Latin America

Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, looks on after speaking from his official residence at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on Nov. 1, 2022.

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Brazil's Supreme Court agrees to investigate former President Jair Bolsonaro for riot

1:37am January 14, 2023

by The Associated Press

Brazil's Supreme Court granted the request from the prosecutor general's office to include Bolsonaro in the wider investigation, citing a video he posted on Facebook two days after the riot.

A view through a cracked window in Brazil's presidential office building looking out at Three Powers Square in Brasília, where supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed and ransacked government buildings Sunday.

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Democrats push for Bolsonaro to be booted from the U.S. as Brazil investigates riots

1:49pm January 12, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

Brazil is widening its investigations into how thousands of supporters of former president ransacked government buildings. But with Jair Bolsonaro still in Florida, Democratic lawmakers want him out.

Residents carry a coffin with a sign that reads in Spanish: "Dina killed me with bullets" referring to President Dina Boluarte, during a funeral procession for protesters and others killed during clashes with police in Juliaca, Peru, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023.

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Antigovernment protests spread across Peru and near tourist draw of Machu Picchu

5:23am January 12, 2023

by The Associated Press

Protests against Peruvian President Dina Boluarte's government that have left dozens of people dead since they began a month ago spread through the south of the Andean country.

Deadly antigovernment protests are spreading across Peru

5:09am January 12, 2023

Anti-government protests have killed at least 47 people in Peru over the past month. Just this week, 17 civilians and a police officer died in clashes and the unrest is spreading.

Politics & Government

The summit of North American leaders, held in Mexico, has come to an end

7:22am January 11, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

It was meeting among the leaders of Mexico, the United States and Canada. But all eyes were on President Biden and his Mexican counterpart, whose initial meetings were awkward to say the least.

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2 Brazilian security officials are accused of colluding with rioters

5:11am January 11, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

Authorities in Brazil issued arrest warrants and are searching for those who aided anti-government rioters in Sunday's attack on official buildings in the South American nation's capital.

The attack on Brazil's Congress was stoked by social media

5:11am January 11, 2023

The attack on Brazil's Congress was organized publicly online. Despite being on high alert, social media companies missed signs that their platforms were being used to plan violence.

Brazil officials are looking into why rioters saw such little resistance from police

5:59pm January 10, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

Authorities in Brazil are investigating the security and intelligence breakdown that led to the attack on the country's capital last Sunday.

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Where similarities between government attacks in Brazil and the U.S. begin — and end

5:59pm January 10, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Guilherme Casarões, political science professor in Brazil, about the parallels between Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro in the wake of riots in the Brazilian capital.

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Colombian Vice President Francia Marquez speaks at a museum in Bogota on Oct. 3, 2022. Marquez said on Tuesday that her security team found more than seven kilos of explosives buried next to a rural road that leads to her home.

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Colombia's VP says a bomb discovered near her home was an assassination attempt

4:55pm January 10, 2023

by The Associated Press

Vice President Francia Marquez said that her security team found more than seven kilos of explosives buried next to a rural road that leads to her home. She has previously faced death threats.