Latin America

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What Are FARC Dissidents—and Why Violence Persists Culture

What Are FARC Dissidents—and Why Violence Persists

Colombia's 2016 peace deal was meant to end decades of war with the FARC guerrillas. Instead, splinter factions rejected the accord, rearmed, and now...

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How the US Cuba Embargo Works—and Why It Persists Economy

How the US Cuba Embargo Works—and Why It Persists

The US embargo on Cuba is the longest trade embargo in modern history, spanning over six decades. Here's how it works, why Congress locked it into law...

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Why Peru Can't Keep a President—9 Leaders in a Decade Culture

Why Peru Can't Keep a President—9 Leaders in a Decade

Peru has cycled through nine presidents since 2016, more than any other democracy. A vague constitutional clause, extreme party fragmentation, and end...

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Last Two World Cup 2026 Spots Decided in Mexico Tuesday Sport

Last Two World Cup 2026 Spots Decided in Mexico Tuesday

The final two places at the 2026 FIFA World Cup are at stake on March 31 in Mexico, as DR Congo face Jamaica in Guadalajara and Iraq meet Bolivia in M...

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Why Cuba's Power Grid Keeps Collapsing Technology

Why Cuba's Power Grid Keeps Collapsing

Cuba has suffered repeated nationwide blackouts since 2024, leaving millions without electricity for days. The roots of the crisis lie in Soviet-era i...

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What Are Enforced Disappearances and How They Work Culture

What Are Enforced Disappearances and How They Work

Enforced disappearances—when states secretly detain people and deny knowledge of their fate—have affected hundreds of thousands across 85 countries. H...

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Colombia: 69 Dead in Military C-130 Plane Crash Technology

Colombia: 69 Dead in Military C-130 Plane Crash

A Colombian Air Force C-130H Hercules plane crashed after taking off from Puerto Leguízamo with 128 people on board, leaving 69 dead and sparking an i...

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Cuba Plunged into Darkness: Third Power Grid Collapse in March Economy

Cuba Plunged into Darkness: Third Power Grid Collapse in March

Cuba's power grid collapsed for the third time in March 2026, leaving over 10 million people without electricity amid a U.S. oil blockade that has cut...

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How Cuba's One-Party System Works—and Why It Persists Economy

How Cuba's One-Party System Works—and Why It Persists

Cuba's Communist Party has monopolized power since 1965. Here's how the island's political system is structured, how elections work without real choic...

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Venezuela Wins First World Baseball Classic Title Sport

Venezuela Wins First World Baseball Classic Title

Venezuela defeated the United States 3-2 in a dramatic ninth-inning comeback at Miami's loanDepot Park to claim the country's first-ever World Basebal...

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Cuba: Ten Days of Protests Shake the Regime Economy

Cuba: Ten Days of Protests Shake the Regime

Cuba marks its tenth consecutive day of mass protests on March 16, 2026, with pot-banging demonstrations, barricades, and fires erupting amid blackout...

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Kast Takes Office in Chile: Country's Biggest Shift to the Right Since 1990 Culture

Kast Takes Office in Chile: Country's Biggest Shift to the Right Since 1990

José Antonio Kast was inaugurated as President of Chile on March 11, 2026, in Valparaíso, with Javier Milei and King Felipe VI among the guests, conso...

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