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  • People hold anti-Maduro signs in the air.

    Evidence shows Venezuela’s election was stolen – but will Maduro budge?

    Analyses indicate Nicolás Maduro lost the presidential election, but country’s leader shows no signs of stepping aside
  • Juliane Diller in 1972, arriving at Frankfurt airport to live a more peaceful life in Germany

    How we survive
    A bolt of lightning struck my plane – and I plunged 3,000m into a rainforest

    Juliane Diller was 17 when the aircraft she and her mother were on exploded. Of the 92 people on board, Juliane was the only survivor – and it would take her 11 days to walk to safety
  • Radical.

    Radical review – Mexico’s heartwarming answer to Dead Poets Society makes the grade

    Based on the true story of an inspiring teacher arriving in an impoverished school, this bullies you into uplift but succeeds thanks to its top quality cast
  • A woman waves and holds the Venezuelan flag from the center of a truck filled with people and decorated with political posters

    Venezuela opposition leaders urge army and police to abandon Nicolás Maduro

    Edmundo González and María Corina Machado call on officials to ‘join the side of the people’ after Maduro enforces post-election crackdown
  • A statue of a man wearing a red shirt sits inside a souvenir shop, with magnets and other memorabilia hanging up.

    Colombian congress debates banning souvenirs of drug lord Pablo Escobar

    Vendors selling to tourists criticize proposal, but those wanting to shed the country’s mafia boss image praise it
    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      Narco folly: inside the crumbling Honduran zoo built by a drug cartel

    • The Latin American left is smart not to pick a side over Venezuela’s contested election result

      Jordana Timerman
    • Nicolás Maduro vows to ‘pulverise’ challenge to his rule after disputed Venezuela election

  • Composite of the two women celebrating

    Jubilation in Caribbean at St Lucia’s and Dominica’s first Olympic medals

  • María Corina Machado (c) next to Delsa Solorzano (third left), leader of the opposition Encuentro ciudadano party, during a protest in Caracas

    Huge crowds return to Venezuela’s streets to protest against Maduro

  • A teargas can lands in front of demonstrators during a protest against President Nicolás Maduro’s government in Caracas on Monday.

    ‘Maduro has lost the streets’: in Venezuela’s barrios, former loyal voters risk all in protests

  • Venezuela presidential candidate Edmundo González, centre, with opposition leader María Corina Machado, left, in front of UN headquarters during a rally in Caracas this week after the disputed election

    Venezuela: Blinken congratulates González on winning election as more countries come out against Maduro

  • Stephen Lawrence

    Stephen Lawrence’s father says he was not told son’s body was being exhumed

  • Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado  hugs presidential candidate Edmundo González

    Venezuela election: US recognises opposition candidate Edmundo González as winner

  • Closeup of a midge on a person’s hand

    Outbreak of Oropouche virus in Brazil should be a ‘wake-up call’, say experts

  • An armed man in fatigues and combat gear watches a pick-up truck burn

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    The lawless mining gangs targeting the Amazon’s precious green energy minerals

  • ‘We didn’t sign that treaty’: in Canada, the Anishinaabe fight for land they never gave up

  • UN calls for foreign security forces to be deployed faster to quash Haiti gang wars

  • Stephen Lawrence

    Stephen Lawrence’s body to be returned to UK 31 years after murder

  • Large industrial buildings and car parks on a green plain

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Anger mounts over environmental cost of Google datacentre in Uruguay

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