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Indigenous Families In Guatemala Forced To Flee After Armed Attack

By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, Mon. Aug., 17, 2020 (Reuters) - Forty indigenous families have fled their homes in north Guatemala after an armed...
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This Latin American Nation Struggles To Rescue Maids From Slavery

By Fabio Teixeira RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Fri. Aug 14, 2020 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Whenever Elisa goes out in her small town in northeastern...
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Latin American State Agrees To Produce Russian COVID-19 Vaccine

By Anthony Boadle and Pedro Fonseca BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 12 (Reuters) - A Brazilian technology institute said on Wednesday it expects to produce a...
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Why A Growing Force In Brazil Is Charging That President Jair...

By Vijay Prashad Globetrotter, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. Aug. 12, 2020: Jhuliana Rodrigues works as a nurse technician at the Hospital São Vicente in Jundiaí,...
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Govt Supporters Take Over Opposition HQ In This South American Nation

CARACAS, Venezuela, Tues. Aug 111, 2020 (Reuters) - A Venezuelan opposition party said government sympathizers who had taken over its headquarters threw tear gas...
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Latin America Now Has Over 5 Million Cases Of Coronavirus

News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Mon. Aug. 10, 2020: There are now over 5 million cases of coronavirus in Latin America, a News Americas...
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This Former Latin American Minister Has Been Charged For Money Laundering

By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, Fri. Aug. 7, 2020 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors charged Guatemalan former Economy Minister Asisclo Valladares this week with helping...
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Second Journalist Murdered In Under A Week

MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Thurs. Aug 6, 2020 (Reuters) - Unidentified assailants shot a journalist dead outside his home in the western Mexican state of...
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Where Have All These Women Gone?

By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA, Colombia, Weds. Aug 5, 2020 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 900 women and girls have gone missing in one Latin...
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Garifuna Leaders In Honduras Fear For Their Survival After Leaders Are...

By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA, Colombia, Tues. Aug. 4, 2020 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - There has been no word of the five Black Honduran indigenous men...