from his head on Thursday evening, his doctors said, as he...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
Venezuela releases dozens of detainees arrested after July's contested election
CARACAS - Venezuelan authorities said on Thursday that they have released 103 people this week who had been arrested amid anti-government...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
Argentina's Kirchner returns as Peronists eye comeback against Milei
BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner took the helm of the Peronist party on Wednesday, vowing a...
Dec 13, 20241 min read
Brazil's Lula rushed to Sao Paulo for brain surgery, stable in ICU
SAO PAULO -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was rushed to Sao Paulo overnight for emergency surgery to drain a bleed on his...
Dec 10, 20242 min read
2024 will be the hottest year on record, EU scientists say
BRUSSELS - This year will be the world's warmest since records began, with extraordinarily high temperatures expected to persist into at...
Dec 9, 20242 min read
Facts-Which countries have completed debt swaps for nature and climate
LONDON - Debt swaps are becoming a more widely used tool to help indebted countries raise money for conservation or climate-related...
Dec 3, 20243 min read
Threatened by climate change, Panama Canal has big plans to deal with drought
TRES HERMANAS, Panama - The lush river valleys of El Zaino y La Arenosa in western Panama, home to hundreds of families that eke out a...
Dec 2, 20246 min read
Another bleak Christmas in Bethlehem as Christian families quit West Bank
BETHLEHEM, West Bank - For a second year running, there is no Christmas cheer in Bethlehem, with tourists shunning the Palestinian city...
Dec 2, 20243 min read
Exclusive-UN calls for $2.6 trillion investment to reverse land degradation
RIYADH - Restoring the world's degraded land and holding back its deserts will require at least $2.6 trillion in investment by the end of...
Dec 2, 20243 min read
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