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13 September 2024

  • Canadian soldiers train

    Canadian military admits new sleeping bags are not suited to Canadian winters

  • One man wearing a blue suit speaks at a podium marked with a sign saying 'Conservative party of British Columbia,' while another man wearing a navy suit stands by

    British Columbia shaken by messy election campaign putting progressive policies at risk

12 September 2024

  • A smiling Fujimori waves

    Peru declares three days of mourning after death of ex-president Alberto Fujimori

    Decision to honour authoritarian leader jailed for corruption and human rights abuses sparks mixed reactions
  • A child carries a surfboard, the ground is strewn with rubbish

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Waste has value’: how surfing helps Colombia solve its plastic problem

    The Amigos del Mar has found a way to help Tierra Bomba island clean up its beaches – and get children back to school
  • a red feather cloak photographed from four different angles

    ‘A beacon of hope’: Indigenous people reunited with sacred cloak in Brazil

    Denmark sends 300-year-old feathered cloak considered an ancestor by Tupinambá de Olivença to Rio

11 September 2024

  • Leci Brandão.

    ‘This janitor’s daughter became a state deputy’: Leci Brandão, the Brazilian samba star turned communist lawmaker

  • ‘They look as if they are one person’ … portrait of Nelson Vílchez with his son Moisés.

    My best shot
    A father and son commune with their ancestors in an Andean ghost village: Víctor Zea Díaz’s best photograph

  • Ruling party secures votes for overhaul, which has led to protests amid fears it could undermine rule of law

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    Protesters storm Mexico's senate after lawmakers approve plan to overhaul judiciary – video report

  • A protester draped in Mexico flag confronts police

    Mexican senate gives final approval to sweeping changes to judiciary

  • Is it game over for Venezuela’s opposition as Maduro clings to power?

  • Religious groups ‘spending billions to counter gender-equality education’

10 September 2024

  • Handout picture released by the Brazilian presidency shows the drought-hit Jaquiri river in Manaquiri, Amazonas State, northern Brazil on Tuesday.

    Brazilian president flies into Amazon amid alarm over droughts and wildfires

  • A man, Silas Malafaia, wearing a yellow T-shirt speaks into a microphone as he raises his arm in the air

    Rise against fascism
    Where does democracy end and theocracy begin for Brazil?

    Petra Costa and Alessandra Orofino
  • children in school make notes

    Sex ed Paraguay-style: condoms are unsafe, silence on LGBTQ+ people

  • A Venezuelan mother and daughter walk though a river in the jungle. The banks are piled high with discarded clothes and tents.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘We’re flooded with trash’: pollution crisis as 500,000 migrants a year attempt perilous Darién Gap crossing

9 September 2024

  • Environmentalists mark World Water Day in San Salvador holding posters that read: ‘I fight for life, I defend water’, while one marcher holds a picture of slain Indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres.

    The age of extinction
    Almost 200 people killed last year trying to defend the environment, report finds

    Latin America was the most deadly region in which to defend ecosystems from mining and deforestation, with Indigenous people among half the dead
  • Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez raise their hands together in a victorious gesture as they address supporters, 30 July 2024

    Anti-Maduro campaign ‘stronger than ever’ after Venezuelan election, says Machado

    Opposition leader María Corina Machado said exile of key figure Edmundo González ‘changes absolutely nothing’

    • Ex-fashion mogul Peter Nygard sentenced to 11 years for sexual assault

    • Weather tracker
      Weather tracker: Francine looking likely to be next Atlantic hurricane

    • González is Venezuela’s ‘best hope for democracy’, says Blinken, as leader vows to fight on

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