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For the second time in two years, Chile is electing a body to rewrite its dictatorship-era constitution

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Chile holds vote to elect new body to rewrite constitution

Chileans voted on Sunday to elect the 50 members of a committee that will write a new constitution to replace the dictatorship-era one that...

AFPMay 7, 2023

Retired Bolivian general Gary Prado Salmon was left in a wheelchair after he was accidentally shot in the spine in 1981

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Bolivian general who captured ‘Che’ Guevara dies

Bolivian general Gary Prado Salmon, who captured communist revolutionary icon Ernesto “Che” Guevara in 1967, died on Saturday aged 84, his son revealed on...

AFPMay 7, 2023

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the administration of US President Joe Biden of 'looting' over the proposed sale of Caracas' most valuable overseas asset

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Maduro accuses Biden administration of ‘looting’ Venezuelan oil firm

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday accused US President Joe Biden’s government of “looting” over the proposed sale of Caracas’ most valuable overseas asset,...

AFPMay 5, 2023

Senate President Roy Barreras (L) alongside Colombian President Gustavo Petro on August 7, 2022

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Top Colombian court nullifies election of key Petro ally

Colombia’s top administrative court annulled on Thursday the election of the Senate president, Roy Barreras, a key figure in the ambitious reform drive of...

AFPMay 5, 2023

Of the 49 people killed during the protests in Peru, 39 died from gunshot wounds, Human Rights Watch said

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Rights group accuses Peru of condoning protester killings

Human Rights Watch has accused Peru’s authorities of turning a blind eye as security forces committed “extrajudicial and arbitrary” killings of protesters in recent...

AFPApril 26, 2023

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov (left) meets with Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Havana

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Lavrov thanks Cuba for ‘full understanding’ on Ukraine invasion

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday thanked Cuba for its “full understanding” over the war in Ukraine as he began a visit to...

AFPApril 20, 2023

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, won reelection in 2022 and has made battling a supposed progressive 'woke' ideology a central concern of his second term

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Florida extends ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law to all school years

Florida on Wednesday extended its controversial ban on lessons related to gender identity and sexual orientation to all school grades, a move pushed by...

AFPApril 19, 2023

Tamara Adrian, pictured in 2016, was Venezuela's first trans legislator when elected to Congress in 2015

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Trans ex-lawmaker to contest Venezuela opposition primaries

A transgender former legislator and LGBTQ activist, Tamara Adrian, announced her candidacy Thursday in Venezuela’s opposition primaries that will determine who challenges President Nicolas...

AFPApril 13, 2023