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‘Super Moustache’: New superhero battles Americans - and looks very familiar
Beyond the laughs, analysts see an effort to improve the image of a leader in need of support in a country struggling through a years-long crisis.
- by Ana Vanessa Herrero
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Hundreds of tarantulas seized at airport in Colombian smuggling bust
More than 200 of the giant spiders were discovered at Bogota airport in plastic containers, intended for the European black market.
- by Reuters
Former Brazil Olympic supremo gets 30 years in jail for buying votes for Rio Games
Carlos Nuzman has been found guilty of corruption and other crimes. A former Rio governor and two other officials have also been sentenced.
- by Mauricio Savarese
Brazil hid ‘worst deforestation’ data until after COP26: Ministers
President Jair Bolsonaro and his environment minister knew the Amazon region’s annual deforestation rate was the worst in 15 years, cabinet ministers said.
- by Debora Alves
Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for record $48 million
The sale of “Diego y yo” for $US34.9million sets a record for the artist and for Latin American art at auction.
- by James Tarmy
Battle among Ecuador prison gangs kills at least 68 inmates
Authorities said clashes were still uncontrolled hours later at the Litoral Penitentiary, which recently saw the country’s worst prison bloodbath.
- by Gonzalo Solano
COVID-19 falls across North and South America for 8th week
In North America, all three countries reported drops in weekly cases and deaths, and there has been a notable decline in hospitalisations in the US and Canada.
- by Anthony Boadle
Trump defends his ‘friend’ after criminal charges recommended for Bolsonaro over COVID
The Brazilian President could face charges for a litany of offences including spreading false information claiming vaccinated people in the UK were contracting AIDS faster.
- by Debora Alvares
Macho men hotline the latest weapon against domestic violence
The idea of the Calm Line, as it is called, is not just to prevent violence against women, but to address what many experts say is one of its root causes.
- by Julie Turkewitz
Cocaine succession fears after capture of ‘world’s most wanted’ drug lord
Analysts suspect that Colombian trafficker Dairo Usuga, known as Otoniel, will soon be replaced by “another drug lord who may be much worse”.
- by Rachel Pannett, Diana Durán and Samantha Schmidt
Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine’ hippos legally accepted as people in US court
After the drug lord was killed in 1993, his giraffes, zebras and flamingos were sent off to zoos, but four giant hippos were allowed to remain in a pond.
- by Nick Allen