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Far-right populists worldwide are using AI to bypass traditional media gatekeepers and spread disinformation at scale. Nowhere is that more true than Brazil, which has been rocked by political disinformation …
‘Digital Armies’ and Disinformation: How Big Tech Is Hitting Brazil’s Upcoming Election Read More
De la Espriella—a large landowner who poses as a “full-time peasant”—has campaigned on hate rhetoric, stigmatizing leftists and social movements while promising to escalate state force. His incoming Minister of …
The Colombian Peasant Movement in the Face of the New Political Situation Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is increasing pressure on Cuba by imposing more economic penalties on industries in the heavily sanctioned socialist country and broadening enforcement of laws that bar Americans who …
US ramps up Cuba sanctions and detentions of Americans returning from the island Read More
The United States has announced that it will not renew a trilateral trade agreement covering $1.6 trillion of trade between the US, Mexico and Canada, one day before the agreement was due …
Why has Trump refused to renew the USMCA, and what will that mean? Read More
Nelson Bastos wasn’t on the oil company’s programme. But he took the mic anyway. After a lifetime of studying the play of wind and tide in a stretch of ocean …
Drilling in the Mouth of the Amazon: How Brazil’s Oil Giant Is Drowning Out Critics Read More HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s powerful Communist Party on Thursday approved an emergency economic package featuring unprecedented free-market measures aimed at opening up the struggling island’s economy as pressure from the U.S. and …
Cuba’s Communist Party approves emergency economic plan opening to private enterprise Read More
The National Assembly of Venezuela, controlled by Chavismo, has taken a step toward ending the state monopoly over the electricity service, which has been in crisis with blackouts and other …
Venezuela opens its electricity system to private investment Read More
Colombia’s next president will either be leftist senator Iván Cepeda or far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella, whose former clients include drug traffickers. The two will go head to head in …
The return of class politics: What Colombia’s election reveals about the left Read More
Buenos Aires has become the latest destination for Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who owns Palantir and PayPal and brings his anti-woke and warmongering crusade to every place he visits. …
Tech magnate Peter Thiel strengthens ties with Milei in Buenos Aires Read More
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A U.S. special forces soldier was granted bond Friday on charges that he used classified information about the mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to win more …
US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400K on Maduro raid is granted bond Read More