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Far-right libertarian and his five cloned dogs vie for Argentina’s presidential palace
Javier Milei’s “four-legged children” have become objects of fascination and a window into his unusual candidacy in an election now going into a run-off.
- by Jack Nicas
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‘Coup author’: Bolsonaro found to have plotted uprising that led to riots
The congressional investigation recommended the former Brazilian president face criminal charges over the insurrection attempt in Brasilia on January 8.
- by Daniel Carvalho
Rivers in the Amazon fall to their lowest levels in 120 years
The Negro River is the Amazon’s largest tributary and the world’s sixth-largest by water volume.
- by Fabiano Maisonnave
35-year-old political novice, banana fortune heir, wins Ecuador vote
The experienced businessman but inexperienced politician achieved something his father, the richest man in Ecuador, tried and failed to achieve five times.
- by Regina Garcia Cano and Gonzalo Solano
Homes destroyed, hundreds evacuate resort city as campfire coffee starts fire
A man reportedly told police he started a campfire to make coffee and lost control of the flames due to strong winds, leading to huge fires amid a heat wave.
- by Harriet Barber
South America
Crime
Seventh suspect in assassination of Ecuador presidential candidate killed in prison
The killing of the seven suspects happened a little more than a week before Ecuador holds a presidential run-off election and as officials struggle to explain how this was possible.
Soaring water temperatures suspected in death of 100 pink dolphins
Thousands of fish have also died in the Amazon, where water temperatures reached 38 degrees on Sunday.
- by Mauricio Savarese
No mountain too high for organ transplant recipient picked up by helicopter
When it comes to organ transplants, every second counts and a fire brigade was happy to find the climber at 2280 metres.
- by Sergio Queiroz
Colombian artist Fernando Botero, ‘South America’s Picasso’, dies at 91
Colombian artist Fernando Botero, whose sculptures and paintings of playful, rotund subjects in sometimes harrowing situations made him one of the world’s richest artists, has died at 91.
- by Julia Symmes Cobb
Bolsonaro fans jailed for 17 years for US-inspired storming of Congress
The three were also ordered to pay $9 million in fines for vandalism caused on January 8.
- by Mauricio Savarese
‘They beat you constantly’: Chilean political prisoners reclaim torture sites
Fifty years after a coup ushered in a brutal military rule that imprisoned, disappeared, tortured or killed some 40,000 people, five former prisoners return to the scene of the crimes.
- by Ivan Alvarado and Natalia A. Ramos Miranda