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Argentina lawmakers have approved Milei's sweeping reform bill but much negotiating remains 0 Eugene Feb 2024 Feb 2024 0 924
Latin America's biggest arms dealer Diego Dirsio is arrested in Argentina after a month on the run 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 779
EU imposes sanctions on Guatemala officials for role in attempted coup 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 654
Secret US spying program targeted top Venezuelan officials, flouting international law 0 Eugene Feb 2024 Feb 2024 3 908
Short on cash, El Salvador doubles down on Bitcoin dream 0 Eugene Feb 2024 Feb 2024 1 698
Oldest-Known Amazon City Changes the Narrative on South American History 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 11 871
How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions - for trying to protect its own seabed 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 1068
Brazil, confronting calls for reparations, grapples with slavery's painful legacy 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 820
El Salvador VP acknowledges mistakes in war on gangs but says country is 'not a police state' 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 897
Argentinian court overturns Milei's labor rules, in a blow to his reform plans 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 818
Texas seized part of the US-Mexico border and blocked federal Border Patrol agents. Here's what happened next 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 1390
Around 89,000 Brazilians Applied for Portuguese Citizenship Between 2018 & 2022 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 822
Bolivian protesters block major highways in bid to put ex-president Morales back on the ballot 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 874
Haiti: Arrest warrant issued against the widow of Ex-President Mose 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 1057
App lets Indigenous Brazilians connect in own languages 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 741
US condemns ban on Venezuelan opposition leader's candidacy and puts sanctions relief under review 0 Eugene Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 825
WATCH Colombian Navy seizes first narco-sub of 2024 with 800kg of cocaine 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 851
Colombia 'strongly' condemns Argentine president's remarks about President Petro as 'Communist killer' 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 961
Venezuela's highest court upholds ban on opposition presidential candidate 4 Eugene Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 1183
Also from Borderland Beat: Romanian Gang in California Skimmed EBT Cards to Trade Baby Formula with Mexican Cartels 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 8 1271
'Illegal and invalid': Kenya court halts deployment of police to Haiti 0 Eugene Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 974
BHP Group to review court decision on $31.53 bln Fundao dam claim 0 Eugene Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 966
Five Police Officers Shot To Death In Central Mexico 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 885
Argentina's Javier Milei to water down privatisation push 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 841
Brazil police probe Bolsonaro's ex-intel chief for illegal spying 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 1455
Why Venezuela wants to annex Guyana - CaspianReport 1 TexasTowelie Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 1001
Argentina Hits Rock Bottom - 211% Inflation is World High, Peso Collapses & National Strikes Spread - Joe Blogs 1 TexasTowelie Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 1251
In Brazil, the Seahorse Black Market Is Bustling 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 1145
This is not good 5 malaise Jan 2024 Jan 2024 13 1816
Argentina: General strike called against Milei's shock doctrine policies, hyperinflation 3 peppertree Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 1451

Latin America Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Ecuador's reactionary war 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 1122
Killing of nine-year-old girl reignites debate on security in Argentina 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 929
Mexico wins appeal in lawsuit against US gunmakers filed in Boston 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 1255
Archeological evidence shows hunter-gatherers in South America ate mostly plants 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 947
Rio City Councilman Implicated in Murder of Marielle Franco 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 738
After animal rights campaign, giraffe Benito arrives at new Mexican home 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 815
Mexico's Yucatan tourist train sinks pilings into relic-filled limestone caves, activists show 0 Eugene Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 847
Plenty more flying fish in the sea? Tobago's fears as Bajan boats move in 6 malaise Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 1298
Piedad Cordoba, an outspoken leftist who straddled Colombia's ideological divide, dies at 68 1 peppertree Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 894
A caravan of migrants from Honduras who were heading to the US dissolves in Guatemala 1 Eugene Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 1834
Democratic Black Congresswoman, Barbara Lee, Shut Out of Cuba Hearing By Cuban American Rep. Mara Elvira Salazar (R) 9 Marcus IM Jan 2024 Jan 2024 16 2456
Two Cuban documentaries show effects of US sanctions on island nation 7 Marcus IM Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 1851
Cuba's placement on the State Sponsor of Terrorism list has led to damaging consequences 10 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 9 2107
La Kena: Notorious Mexican cartel leader captured 1 Eugene Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 857
Solidarity with Argentinians Resisting the Far Right 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 9 1053
'It's very scary now': Fear grips Haiti's Port-au-Prince amid gang violence 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 1213
Soldiers raid Ecuador prison as two arrested for prosecutor's murder 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 882
El Salvador woman freed after abortion conviction 1 Eugene Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 906
Prosecutor in the TV studio attack is shot dead in Ecuador's most dangerous city 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 1020
Waqra Pukara: Peru's mysterious 'horned fortress' 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 1243
World's oldest forest is just a short drive from NYC: Grew 385 MILLION years ago and was seen by DINOSAURS 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 16 1426
State workers protests against President Javier Milei's economic reforms - Al Jazeera 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 878
Taking It to Guatemala's Streets 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 785
A Working Class Victory on the Horizon in Colombia 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 890
1,100-year-old feast -- with a relatable menu -- unearthed at Mayan palace in Mexico 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 1301
Support Argentina's general strike against Milei's far-right offensive 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 803
What is stopping Guatemala's president-elect from taking office? - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 992
Milei appointee to PAMI (Argentine Medicare) office: "Covid might be a solution to the Argentine pension deficit" 1 peppertree Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 915
Pope says he hopes to visit 'suffering' Argentina this year 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 820
Villahermosa Tabasco: CJNG Kidnaps Nine Colombian Escorts 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 819

Latin America Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Deadly landslide kills 34, injures dozens in Colombia 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 969
How the Biden administration helped avoid a coup in Guatemala 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 1489
Massive trove of ancient artifacts, skeletons found in Brazil 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 21 1441
Three migrants drown at US border as Texas blocked their rescue 4 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 10 1263
Biden administration asks U.S. Supreme Court to tell Texas to stop blocking U.S. border agents from patrols 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 10 1209
Panama Tried to Close a Hated Mine. Not So Fast, Said Foreign Investors. 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 9 1078
Today is the 117th anniversary of the great Kingston Earthquake 0 malaise Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 713
How Wealthy Corporations Use Investment Agreements to Extract Millions From Developing Countries 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 8 947
Indigenous resistance against 'coup' attempt in Guatemala 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 8 748
Italy blocks extradition of dictatorship-era priest to Argentina 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 1069
School lunches are Brazil's secret -- and delicious -- weapon in halting hunger 0 Jilly_in_VA Jan 2024 Jan 2024 14 985
Argentina's Mileise: Monthly inflation hits 25.5% in December - the highest in the world 2 peppertree Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 1385
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Cities Hidden in the Ecuadorian Amazon 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 13 1724
Happy New Year Judi Lynn 15 malaise Jan 2024 Jan 2024 19 2218
Half a century later, the military junta still haunts Chile 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 1081
Bullfighting to return to Mexico City after legal battle 3 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 1136
Ancient cities discovered in the Amazon are the largest yet found 8 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 2442
Retired Supreme Court Justice will be Lula's Minister of Justice 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 850
Starbucks is sued for KNOWINGLY claiming its coffee is '100% ethical' - when it knows farms in Guatemala, Kenya and Braz 5 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 8 1875
New Report from Leading Research and Civil Society Organizations Reveals New Information on the Arrests of Water Defende 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 764
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