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  • Investigations

There will be no federal charges in Shanquella Robinson's death, the DOJ says

Shanquella Robinson, 25, of Charlotte, N.C., was killed last October while vacationing in Mexico with friends.

April 13, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Foreign Ministry officers hold portraits beside the coffins of Guatemalan migrants whose remains arrived at the La Aurora Air Force Base in Guatemala City on Tuesday. The Mexican Air Force transported the bodies of 17 migrants who died in a fire at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

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  • Latin America

Mexico immigration agency chief will be charged in migrant center fire that killed 40

Mexican federal prosecutors say Francisco Garduño was remiss in not preventing the disaster in Ciudad Juárez last month despite earlier indications of problems at his agency's detention centers.

April 12, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A student cries after the 2019 attack on a public school in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The attack, by two former students, resulted in 10 deaths, including the attackers, who turned their weapons on themselves. It was one of the deadliest school attacks in the country's history.

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  • Global Health

School attacks are on the rise in Brazil, prompting debate over solutions

The numbers are far less than in the U.S. but school attacks are definitely on the increase, prompting soul-searching — and a national debate over strategies to prevent future tragedies.

April 12, 2023
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By:
  • Jill Langlois
Workers unload boxes of mayonnaise for inspection by customs officials at a warehouse in the Venezuelan border town of San Antonio del Táchira.

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  • Latin America

Venezuela starts to see some perks of renewed ties with Colombia

Cross-border trade between Colombia and Venezuela has slowly opened up after the countries reengaged following years of bad relations.

April 04, 2023
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By:
  • John Otis
President Biden walks along the US-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas, on January 8, 2023.

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  • Politics

Biden has only difficult options for dealing with migration

The Biden administration has very few options to deal with migrant families at the border when Title 42 lifts next month. It's likely to be one of President Biden's biggest challenges.

April 03, 2023
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
A Venezuelan migrant sits on the sidewalk where an altar was created with candles and photos outside the Mexican immigration processing center that was the site of a deadly fire, as migrants wake up after spending the night on the sidewalk in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on Thursday.

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  • Latin America

Arrest orders are issued for 6 people in the deadly Mexican immigration center fire

Three officials from Mexico's immigration agency, two private security guards and the migrant accused of starting the fire, which killed at least 39, face charges of homicide and causing injury.

March 31, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro greets supporters from a window at the Liberal Party headquarters in Brasília on Thursday after arriving back in Brazil on a commercial flight from Orlando, Fla.

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  • Latin America

Former President Bolsonaro returns to Brazil after three months in Florida

The far-right leader went to Florida after losing his bid for re-election, days before his rival was inaugurated. While in Florida, Bolsonaro frequently met with supporters and conservative groups.

March 30, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn and
  • Kaitlyn Radde
A man holds a candle during a vigil on Tuesday for the victims of a fire at an immigration detention center that killed dozens, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Video footage from inside the facility appears to show officials walking away from men trapped inside a cell as flames roared around them.

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  • Latin America

The Ciudad Juárez detention fire shows inhumane conditions for migrants, advocates say

Migrants say they are facing increased harassment and unabashed cruelty by local, state and federal authorities as permanent residents' general attitudes toward immigrants shift.

March 30, 2023
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen leaves a hotel in New York, Wednesday, March 29, 2023.

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  • World

Taiwan's president arrives in the U.S. amid warnings from China

Taiwan's president is in the United States as part of a multi-day itinerary that will take the leader of the Asian democratic island through Central and North America.

March 30, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • John Ruwitch
Activists post signs Wednesday as they protest outside a migration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a day after dozens of migrants died as a result of the fire.

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  • Latin America

Mexico investigates 8 workers and officials over the fatal fire at a migrant facility

Authorities said Wednesday that they're looking into the actions of eight people for possible misconduct at the detention center, where a fire killed 39 men.

March 30, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
An image taken from a video shows ambulances and rescue team staffers outside an immigration center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Tuesday.

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  • World

39 migrants are dead, 29 injured after a fire at an immigration facility in Mexico

At least 39 migrants are dead following a fire Monday in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across the U.S. border. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the migrants started the fire out of despair.

March 28, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson,
  • Bill Chappell,
  • and 1 more
Homes are destroyed after a deadly landslide that buried dozens of homes in Alausi, Ecuador, pictured on Monday.

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  • Latin America

At least 16 people were killed in a landslide in central Ecuador

The landslide in Alausí, about 137 miles south of the capital, Quito, affected an estimated 500 people and 163 homes. Rescuers frantically searched for survivors.

March 27, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Xavier "Chabelo" Lopez sticks out his tongue during a telethon event in 2015. Lopez, a Mexican children's comic better known by his stage name "Chabelo," died at the age of 88, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wrote Saturday.

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  • Obituaries

Mexican children's comic Chabelo dies at 88

Xavier López, a Mexican children's comic better known by his stage name "Chabelo," hosted the Sunday variety show En Familia con Chabelo for an astonishing 48 years from 1967 to 2015.

March 27, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Honduras Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina Garcia, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang shake hands following the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, at a ceremony in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Sunday, March 26, 2023.

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  • Latin America

Honduras establishes ties with China after break from Taiwan

Honduras established diplomatic ties with China on Sunday after breaking off relations with Taiwan, which is increasingly isolated and now recognized by only 13 sovereign states.

March 27, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A man takes a photo of a building that collapsed after an earthquake shook Machala, Ecuador, on Saturday.

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  • Latin America

A strong earthquake has killed at least 15 in Ecuador and 1 in Peru

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 6.8 magnitude earthquake centered just off the Pacific Coast, about 50 miles south of Guayaquil, Ecuador's second-largest city.

March 19, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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