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Colombia Charges Rebel Figures as Miguel Uribe Killing Still Haunts Politics
4+ hour, 41+ min ago (491+ words) At a Bogota park rally, an event meant for speeches and slogans, Colombia witnessed its first presidential candidate assassination in three decades. Conservative senator Miguel Uribe was shot multiple times by a teenager and died two months later. This alone…...
Colombian Military Grief Exposes the Cost of Delay and Distance
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (315+ words) A deadly air force crash in Putumayo is more than just news in Colombia. It brings up tough questions about readiness, bureaucracy, border logistics, and the heavy burden on a military still expected to represent the state in remote areas....
Cubans Transform Scrap Ingenuity into A Cautionary Example For Latin America
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (603+ words) A charcoal-powered car in rural Cuba may appear as a local curiosity; however, Reuters reporting reveals a deeper reality: when fuel blockades intensify, Latin America's crisis economies persist. They improvise, demonstrating both the region's resilience and the harshness of contemporary…...
Cuba Blackouts Expose Latin America's Emerging Era of Pressure
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (232+ words) Cuba's escalating energy crisis extends beyond an island emergency. It now serves as a test of Latin America's ability to navigate U.S. coercion, regime fatigue, economic anxiety, and the longstanding regional dilemma of pursuing change without relinquishing sovereignty. This crisis extends…...
Latin America Counts Its Barracks While the World Re-Arms Again
1+ week, 3+ day ago (265+ words) Colombia's Invisible Narcos: The Secret War Over Truth, Power, and the New Drug Economy As major powers strengthen their fleets, budgets, and borders, Latin America shows up in military rankings not as a battlefield giant but as a region gauging…...
Latin America Watches Cuba's Prison Gesture and Washington's Old Reflexes
1+ week, 5+ day ago (282+ words) Cuba's plan to release fifty-one prisoners comes at a tense moment, where Vatican diplomacy, internal pressures, and renewed US pressure all intersect. This forces Latin America to look beyond the gesture and consider what kind of future is really being…...
Cuba Waits as Power Whispers Through One Family's Closed Doors
1+ week, 6+ day ago (641+ words) Reuters says rumors of secret U.S. talks with people close to Ra'l Castro have raised old questions in Cuba, where official roles matter. Still, family ties, military history, and economic survival often matter even more as the island faces growing pressure....
El Salvador Emergency Rule Meets a Growing Human Rights Reckoning
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (707+ words) El Salvador Emergency Rule Meets a Growing Human Rights Reckoning'LatinAmerican Post A new report on El Salvador's extended state of exception reveals a darker side to the country's praised anti-gang crackdown: disappearances, deaths in prison, torture claims, and a shrinking…...
Cuba Students Sit In as Blackouts Rewrite the Social Contract
2+ week, 1+ day ago (855+ words) Colombia's Invisible Narcos: The Secret War Over Truth, Power, and the New Drug Economy About 30 students held a rare sit-in on the steps of Havana's university to protest power outages, internet outages, and remote classes. Their action highlighted a bigger…...
Venezuelan Arepas and Diplomacy as Trump Tests a New Caracas
2+ week, 1+ day ago (746+ words) Donald Trump's visit to Miami's Venezuelan restaurant El Arepazo was short, noisy, and full of meaning. It happened as Washington and Caracas worked to restore diplomatic ties after Nicol's Maduro's capture, turning a simple food stop into a political test…...