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It said late Monday the debt includes all general obligation bonds that were issued in 2012 and 2014 in “clear violation” of debt limits established by the island’s Constitution.

It has had a devastating effect on owners and employees of the country’s 24,185 private bed-and-breakfasts and 2,170 private restaurants known as paladares.

Some residents and local rights groups say the killers were gang members working with corrupt police to seize territory in the La Saline gang war.

Last year, Francis defended a bishop accused of covering for a notorious sexual predator in Chile.

The audience giggled, hooted, clapped and tapped their feet throughout Friday’s night’s performance.

A video circulating on social media purports to show the moment in which Juan Guaidó is intercepted on his way to an anti-government “Citizens’ Meeting” in the port city of La Guaira.

The letter, circulating widely on social media, was accompanied by a photograph of judge Rafael Solís Cerda’s government-issued ID.

The White House has directed the Army Corps of Engineers to comb through its budget, including $13.9 billion in emergency funds that Congress earmarked last year.

Seventeen Latin American governments, the United States and Canada rejected the legitimacy of Maduro’s next term in a measure adopted Thursday.

Alex Friedmann, associate director of the Human Rights Defense Center, has submitted shareholder resolutions on the subject for a vote at the companies’ annual meetings.

There aren’t enough tanker trucks, and lines have stretched for hours at gas stations in outlying states this week.

One by one, many of the victims of Latin America’s longest-running armed conflict are providing brutal testimony to a new Special Peace Jurisdiction that is one of the most controversial aspects of the 2016 peace accord between Colombia’s government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

The U.N. anti-corruption commission, known by its initials as the CICIG, has angered President Jimmy Morales after it helped investigate him, his sons and his brother on accusations of corruption they deny.

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More than 600 fentanyl-related overdoses and 60 deaths were reported in Puerto Rico in 2017, largely before Hurricane María, up from 200 and eight the previous year.

The country will slash income and corporate taxes to 20 percent from 30 percent for 43 municipalities in six states.

In a statement to The Associated Press, spokesman Alessandro Gisotti stressed that the allegations against Gustavo Zanchetta.

In a statement Thursday, the ministry said through its embassy that it lamented any violent acts along its border. It reiterated its commitment to the safety of migrants.

The criticisms came as the Zapatistas celebrated the 25th anniversary of their brief armed uprising in 1994.

One of the orders issued late Tuesday likely will make it all but impossible for new lands to be identified and demarcated for indigenous communities.

White flowers and flickering candles sat atop a low table inside the simple wooden home in remote, rural Guatemala. Nearby was a small pair of rubber boots, sized to fit an 8-year-old.