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The Presidential election in Guatemala, which will be decided on Sunday, in a second and final round of voting, initially appeared to be over before it began. Within two months of the start of the race, at least three prominent candidates…

The great Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa is best known in the United States for his novels, his crucial contribution to the Latin American Boom beginning in the nineteen-sixties, and his 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Some Americans…

VC firm Quona Capital announces close of its third fund at $332 mnOla to invest Rs 7,614 cr in TN to make electric cars, lithium-ion cellsEPFO aims to invest more in equity for younger members, expand horizonI-T dept sends notices to firms…

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts.The prescription drug Ozempic (semaglutide) was designed to manage diabetes and obesity. But it has…

Another Chinese spy balloon is currently making its way over Latin America, Pentagon officials said Friday night. “We are seeing reports of a balloon transiting Latin America. We now assess it is another Chinese…

A group of Hispanic state lawmakers in Connecticut are trying to ban use of the word “Latinx” from official government documents — claiming the term is “offensive” to Spanish-speakers. Five Hispanic Democrats…

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil’s president on Sunday, delivering a searing indictment of far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro and vowing a drastic change of course to rescue a nation plagued by…

Police on Wednesday detained Luis Fernando Camacho, the main opposition leader in Bolivia who is also governor of the Santa Cruz region, a dramatic action that quickly led to renewed social unrest. Camacho was detained as part of a…

The 1,200 indigenous Guna people on the island of Gardi Sugdub in Panama can’t hang on much longer. They’re moving next year to the mainland because their land is being inundated by the rising Caribbean amid climate change.They’ll become…

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday the number of new monkeypox cases fell 20% globally last week, but new cases increased in the Americas and said there is still “intense transmission" of the disease. At a news briefing at…