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1 week ago | 
postguam.com | Sarah Cahlan |Maria Paul |María Paúl |Teo Armus |Samantha Schmidt
As the legal battle continues over the fate of Kilmar Abrego García, President Donald Trump has repeatedly cited tattoos on the mistakenly deported man’s knuckles as proof that he is an MS-13 gang member and should not be returned from El Salvador. But several law enforcement officials and researchers who study the transnational gang say the tattoos on Abrego García’s left hand - a marijuana leaf, a smiley face, a cross and a skull - do not show definitive evidence of any gang affiliation.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
postguam.com | Arturo Torres |Lizzie Johnson |Samantha Schmidt
QUITO, Ecuador — This country was once a relatively peaceful haven in South America, wedged between neighbors often wrecked by armed conflict and guerrilla violence.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
spokesman.com | Arturo Torres |Samantha Schmidt
QUITO, Ecuador - Armed, hooded men attacked an Ecuadorian television station during a live broadcast on Tuesday, forcing terrified staff onto the floor, as the country’s new president declared a state of armed conflict. “Tell them we have bombs,” one voice could be heard saying, as armed men held up explosive devices in front of the cameras at the public TC Televisión station in Guayaquil. “No police,” another person said.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
spokesman.com | David Feliba |Samantha Schmidt
BUENOS AIRES - Javier Milei, the libertarian economist embraced by far-right leaders around the world, was sworn in Sunday as president of Argentina, an office he won on promises to slash government spending and dramatically transform a country facing its worst economic crisis in two decades.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
unionleader.com | Samantha Schmidt
BUENOS AIRES - A radical libertarian and admirer of Donald Trump rode a wave of voter rage to win Argentina's presidency on Sunday, crushing the political establishment and bringing the sharpest turn to the right in four decades of democracy in the country.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
rsn.org | Samantha Schmidt |Ana Vanessa Herrero |Karen DeYoung
The Biden administration and the Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro have agreed to a deal in which the United States would ease sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry and the authoritarian state would allow a competitive, internationally monitored presidential election next year, according to two people familiar with the breakthrough talks.
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Oct 15, 2023 | 
stripes.com | Joanna Slater |Samantha Schmidt |Karen DeYoung
Palestinians flee from northern Gaza to the south after the Israeli army issued an unprecedented evacuation warning to a population of over 1 million people in northern Gaza and Gaza City to seek refuge in the south ahead of a possible Israeli ground invasion, on Oct. 13, 2023. (Hatem Moussa/AP) Before dawn on Saturday, Abood Okal and his family received the news they had desperately been waiting for.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
stripes.com | Shira Rubin |Louisa Loveluck |Samantha Schmidt |Susannah George
Two injured children are carried toward a medical complex Wednesday after an Israeli strike on a neighborhood in the Gaza Strip. (Loay Ayyoub/The Washington Post) TEL AVIV — Israel’s army said Thursday that it would seek the end of Hamas in Gaza as airstrikes on the besieged enclave targeted the group’s senior leaders and caused widespread civilian casualties.
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Sep 23, 2023 | 
postguam.com | Amanda Coletta |Samantha Schmidt
TORONTO — When Mehmet Tohti heard Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announce that authorities were pursuing "credible allegations" that agents of the Indian government were involved in the murder of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil, he was not surprised.
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Aug 18, 2023 | 
stripes.com | Samantha Schmidt |Arturo Torres
Ecuadoran presidential candidate Otto Sonnenholzner takes a group photo with supporters in Guayaquil on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. (Andrés Yépez for The Washington Post ) GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador - As the presidential candidate's armored vehicle pulled up to the park, Otto Sonnenholzner's security guard told him to wait in the back seat. "I'm going to secure the car," he said.
