LIMA (AP) — Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo on Monday was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant
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This Brazilian dog is a footvolley star. He teaches beachgoers how to play their own game
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s main beaches bustle with commotion on sunny weekends. But activity ground to a near standstill on one
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Woman arrested after taking corpse to sign for bank loan in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO — A woman has been arrested in Brazil after she brought a 68-year-old man who had been dead for hours into a
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For Haitian diaspora, gang violence back home is personal as hopes dim for eventual return
TIJUANA (AP) — When Vivianne Petit Frere fled her native Haiti for Brazil in 2019 and later walked through the Panamanian jungle and on to
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Haiti’s neighbors prepare for ‘drastic escalation’ in violence after jailbreak
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s neighbors on Monday began shoring up their defenses and recalling embassy staff as a gang conflict in the Caribbean nation escalated
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UK Court Convicts Chairman of Failed Harlequin Group For $274M Carib Fraud
LONDON — The chairman of failed luxury Caribbean hotel and resort developer Harlequin Group was convicted on Wednesday of defrauding $274 million from more than
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Brazil’s COVID-19 Numbers Make Latin America And Caribbean Look Bad
BRASILIA — Coronavirus cases in Latin America and the Caribbean surged on Sunday, briefly overtaking the total in North America thanks to Brazil’s numbers alone,
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