#theguardian.com. × The São Paulo connection: a Brazilian gang is spreading its cocaine business into Australia. The PCC – First Capital Command – formed in a Sāo Paulo prison but is now spreading its tentacles around the world
#Feb.27.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Power back on in Chile after blackout leaves millions in dark. Electricity restored to almost all affected regions as investigation under way into how outage occurred
#Feb.26.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Colombia risks return to violent past, says architect of landmark peace deal. Exclusive: The bloody foundering of President Gustavo Petro’s ‘Total Peace’ strategy is a ‘national failure’, says Juan Manuel Santos, who ended war with Farc guerrillas in 2016
#Feb.26.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Chile hit by major blackout, leaving millions without electricity. State of emergency and overnight curfew declared after blackout strands commuters and knocks out traffic lights
#Feb.25.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Colombian city faces worst violence in decades as armed groups wreak havoc. Cúcuta imposes curfew as National Liberation Army (ELN) clashes with army in province bordering Venezuela
#Feb.23.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Brazilian city in Amazon declares emergency after huge sinkholes appear. In Buriticupu, about 1,200 people risk losing their homes, and residents have seen the problem escalate in 30 years
#Feb.21.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × US flies 177 deportees from Guantánamo to Honduras en route to Venezuela. Move apparently empties military facility on Cuban base of migrant detainees and comes in wake of ACLU lawsuit
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Argentina court drops charges against three people over Liam Payne death. Charges of criminal negligence dropped against three key defendants over death of British singer in October
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Brazilians hail strength of democracy as Bolsonaro is called to account. ‘In Brazil coup-mongers go to jail. In the US they get back into the White House,’ says one leading politician
#Feb.19.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Trump’s media group sues Brazil justice weighing Bolsonaro indictment. Florida lawsuit accuses Alexandre de Moraes of violating free speech rights of far-right Brazilian influencer
#Feb.19.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Bolsonaro indictment leaves Brazil’s tropical Trump staring at prospect of jail. The ex-president faces charges of a murderous conspiracy while his US counterpart has surged back to power
#Feb.19.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × British journalist missing in Brazil for 11 days. Foreign correspondents’ association urges authorities to step up search for Charlotte Alice Peet, 32
#Feb.19.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Jair Bolsonaro charged over alleged far-right coup plot to seize power in Brazil. Former president has denied breaking the law, while attorney general alleges plot included a plan to poison Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
#Feb.19.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Brazil mayor was shot in ‘fake attack’ for election boost – but still lost in landslide. José Aprígio da Silva was seriously hurt in October by assailants with assault rifles but police say it was faked
#Feb.18.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Six soldiers in Guyana injured in clash with suspected Venezuela-based gang. Guyana plans to ‘take all necessary measures’ for security as tensions likely to further rise between the two countries
#Feb.18.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Meta plans to link US and India with world’s longest undersea cable project. Project Waterworth, which involves cable longer than Earth’s circumference, to also reach South Africa and Brazil
#Feb.17.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Argentina opposition calls for impeachment of Javier Milei after cryptocurrency collapse. President endorsed $Libra crypto token on Friday before it collapsed, leading some to call it a financial ‘rug pull’
#Feb.17.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Brazil asks UN to ditch proposed levy on global shipping. Those supporting the deal hope it will raise billions to help poor countries deal with climate breakdown
#Feb.17.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Shakira cancels Lima concert after being hospitalised during global tour. The Colombian star went to the emergency room in Peru’s capital on Saturday night, days after launching her first worldwide tour in seven years
#Feb.16.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Contraception for capybaras: Buenos Aires suburb’s rodent plan stirs debate. Government in Nordelta approves plans to control numbers of world’s largest rodent – but not all are in agreement
#Feb.16.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘I closed my eyes to brace for impact’: the man who escaped a whale’s mouth. Adrián Simancas encountered a humpback off Chile’s coast – but scientists say he was never at risk of being swallowed
#Feb.15.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Just a fluke: whale spits out kayaker in incident captured on camera. ‘I thought I was dead,’ said the kayaker, who was let go by humpback off the Chilean coast after a few seconds
#Feb.13.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Trump is driving China and South America’s relationship to its ‘best moment’. The US is targeting its own allies and its withdrawal from the region has left a power vacuum for China to fill in
#Feb.12.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Intense heatwave in southern Brazil forces schools to suspend return. Record highs delay start of classes in Rio Grande do Sul, where floods fueled by climate crisis left 180 dead last May
#Feb.12.2025 ×
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