Bolivian president Luis Arce (left) and vice president David Choquehuanca greet supporters gathered at Plaza Murillo in La Paz, Bolivia, after order had been restored.
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Mexico will elect its first woman president on Sunday.
Mexican police at the Topo Chico prison in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, where scores of people died in a prison fire and riot in 2016.
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Many young Mexican men that are working in precarious conditions are drawn into the fold of drug cartels.
The funeral of Bertha Gisela Gaytan, a mayoral candidate for the municipality of Celaya, Mexico, who was shot dead after her first campaign rally on April 1 2024.
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Mexican elections have been marred by political violence for years, and this year will be no different.
Prisoners at the Terrorism Confinement Centre, a prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, built to house 40,000 gang members convicted or detained.
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Nearly all countries in the region have criminalised either femicide or feminicide, which has had a tremendous impact on society.
Girls carry a dying sheep in the Cconchaccota community of the Apurimac region of Peru as more than 3,000 communities in the central and southern Andes experience its driest period in half a century in November 2022.
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Purple was highly valued and associated with royalty, power, and prestige in various ancient cultures, including the Roman and Byzantine Empires. So how did red creep its way in?
Chaos on the streets of Port-au-Prince.
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Early modern societies in Latin America and Spain saw a convergence of traditional medical knowledge and the professionalization of medicine. The resulting differences in access to care endure today.
Do Argentinians have the patience for their new president’s shock therapy?
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Argentina is already feeling the sting of its new president’s policies – but Javier Milei is pressing ahead with ever-more radical plans to overhaul the economy.
Brazilian President Lula greets journalists, in Brasilia, one year after rioters stormed the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court buildings.
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Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford