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Latin America’s on-again off-again relationship with democracy could offer some helpful insights to the United States, which is about to begin its own precarious trek back up the weedy embankment towards the path to democracy.

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Latin America could offer a roadmap for the U.S. transition from Trump to Biden

President Juan Orlando Hernandez allegedly sought access to a cocaine lab run by Geovanny Fuentes, an accused drug trafficker who is due to go on trial in New York in March.

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Honduran president planned to shove drugs "right up the noses of the 'gringos',” according to witness in New York drug case

In Mexico, residents in the capital city are scrambling to do their holiday shopping before lockdowns grow more severe. But doctors are alarmed at the crowded conditions found in many spots across Mexico City. Here’s the report.

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Mexicans flock to shopping malls ahead of 23-day lockdown

Mariachi culture in Mexico is undergoing an acute crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic. And as musicians grow more desperate, some are offering virtual serenades in exchange for donations. Here’s the report.

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Mariachis worried as stay-at-home orders jeopardize their business

In the Mexican state of Sonora, first responders and front-line workers are using a new tool to help those who may be infected with the coronavirus. The solution: specially trained canines. Here’s the story.

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Mexico: scientists are training dogs to detect covid-19

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We are days away from the anniversary of the Virgin Mary’s appearance on Tepeyac Hill, north of what is now Mexico City. But because of the pandemic, authorities are taking historic measures to control the pilgrimage.

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Basilica set to close ahead of Our Lady of Guadalupe celebration

As Biden has begun to assemble his foreign policy and national security team, some clues have emerged about the route he will take. Everything indicates more diplomacy and less belligerence. (
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“The era of ‘maximum pressure’ is over.” Biden expected to bring more subtle, diplomatic tone to policy on Cuba and Venezuela, say experts

In 1998, the world came to the rescue of Honduras and Nicaragua after Hurricane Mitch. Now, 22 years later, the needs are almost the same but political corruption may undermine international generosity, analysts warn. (
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Iota Unleashes Floods As It Slams Honduras

After Eta and Iota, will the world help Honduras and Nicaragua as it did after Hurricane Mitch?

Rescue teams continued on Wednesday looking for people trapped in their houses by flood waters from two back-to-back hurricanes. In Nicaragua, a landslide buried 12 people, of whom only four were rescued. (
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"It's all under water..." Hurricane Iota leaves mounting death toll and devastation in Central America

Iota's vast expanse of tropical storm force winds extending 175-miles from its center means that it will affect most of Nicaragua and Honduras, two countries with a vulnerable topography of mountains and rivers and terrain already saturated by the passage of Eta two weeks ago.

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Hurricane Iota causes widespread flooding in Nicaragua and Honduras from overflowing rivers

Many people who lost their homes to Hurricane Eta are seeking higher ground and shelters run by churches and non-profits. (
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"We’re afraid of what’s coming." Vulnerable Honduras braces for Category 5 Iota, second hurricane in two weeks

Hurricane Eta struck the coast on Nicaragua and Honduras as a Category 4 hurricane leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless. That comes on top of an economic recession due to the pandemic. Now experts fear they feel obliged to leave the country. (
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Could Hurricane Eta be the "last straw" for Central Americans considering joining a migrant caravan?

In Mexico, children have had to abandon their studies due to the pandemic, some having to work on the streets in order to help their families. But now, some teachers are going the extra mile to try to help their students.

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Traffic lights become classrooms for homeless children

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The Mexican government is outraged by allegations of abuse against women, detained at an ICE facility in Georgia. Mexican officials are taking steps to clarify what happened at the center and looking to ensure that something like this never happens again.

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Mexico considers legal action against US for alleged abuse at ICE facility

In Mexico City, there is a place where every day is Halloween and during this time of the year there’s no better place to enjoy delicious potions with a touch of magic than this very original coffee shop. Here’s a look inside this spooky, spectacular setting.

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Mexico: coffee shop offers delicious potions with a touch of magic

Chileans are celebrating the result of a referendum on their country's constitution that could bring about real change for decades to come. Here are more details.

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Chileans overwhelmingly vote to rewrite Pinochet-era constitution

In Mexico, a woman known as ‘Manuelita’, a 97-year-old grandmother, fulfilled her dream of seeing the sea for the first time. Here’s her incredible story.

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A 97-year-old grandmother sees the sea for first time

A well-known Mexican chef is paying a high price for a social media post that apparently bothered some in that country's presidential family. UNews spoke to the man about what happened next.

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Renowned chef targeted for controversial meme

In Mexico, there is outrage after the death of a child who was brutally beaten in a shelter in August. Now we're learning more about his death. Here are the tragic details.

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Mexico: Outrage after the death of child assaulted on video at shelter

In Colombia, a community is outraged after a cyclist was fatally struck by a truck. The incident, caught on video, shows that the driver didn't stop to help. Here are the details.

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Truck driver runs over cyclist, forcing him off highway

Last week, Hurricane Delta made landfall along Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. And as the major storm came ashore, one animal lover sprang into action, rescuing hundreds of pets from nature's fury. Here’s the story.

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Mexico: man shelters hundreds of dogs from Hurricane Delta at home

A 103-year-old woman in Guadalajara, Mexico survived her battle with the coronavirus after spending several days in the hospital. Even though she had work-related lung issues, she remained healthy, and doctors say that was a determining factor in her recovery.

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Mexico: 103-year-old woman survives battle with coronavirus

Venezuela has received 3 new shipments of gasoline from Iran, but experts say it's not sustainable as the South American nation is running out of cash. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, but in recent weeks it was forced to close gas stations across the country due to shortages.

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Venezuela receives new shipments of gasoline from Iran amid severe shortage

If 10% of the billions of dollars stolen by crooked businessmen and officials were to be returned, it would exceed the total amount of humanitarian assistance provided by the international community to Venezuelan, according to a report by the Inter-American Dialogue.

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Report urges creation of mechanism to repatriate Venezuela's stolen assets to alleviate humanitarian crisis

In Mexico, many emergency related medical services are nearly at capacity due to the pandemic. Now, some ambulance operators are profiting from the suffering and urgent needs of those infected with covid-19. We have this report from Mexico City.

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Mexico: ‘pirate ambulances’ reportedly charging to transport patients

Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, a curious situation is evolving in Venezuela. The number of deaths reported by the government of Nicolas Maduro stands at approximately 600. But these numbers are being questioned by experts, because of the reality on the ground in that country.

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Venezuela: cemeteries full as government reports only 600 covid deaths

The parents of a child who died of cancer filed a complaint against the Mexican government. They say, the lack of drugs for cancer treatment caused the death of their son. Here’s the story.

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Criminal complaints seek to hold AMLO at fault for cancer death

The pandemic has hit #Mexican wrestling hard due to the forced suspension of fights. But some have found new ways to stay afloat during these difficult times. #UNews caught up with one well-known wrestling personality to talk about how he’s still fighting but in a different way.

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From the ring to selling food: Mexican wrestler reinvents himself

The massacre of the Jesuit priests is one of the most high-profile religious crimes in recent Latin American history and drew global attention to the civil war in El Salvador, as well as U.S. support for the country’ military.

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Spain sentences ex-colonel to 133 years in prison for 1989 murder of Jesuits in El Salvador

The generosity of a Mexican teacher has put the internet literally ‘on wheels’ for low-income students in a Chiapas town. With the help of friends, the teacher installed a network access point inside his truck and drove around low-income neighborhoods so that the students could connect for free.

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Teacher takes Wifi van to low-income areas to help students

“One of the objectives is to generate empathy and to put ourselves in the other's shoes because we have all been rejected at some point,” says Edgar Alvarez, a Colombian artist. Inspired by difficult scenes he witnessed, he creates play-doh sculptures to address xenophobia. Here’s his story.

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Artist creates play-doh sculptures to highlight human rights issues

The lives of 50 families in the Mexican state of Tabasco are about to change. These families will move to the world's first 3D neighborhood, where backers say they can build an entire house in one day. Here’s the story.

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The world’s first 3D neighborhoods will be helping low-income families

Faith runs deep in Mexico, where devotees—inspired by President Lopez Obrador— are looking to a little magic to protect themselves against covid-19 with what is being promoted as an anti-coronavirus amulet. There is, however, no scientific support for this spiritual remedy.

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Mexico: some locals turn to magic spells, amulets to fight covid-19

One couple in Ecuador is proving that love knows no limits. Waldramina Quinteros is 104 years old and Julio Cesar Mora is 110. The pair have been going strong for 79 years together, and they say the best is yet to come.

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Ecuadorians break record as the world’s oldest married couple

There have been dozens of armed attacks by pirates in the southern Gulf of Mexico, primarily on offshore oil rigs and vessels. Videos and audios of the attacks have begun to appear on social media and the Mexican Navy does not appear to have the resources to stop them. (
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"Pirates climbing aboard!": the cry of an oil platform worker in the Gulf of Mexico

The Trump administration is intensifying its campaign of maximum pressure on the Maduro regime, cutting off its oil revenues, but has yet to find a winning formula for regime change. (
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Confiscated cargo and ships legally warned away on the high seas: how US sanctions are affecting Maduro

In #Mexico, there’s an ongoing medicine shortage for children fighting #cancer. Hundreds of parents are demanding action, but 6-year-old Grecia Álvarez, says she has found the solution: selling churros on the street to buy her own medicine. Here’s her inspiring story. #UNews

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A 6-year-old sells churros to raise funds for her chemotherapies

In Mexico, there is concern that almost three million students have been forced to drop out of school due to the pandemic. And for many students, classes online and on TV are out of reach.

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Mexico: millions of students have been forced to drop out of school

Mexico's President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and the former president, Felipe Calderón, are engaged in a war of words. Both accuse each other of complicity in drug trafficking that at times, has plunged the country into chaos.

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Mexico: AMLO describes Calderón’s government as a narco-state

In Mexico, health care workers treating covid-19 patients at one hospital have found a way to bring some relief to those in treatment and their families. An engineer created a mailing system where family members can send letters to their loved ones.

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Medical personnel read letters from loved ones to covid-19 patients

In Mexico, a couple of young soldiers have become a hit on social media because, thanks to them, their followers can experience life as a soldier. Here’s a closer look at their story.

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Mexican soldiers become viral sensations using social media to recruit

Due to the lack of compliance with basic safety measures put in place to contain the coronavirus, some graffiti artists in Oaxaca, Mexico have begun using their talents to fight the pandemic.

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Artists in Oaxaca cover walls with images of people wearing masks

In Reynosa, Mexico there is a shortage of oxygen for coronavirus-infected patients, who must be treated at home because there is no more room in hospitals. Their families stand in long lines for hours carrying their own balloons or tanks to get oxygen refills.

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Covid-19 patients in Reynosa, Mexico facing oxygen shortage

In Central America, the coronavirus isn't the only crisis government leaders are dealing with. El Salvador is facing a potential new plague in the form of locusts.

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Locust plague swarms through Central and South American countries

A peasant family in Colombia were struggling to make ends meet as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. But thanks to the initiative of the youngest member of the family and the help of a neighbor, the family turned to a new tool to survive - YouTube. Here’s their remarkable story.

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Rural family a viral hit with thousands of YouTube subscribers

Even during the coronavirus pandemic, the importance of remittances sent by Mexican immigrants in the US to their family members across the border remains a key economic driver in Mexico. UNews visited Tonatico, a small village in Mexico built with remittances from the US.

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A Look at Tonatico, a village in Mexico built from US remittances

As the pandemic continues to take an economic toll across Latin America, a rise in child labor from children looking to help their families is alarming experts.

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Mexico: covid-19 may push millions of children into child labor

With the coronavirus crisis still raging in Mexico, new numbers tell of the potential economic dangers for the nation's residents. At least 16 million could have fallen into extreme poverty because of the virus, and that danger hasn't gone away completely.

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Mexico: study estimates virus has left 16 million in extreme poverty

U.S. officials say they seized 81 vehicles, part of a scheme by wealthy Venezuelans linked to the Maduro regime to evade U.S. sanctions, including Raul Gorrin, a notorious Venezuelan billionaire wanted for money laundering.

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"Fleecing" Venezuela: cars valued at $3.2 million seized at South Florida port

Coronavirus has had a devastating effect on industries across Mexico, including in one of its most iconic arenas - the wrestling ring. ‘Lucha Libre’ wrestlers are struggling, and now fighting for survival.

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Mexico: wrestlers forced to reinvent themselves during the pandemic

Less than two weeks ago, Mexico City's public security secretary, Omar Garcia Harfuch, was nearly killed in a day-time attack. Now, he is receiving new threats.

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Omar Garcia Harfuch gets new death threats after assassination attempt

Saab's capture was thwarted in Colombia in 2018 after an attorney for the office of his lawyer, Abelardo de la Espriella, and an assistant to Saab, secretely received information about the imminent arrest of the businessman and his family members, according to documents obtained by Univision Investiga. 
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Attorney for Alex Saab in Colombia approved deals with corrupt policeman who tipped off plan to arrest his client

As Mexico struggles with rising case numbers and increasing deaths, it seems no aspect of society is immune from the impacts of the pandemic. One initiative found a way to help the country's famed mariachis, giving them the opportunity to work and receive income.

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‘Salvemos al Mariachi’ campaign seeks to raise $110K for musicians

It's not known who were the last recipients of the millions of dollars that money laundering suspect Alex Saab sent to the United States before being indicted. Sources told Univision Investiga that the money was used to pay for lawyers who were helping Saab secretly make approaches to the US government.

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‘Lucha libre’ fans are in mourning. In the last two months, at least thirty wrestlers have died, mainly due to coronavirus. Some of the wrestlers —also known as 'luchadores' — have recovered and are now sending a message to warn people just how dangerous this illness is.

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Mexico: ‘luchadores’ warn about the dangers of contracting covid-19

Efforts to fight the coronavirus crisis in southern Mexico are being hampered by misinformation about the disease and how it can be spread. Many challenges lie ahead for health officials in the impoverished region.

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Misinformation putting indigenous communities in Chiapas at risk

As Mexico City continues to deal with a spike in coronavirus cases, out of work restaurant musicians decided to bring some music, and joy, to their neighbors.

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Musicians take to Mexico City streets

Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the murder of judge Uriel Villegas and his wife Verónica Barajas will not go unpunished, and his government will not be intimidated by organized crime. The late judge had worked on several cases against known drug traffickers.

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AMLO seeks justice after judge and wife killed at home

Abelardo de la Espriella, attorney Alex Saab, has not disclosed when he gave up defending his client in compliance with the United States Department Treasury, which requires non-citizens to obtain a special license to represent sanctioned persons.

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Attorney for Alex Saab lacked U.S. legal authority to represent his client, but continued to defend him

Former Colombian beauty queen Daniella Alvarez had to have her left leg amputated due to medical complications during surgery. Now she reveals her story on social media and sends messages of hope.

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Daniella Alvarez reveals amputation of her left foot due to ischemia

A Colombian florist traveled several miles every day on his bicycle to work. One day the strength of his legs put brought him wheel to wheel with Rigoberto Uran, one of the most decorated cyclists in Colombia. Here’s the story of this surprising and life-changing encounter.

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Rigoberto Uran gifts bike to a local farmer

In Mexico, the coronavirus pandemic remains a significant public health threat, one that has a serious impact on the most marginalized families. Among them, families with children orphaned due to femicide. Many of those families are now facing a double blow having to survive without any safety net.