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New Gang Battle Lines Scar Haiti as Political Deadlock Persists
In this Q&A, Crisis Group shows how the former and the latter are deeply intertwined. Diego Da Rin What is…
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Pesticide made us sterile, banana workers say
The United States restricted and then banned its use on the US mainland because of the health risks, but workers…
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Turkish Bananas: The Cocaine Road to Russia and the Persian Gulf
He’s not a cop or a criminal. Alessandro Ford InSight Crime Ahmet is a banana importer in Turkey. “This is…
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US immigration: ‘They’d rather die than return to Nicaragua’
Noé was somewhere on the outskirts of the gritty southern Mexican city of Tapachula when he realised how difficult his…
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Ecuador declares state of emergency in three provinces over drug violence
Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso announced on April 29 he had decreed a state of emergency for two months in three…
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Why British royals face simmering resentment in Caribbean
People here pride themselves on the welcome offered to visitors – tourism is the country’s mainstay after all. But behind…
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Ecuador: Investigate Police Abuse During Women’s Day Marches
(New York) – Ecuadorean police responded to peaceful demonstrations commemorating International Women’s Day on March 8, 2022, with excessive force, including striking…
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Government Critics Languish in Nicaraguan prisons
Torres was reportedly being held in inhumane conditions, incommunicado for prolonged periods, repeatedly interrogated, and not allowed to access the…
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Mexico sees 2nd major win for independent unions
The vote tallies at the Tridonex autoparts plant mark the second victory over undemocratic, old-guard unions that had long kept…
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The United States Is Ignoring Latin America. China Isn’t.
Argentine president Alberto Fernández was not in Beijing simply to take in the Winter Games, or just to lay a…
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Record numbers of young Guatemalans migrate north, leaving families in limbo
Her 15-year-old grandson Kevin pulled a backpack over his shoulders and climbed into the car that would take him on…
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Rights groups’ warning as Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy restored
The American Immigration Council said it was a dark day for the US and the rule of law. BBC US…
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The English language dominates global conservation science – which leaves 1 in 3 research papers virtually ignored
But our new research reveals how important scientific knowledge in other languages is going untapped. Tatsuya Amano The Conversation This oversight squanders…
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Biden’s Border Crisis
After trying to minimize the fact that apprehensions at the US-Mexico border are reaching historic highs, President Joe Biden’s administration…
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Men on horses chasing Black asylum seekers? Sadly, America has seen it before
That’s beyond cynical Moustafa Bayoumi The Guardian You’ve probably seen a photograph haunting the internet this week: a white-presenting man…
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Angry scenes at Haiti airport as deported migrants arrive
On Tuesday, migrants at the airport in Port-au-Prince rushed back towards the plane they had arrived on, while others threw…
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