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July 13, 2025

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro seeks show of strength, risking backfire

September 8, 2021 Debora Alvares and David Biller, Associated Press

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro got a rousing reception from tens of thousands of people gathered in the capital Tuesday in an Independence Day show of support for the right-wing leader embroiled in […]

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Ecuador picks conservative for president; Peru sets runoff

April 12, 2021 Regina Garcia Cano and Gonzalo Solano, Associated Press

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador will be led for the next four years by a conservative businessman after voters on Sunday rebuffed a left-leaning movement that yielded an economic boom and then a recession since taking […]

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Divided Ecuador heads to presidential runoff ballot in April

February 11, 2021 Gonzalo Solano and Regina Garcia Cano, Associated Press

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador is headed to a runoff presidential election in April with its deep political divisions evident after the first round of voting, which saw a young leftist backed by a convicted-but-popular former […]

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Ecuador to pick new president amid deepening economic crisis

February 5, 2021 Regina Garcia Cano and Gonzalo Solano, Associated Press

QUITO, Ecuador — Evidence of the crisis in Ecuador is everywhere: shuttered restaurants, soaring oxygen tank prices and countless “for sale” and “for rent” signs hanging from buildings. The South American country’s beleaguered economy and […]

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Peru’s Congress selects centrist lawmaker to be new leader

November 17, 2020 Franklin Briceno, Associated Press

LIMA, Peru — Peru’s political crisis appeared on the verge of resolution as Congress cleared the way for an elder statesman and consensus candidate to become the country’s third president in a week. People waved […]

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Failed Maduro coup leader flew on pro-govt magnate’s plane

May 30, 2020 Joshua Goodman, Associated Press

MIAMI — It was mid-January and Jordan Goudreau was itching to get going on a secret plan to raid Venezuela and arrest President Nicolás Maduro when the former special forces commando flew to the city […]

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Guyana elects leader as vast oil boom dawns

March 5, 2020 Bert Wilkinson, Associated Press

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana voted for a new government in a bruising fight for control of a tiny South American country whose oil revenues in the next decade could make it one of the wealthiest […]

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