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  • Men in military uniforms carrying rifles march in formation

    Canada lists Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorist group

    Move comes five years after US did so and will add to pressure on European governments to follow suit
  • Three women, moved to tears, are interviewed by the press outside a court building in Lima.

    Peruvian soldiers found guilty of rapes committed during civil war in historic verdict

    ‘Landmark’ case is first to deal with use of sexual violence in state’s conflict with Shining Path rebels four decades ago
  • Pastor Rómulo and a group of his most trusted recovering alcoholics are loading up alcoholics from the streets onto the back of the pickup to bring them to the centre. 20.04.2024 Intibucá, Honduras

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘They die like flies’: Intibucá in Honduras has an alarming alcohol problem – can prohibition and tough love fix it?

    The state is renowned for its culture – and sky-high alcohol-related death rate. Health workers, local government and a pastor on a mission are trying to halt the damage caused by cheap booze and a macho culture
  • Sockeye salmon in the Adams river of British Columbia

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Canada to ban open-net pen salmon farming in British Columbia

    Environmentalists hail decision to end practice in five years but aquaculture industry warns of 6,000 jobs at risk
  • Two buses travel on a main road during a blackout in Quito.

    Ecuador struck by power outage leaving 18 million in the dark

    Power was restored on Wednesday afternoon, after the outage caused confusion on the streets of Quito as traffic lights ceased working
  • A Patagonian mara is seen at the entrance of Buenos Aires zoo, which has been converted into an ecological park.

    The age of extinction
    From showing animals for profit to protecting them: the reinvention of Buenos Aires zoo

    An ecopark that treats injured wild animals from all over Argentina and the largest biobank in South America has the support of the public and conservationists
  • Bed of white pickup truck is open at night to show stacks of a few dozen rectangular, beige, plastic-wrapped packages.

    US accuses Chinese ‘underground bankers’ of laundering $50m in cartel drug money

    Justice department charges 24 defendants and says long investigation reveals links between Mexico’s Sinaloa gang and China
  • Close-up of pile of avocados, with white sticker that says "Mexico" in red type.

    US pauses avocado and mango inspections in Mexico after attack

    Two officials assaulted and held while inspecting avocados in Michoacán in incident ‘unconnected to industry’
  • A bird's eye shot of a woman squatting on a rocky beach, sorting through plastic using a pink sieve.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Your plastic is here’: how Easter Island copes with 500 pieces of rubbish an hour washing ashore

    One of the world’s most remote populations must deal with a flood of multinational plastic, much of it tossed overboard by the factory fishing ships hoovering up sealife just offshore
  • Avocado from Mexico sold in Encinitas, California. US agricultural inspections of mangos and avocados in Michoacán were stopped due to security problems. Shipments already in transit are not impacted, said the USDA.

    US avocado inspectors stop work in Mexican state over ‘security situation’

  • A woman and a girl get to their car in Spring, Texas, during a heavy rain storm

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Mexico and southern Texas brace for torrential rain

  • Nemonte Nenquimo

    Ecuador’s president won’t give up on oil drilling in the Amazon. We plan to stop him – again

    Nemonte Nenquimo
    This forest is our home, our existence and our children’s future. Politicians who can’t resist selling it for oil cash will feel the strength of the Waorani people, writes campaigner Nemonte Nenquimo
  • The ‘lost city’ of Choquequirao near Cusco, a hidden citadel that can only be reached on foot.

    The alternative Machu Picchu: a hike to find the ‘real’ lost world of the Incas

    At the start of a 3,000-mile journey down the Amazon, our writer witnesses the benefits of community tourism projects on a less crowded option to the Inca Trail
  • In response to the transnational student callout to #Revolt4Rafah, the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at McGill is launching the revolutionary YOUTH SUMMER PROGRAM.

    Pro-Palestinian Canadian students’ post for ‘teach-in’ features masked guerrillas

  • People watch a ship belonging to the Russian Navy flotilla

    Russian warship visit brings cold war frisson to sweltering Havana

  • Bolsonaro supporters invade the nation

    Brazil seeks pro-Bolsonaro rioters who fled to Argentina

    Country asks Argentina to identify rioters’ whereabouts and status before deciding to request extraditions
  • an aerial view of resorts along a beach

    US man dies after being electrocuted in hot tub in Mexico resort town

    Death of man and injuries suffered by a woman were due to ‘possible electric discharge’ when both were in the hot tub
    • Europol smashes Balkan cartel shipping drugs from South America

    • Maya twins myth may have influenced child sacrifices, study suggests

    • Bloodlines
      ‘The gangs never used to kill children, now they do’: how cocaine created Argentina’s first narcocity

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