Issue Feb 14-20 2024: Former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), faces drug trafficking charges in New York after being accused of participating in and protecting a network that sent more than 500 tons of cocaine to the United States between 2004 and 2022.
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Issue Feb 14-20 2024: Last February 5, noted spokesperson for the neoliberal regime Jesús Silva Herzog Márquez (JSHM) wrote an article, “Desmantelamiento constitucional,” in which he asserted that Mexico’s president “wants to rip from the Constitution everything that makes it an imperative norm and leave it as an inert text…there is no precedent in Mexican
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Issue Feb 14-20 2024: Las Antillas (“The Antilles”) are a series of islands with high levels of biological diversity, particularly in terms of fauna, with the Dominican Republic boasting one of the highest levels of biodiversity in the Caribbean.
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Issue Feb 14-20 2024: The remake of the TV Globo program Renascer will feature the character José Inocêncio, played by Marcos Palmeira and inspired by the Swiss agriculturist Ernst Götsch.
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Issue Feb 14-20 2024: The comparison made by Brazilian President Lula da Silva between Israel’s massacre of Palestinian civilians to the massacre of Jews during the Holocaust should be analyzed on two fronts: whether it is historically appropriate, and what its political implications are, both internal and external.
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Issue Feb 14-20 2024: Since 2018, Latin American and Caribbean migration northward to the United States has increased at a predictable rate.
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Issue Feb 14-20 2024: In 2023, criminal organizations earned 820 million dollars transporting migrants through the Darien jungle, according to Panamanian authorities.
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Issue Feb 14-20 2024: The samba school Unidos da Viradouro won first place for the third time at Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro 2024, a year which marks the Marquês de Sapucaí Sambadrome’s 40th anniversary.
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Issue Feb 14-20 2024: The increase of trade winds and decreasing cloud cover during the summer augment the production of wind and solar energy in parts of Costa Rica, such as Los Santos, San Carlos, and Guanacaste.
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Issue Feb 14-20 2024: Brazilian councilwoman and activist Marielle Franco became an international symbol after her assassination in Rio de Janeiro in 2018.
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