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Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega has consolidated his power since popular protests erupted in 2018.

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Nicaragua strips 94 political opponents of citizenship

1:10pm February 16, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

President Daniel Ortega intensifies his political crackdown, stripping 94 of the most prominent Nicaraguan writers, journalists and human rights activists of citizenship. They lose all their rights.

Scientists found high levels of poison in poet Pablo Neruda's remains

8:16am February 16, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

Relatives say a report by international forensic experts confirms their decades-long suspicions that Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda was poisoned.

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Chilean writer, poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda answers journalists' questions in 1971.

Famous poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned after a coup, according to a new report

7:07pm February 15, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

His nephew says scientists found high levels of the bacterium that can cause botulism poisoning. He says it proves that his uncle was injected with the poison at a hospital immediately after the coup.

An image of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, right, is displayed as Markenzy Lapointe, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, speaks speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, in Miami.

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U.S. arrests 4 in Florida over the assassination of Haitian president

2:45am February 15, 2023

by The Associated Press

U.S. authorities have arrested four more people in the slaying of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, including the owner of a Miami-area security company, prosecutors announced.

Trial for Mexico's former top drug cop is underway over cartel bribery accusations

8:23pm February 13, 2023

Guilty or innocent, the drug-corruption trial in New York of high-ranking former Mexican government official, Genaro Garcia Luna, shows the limits of the U.S. to win its decades-long "war on drugs."

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Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Biden and Brazil's Lula find common ground against violent extremism

7:20pm February 10, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

It was just over a month ago that hundreds of extremist supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, stormed the capital and ransacked the Congress, Supreme Court and the presidential offices.

Protest against the detention of Nicaraguan bishop and regime critic Bishop Rolando Alvarez.

Nicaragua sentences Catholic bishop to 26 years in prison

7:10pm February 10, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez refused to leave Nicaragua with other political prisoners released on Thursday.

Brazil's president hopes to revive ties with the U.S. during White House visit

5:12am February 10, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

Brazil's new leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva meets Friday with President Biden. The two presidents have a lot in common — both Brazil and the U.S. suffered attacks by right-wing extremists.

A man holds a Nicaraguan flag in favor of peace in Nicaragua.

Nicaragua has freed 222 political prisoners and sent them to the U.S.

6:17pm February 09, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

On state television a judge said the government had decided to "deport" the prisoners, saying they had been declared traitors and can never again serve public office.

Nicaragua frees almost all of its political prisoners

6:04pm February 09, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

In a surprise move from an increasingly authoritarian government, Nicaragua has freed almost all of its political prisoners. More than 200 were put on a plane and flown to Washington, D.C.

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