#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.29.2025 Julio Simón, Argentine torturer convicted in landmark case, dies at 84. The 2006 trial for atrocities during Argentina’s military dictatorship began a wave of prosecutions more than a generation after the junta.
#South America × #Argentina
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.28.2025 Before DOGE, Argentina’s Javier Milei took a chainsaw to his government. In an interview with The Washington Post, Milei celebrated Elon Musk’s embrace of his chainsaw, calling it “an emblem of the new golden era of humanity.”
#Business #Politics #Tech #cls__sex_gdb_Male #South America × #USA #Elon Musk #Argentina #North America #Javier Milei #Americas
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.21.2025 The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you’re in Brazil.. While the Wright brothers are widely recognized as the fathers of flight, Brazilians believe the true inventor of the airplane was one of their own.
#Aviation #Brazil #South America ×
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.16.2025 Trump’s aid freeze hampers anti-narcotics programs in Latin America. The aid freeze has upended anti-narcotics efforts in Latin America, with programs in Colombia, Mexico, and Ecuador affected.
#Politics #South America × #USA #North America #Ecuador #Colombia #Americas #Mexico
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.15.2025 Why is your morning joe so expensive? Brazil’s coffee farms have the answer.. Extreme weather is ravaging arabica harvests in Brazil, the world’s largest coffee producer, turning a cup of joe into something of a luxury item.
#Weather #Brazil #South America ×
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.15.2025 Rubio says South African ambassador to U.S. ‘no longer welcome’. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called South Africa’s U.S. ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, “a race-baiting politician who hates America” and declared him persona non grata.
#Politics #Africa #South America × #South Africa #USA #North America #Americas #politician
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.28.2025 State Department warns travelers about drugging-dating scam in Brazil. There were at least 40 cases last year in which thieves drugged travelers in their hotel rooms so they could steal their belongings.
#Brazil #South America ×
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.28.2025 As Trump eyes birthright citizenship, ‘birth tourists’ see opportunity. President Donald Trump’s stalled attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship has done little to slow the popular practice of “birth tourism” among Brazilians.
#Brazil #South America ×
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.26.2025 Trump says he’s ending Venezuela oil deal. Trump’s announcement marked an abrupt reversal of his administration’s outreach to President Nicolás Maduro.
#Politics #South America × #Nicolás Maduro #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.25.2025 Turned away at the U.S. border, migrants make a dangerous trek in reverse. Trump’s hard-line immigration policies have sparked a reverse migration wave, with migrants traveling south through Panama and Colombia.
#South America × #USA #North America #Colombia #Panama
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.24.2025 The prosecutor marked to die by South America’s most dangerous gang. The Post spent four months following the Brazilian state attorney who has gone after the country’s increasingly powerful narcos — and could pay with his life.
#Brazil #South America × #USA #North America #Americas
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.23.2025 In Suriname, a shadowy hunt for traffickers selling jaguar parts to China. Wildlife trafficking is the fourth-largest source of illicit revenue globally after drugs, human smuggling and counterfeit goods, according to Homeland Security Investigations.
#China #South America × #Asia #Suriname
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.22.2025 Brazilian judge suspends Rumble, host of Trump’s Truth Social platform. The order is the latest salvo in a conflict between Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes and the American right wing, including prominent Trump supporters.
#Brazil #South America × #USA #North America #Americas
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.19.2025 Brazil charges Bolsonaro with leading plot to seize power, kill rivals. Former president Jair Bolsonaro is accused of plotting the assassination of political rivals and a military takeover of Latin America’s largest country.
#Brazil #South America ×
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.16.2025 Relatives and records cast doubt on Guantánamo migrants being ‘worst of the worst’. Details on some of the Guantánamo migrants have begun to emerge. They are young Venezuelan men, and relatives say they have been falsely branded Tren de Aragua gang members.
#South America × #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.15.2025 American hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen freed during Israel-Hamas ceasefire. The 36-year-old American Israeli dual national was released with Russian Israeli Alexander Troufanov, 29, and Iair Horn, 46, who was born in Argentina.
#Russia #South America × #USA #Argentina #Europe #Asia #North America #Israel #Americas
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.14.2025 Video shows whale gulping up kayaker: ‘I thought I had died’. A man who was scooped up by a humpback whale before being released has described his terror during the extraordinary moment caught on video.
#South America × #Chile
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.12.2025 From Colombia with love: The journey of a Valentine’s Day bouquet. Since the beginning of the year more than one billion flowers have crossed into the United States. Most of them came from Colombia.
#South America × #USA #North America #Colombia
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.07.2025 Brazilian plane crashes into traffic, engulfing bus in flames and killing 2. A small plane crashed into a busy street in São Paulo, killing two people on board and injuring several others.
#Brazil #South America ×
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.06.2025 The asylum seekers deported in the first days of Trump’s presidency. Some of the hundreds of Colombians deported in the first weeks of Trump’s presidency said they had only seen the United States from the inside of detention centers.
#South America × #USA #North America #Colombia
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.06.2025 Argentina to withdraw from World Health Organization, following Trump. President Javier Milei’s office announced that Argentina will exit the WHO and ban gender-affirming care for minors, mirroring two recent Trump executive orders.
#Health #Politics #South America × #Argentina #Javier Milei #World Health Organization
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.04.2025 In a Colombian cocaine hub, a fragile peace falls apart. The fighting between two armed drug trafficking groups — fueled and financed in part by a booming global cocaine business — has left former rebels vulnerable.
#South America × #Colombia
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.02.2025 DHS to end temporary protection for approximately 350,000 Venezuelans. Kristi Noem’s decision to end temporary protective status for a large group of Venezuelans puts them at risk of being forced to return to the autocratic regime they fled.
#Politics #South America × #USA #North America #Venezuela
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.01.2025 Trump to send Venezuelans back to Maduro’s repressive state. An agreement with the government of Nicolás Maduro will allow the deportation of hundreds of thousands back to the authoritarian socialist regime many have fled.
#Politics #South America × #USA #North America #Nicolás Maduro #Venezuela
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