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Puerto Rico gov signs bill to privatize power company assets
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor has signed a historic bill to privatize the U.S. territory’s troubled power company in a move many hope will help minimize power outages that have followed…
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4 killed and 25 arrested after a shooting in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City prosecutors say four people are dead and 25 arrested after a series of shootings apparently related to drug dealing. Police responding to reports of drug deals found two people…
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Many in Puerto Rico still under tarps as storm threat looms
Blue tarps or sturdier plastic sheets are still widely visible around the island, though FEMA and local government agencies say they can’t say for certain how many roofs still need to be replaced.
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3 more killed as Nicaragua’s political unrest hits 2 months
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Three people were shot dead in the city of Masaya as security forces and allied groups tried to regain control of the area, a human rights group reported Tuesday, the two-month…
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Venezuela’s socialist boss to head Constitutional Assembly
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s all-powerful National Constitutional Assembly has named as its new chief a man deemed by U.S. officials to be an international drug trafficker. Socialist party boss Diosdado Cabello took the oath…
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3 gay rights activists shot to death in southern Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials say three LGBTQ activists have been shot dead and left along a highway in the troubled southern state of Guerrero. Guerrero security spokesman Roberto Alvarez says the bodies were…
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Vatican promises to hear more abuse complaints in Chile
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A papal envoy looking into clerical sexual abuse is leaving Chile, but he says the Vatican will continue collecting testimony from people who allege they were sexually abused. Maltese Archbishop Charles…
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Colombian drug kingpin caught in Argentina gets 31 years
MIAMI (AP) — A convicted Colombian drug cartel leader who went undercover to inform on Mexican kingpin “El Chapo” and other major traffickers has been sentenced to 31 years in prison. The Miami Herald reports…
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In Mexico, longtime foes ‘AMLO’ and elite getting pragmatic
MEXICO CITY (AP) — On the campaign trail, presidential front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has railed against a corrupt and “rapacious minority” of business executives who oppose him because they know they will have to…
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Recording of crying children at border adds to outrage
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — An audio recording that appears to capture the heartbreaking voices of small Spanish-speaking children crying out for their parents at a U.S. immigration facility took center stage Monday in the growing…
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Former Tropical Storm Carlotta dissipates off Mexico coast
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former Tropical Storm Carlotta weakened into a remnant low off Mexico’s southwestern Pacific coast Monday night, though forecasters said its rains still posed a threat of flash flooding and mudslides on…
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US, Amnesty International call for justice in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The United States’ top diplomat and a global human rights group called on the Honduran government Monday to hold members of its security forces responsible for alleged abuses after November’s elections.…
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Church suspends talks to ease Nicaragua political crisis
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s Roman Catholic hierarchy has suspended a dialogue with the government aimed at ending a two-month political crisis. The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua says the government has not met an agreed…
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Court includes Ecuador’s ex-President Correa in kidnap probe
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s highest court has ordered former President Rafael Correa included in an investigation into a 2012 botched kidnapping of an opposition lawmaker. The judge in charge of the case gave Correa…
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H. Clinton: Separating families at border a ‘moral crisis’
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday called the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that has separated children from their parents at the southern U.S. border “a moral and humanitarian…
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