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The Biden administration has reimposed crushing oil sanctions on Venezuela in a rebuke to President Nicolas Maduro’s attempts to consolidate his rule just six months after the U.S. eased restrictions in a bid to support now fading hopes for a democratic opening in the OPEC nation.
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The Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, citing analysis of the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, reports that some 326,000 migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua have arrived at airports in Florida over the past year
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More than half of the estimated 7.7 million Venezuelans who have left their homeland during the complex crisis that has marked Nicolás Maduro’s 11-year presidency are estimated to be registered to vote in Venezuela. But government figures show only about 107,000 people are registered to vote outside the South American country
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The Mexican-born Chardy, who spoke and wrote in Spanish, English and French, awed his colleagues — and often the subjects of his stories — with his meticulous attention to fact and detail, voluminous note-taking and record-keeping, and a deep well of sources that spanned the world.
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A former career U.S. diplomat has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after admitting he worked for decades as a secret agent for communist Cuba.
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Argentina’s highest criminal court has reported a new development in the elusive quest for justice in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center headquarters, the deadliest attack in the country's history.
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Pope Francis has met with a leader of Brazil’s Yanomami people. The shaman, Davi Kopenawa, says he asked for papal backing for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s efforts to reverse decades of exploitation of the Amazon and better protect its indigenous peoples.
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Officials are eager to see the council in place as Haiti staggers under relentless gang violence that continues to choke the Port-au-Prince capital and surrounding communities.
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The attorney general says Tareck El Aissami will make his first court appearance Tuesday on charges that include treason, money laundering and criminal association.
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COMMENTARY It's Pan American Week — but there's not a whole lot to celebrate in the Americas these days. Maybe the Americas Act can rekindle some hemispheric purpose.
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Many migrants make the perilous journey because they can’t find another way out of extreme poverty. Guatemalans are the largest group of unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S.-Mexican border illegally.
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Criminologists in Venezuela say the country's decline in crimes is because of the country’s poor economy, mass migration and the government's extrajudicial killings, not the government emptying prisons.