Bolivian president Luis Arce (left) and vice president David Choquehuanca greet supporters gathered at Plaza Murillo in La Paz, Bolivia, after order had been restored.
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As the dust settles on the attempted coup in Bolivia, people are pointing the finger at the country’s president.
Claudia Sheinbaum at a presidential campaign rally in Mexico City in May 2024.
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Backed by an overwhelming majority, Claudia Sheinbaum has a unique opportunity to advance gender equality in Mexico.
The future is (probably) female.
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Electoral violence has marred the run-up to the June 2 vote. But despite fears over personal safety, support for democracy endures.
The third and final debate of the three Mexican presidential candidates for the June 2 elections.
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Mexico will elect its first woman president on Sunday.
Mexican police at the Topo Chico prison in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, where scores of people died in a prison fire and riot in 2016.
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Many young Mexican men that are working in precarious conditions are drawn into the fold of drug cartels.
The funeral of Bertha Gisela Gaytan, a mayoral candidate for the municipality of Celaya, Mexico, who was shot dead after her first campaign rally on April 1 2024.
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Mexican elections have been marred by political violence for years, and this year will be no different.
Prisoners at the Terrorism Confinement Centre, a prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, built to house 40,000 gang members convicted or detained.
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Governments across Latin America are resorting to draconian measures in an attempt to rein in surging gang violence.
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Nearly all countries in the region have criminalised either femicide or feminicide, which has had a tremendous impact on society.
Girls carry a dying sheep in the Cconchaccota community of the Apurimac region of Peru as more than 3,000 communities in the central and southern Andes experience its driest period in half a century in November 2022.
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Girls bear the brunt of the climate crisis. It’s time we bring them to the centre of international climate policy.
Ecuadorian security forces breaking into the Mexican embassy in the capital, Quito, on April 5 2024.
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The raid almost certainly broke international law, but Ecuador’s president is hoping his strongman tactics will resonate with the electorate.
Then-President Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras talks with then-Vice President Joe Biden in Guatemala in 2016.
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Washington looked the other way as coup leaders and drugs cartels conspired to turn Honduras into a center of the cocaine trade.
Tzotzil women line up for Holy Communion during a Catholic Mass in Chiapas state, Mexico, in 2016.
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Indigenous Catholics have long argued they should be able to embrace both sides of that identity.
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Purple was highly valued and associated with royalty, power, and prestige in various ancient cultures, including the Roman and Byzantine Empires. So how did red creep its way in?
Chaos on the streets of Port-au-Prince.
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Can a multinational security mission provide Haiti with a stable future? Not without sustained funding for after the troops leave.
Migrants wade through the Tuquesa River as they traverse the Darien Gap.
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More than half a million people made the treacherous crossing in 2023 – far higher than in previous years.
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More than 6 million people have fled Venezuela seeking better living conditions – now they are boosting economic growth in their host countries.
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Haiti is facing a wave of chaos as gang violence grips the country.
Class, gender and religion influenced health care in early modern Spain and Latin America.
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Early modern societies in Latin America and Spain saw a convergence of traditional medical knowledge and the professionalization of medicine. The resulting differences in access to care endure today.
Do Argentinians have the patience for their new president’s shock therapy?
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Argentina is already feeling the sting of its new president’s policies – but Javier Milei is pressing ahead with ever-more radical plans to overhaul the economy.
Brazilian President Lula greets journalists, in Brasilia, one year after rioters stormed the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court buildings.
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The third-term president has used his experience and personal relationships with lawmakers to build the majorities that now support his agenda.