El Salvador’s efforts to improve the educational level in the country seem to be falling short, with rundown schools, especially in rural areas, and little progress in overcoming illiteracy. In almost a
The United States is in talks to establish a $20 billion swap line with Argentina and is prepared to purchase the country’s dollar bonds, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday. The
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The “spied upon” headline from El Pais is unequivocal. The story, in the newspaper’s English-language edition, says that Nicaraguans live in “a climate of permanent surveillance” in which they distrust even their
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A big Cadillac limo with Jersey plates was parked down the block. Few locals in East Harlem even owned cars, let alone new ones. Curious, I asked the street kids what’s up.
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Former President Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison after Brazil’s Supreme Court found him guilty of orchestrating a coup to cling to power following his
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When I was in graduate school, I audited a class taught by Friedrich Katz (1927–2010), one of the great historians of Mexico of his generation. During the Second World War, Katz’s father
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The arrest of multiple Mexican Navy officers this week in connection with an alleged billion-dollar fuel-smuggling operation has sent shockwaves through one of the country’s most trusted institutions, raising concerns about corruption
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Mexico is preparing to raise tariffs on goods imported from countries that are not covered by free trade agreements, while ensuring that the duties remain compliant with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules,
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Anglo American Plc is in advanced talks to acquire Canada’s Teck Resources Ltd., in what could become the largest mining deal in more than a decade, just over a year after Anglo
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Newly declassified documents from the John F. Kennedy assassination records, released earlier this year and compiled by the National Security Archive, have unveiled a trove of covert CIA operations in Colombia during
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President Donald Trump euphorically concluded his White House press conference on September 2 with breaking news: the US military had just blown up a small motor vessel in the middle of the
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