Tag: Guardian Americas
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Image: Guardian Americas 📍 World (approximate area) · ⚔️ Other Conflicts · 📍 Guardian Americas One official said the blaze was ‘like a bomb going off’ as fast-moving fire displaces people in western Canada with another 9,700 told to prepare to fleeNearly 22,000 people were under evacuation orders, and another 9,700 have been warned they…
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Image: Guardian Americas 📍 World (approximate area) · ⚔️ Other Conflicts · 📍 Guardian Americas Proud and defiant in the rolling blackouts, thousands come together to mark the 1953 raid seen as the first step to Fidel Castro taking powerIn the dark before dawn, Juan Victor Hernández Campo was cheerleading a 5,000-strong crowd in the…
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Image: Guardian Americas 📍 World (approximate area) · ⚔️ Other Conflicts · 📍 Guardian Americas After another massacre of smallholders – who are subjected to violence from palm oil firms and drug traffickers – the country’s new Trump-backed government has criminalised community leadersSitting on the back of the motorcycle, 15-year-old Orlean* heard gunshots. A moment…
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Image: Guardian Americas 📍 Haiti (approximate area) · ⚔️ Haiti · 📍 Guardian Americas Temporary protected status allowed me to rebuild my life. Now thousands like me help keep this country runningRight now, across the country, there are more than 330,000 Haitians collectively holding their breath over the future of lifesaving immigration protections provided through…
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Image: Guardian Americas 📍 Haiti (approximate area) · ⚔️ Haiti · 📍 Guardian Americas As fighting intensifies in Port-au-Prince, only a fraction of its maternity services remain, and they are under constant threatEight months pregnant, Françoise, 45, arrives early in the morning at a deserted school in Bel Air. The hillside neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince has…
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Image: Guardian Americas 📍 Colombia (approximate area) · ⚔️ Colombia · 💥 Guardian Americas At least 16 fishers from San Andrés and Providence said to have gone missing since January after US began attacking boats in Caribbean and eastern PacificOfficially, the islands of San Andrés and Providence belong to Colombia – but the language spoken…
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Image: Guardian Americas 📍 Haiti (approximate area) · ⚔️ Haiti · 📍 Guardian Americas With the state shattered, armed gangs offer food, shelter and perilous safety to young people – but at a terrible costWhen Davensky was eight years old, he was kidnapped from school. An armed gang pulled a black bag over his head,…
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Image: Guardian Americas 📍 World (approximate area) · ⚔️ Other Conflicts · 📍 Guardian Americas Donald Trump’s tariff threat recasts Brazil’s attempt to protect its democracy as unfair commercial practice – and gives Bolsonarism a Washington stageLast June, Brazil’s supreme court responded to the online lies that helped fuel Jair Bolsonaro’s failed far-right coup attempt…
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Image: Guardian Americas 📍 Venezuela (approximate area) · ⚔️ Venezuela · 📍 Guardian Americas Threat of social unrest rises as public indignation at lack of disaster aid comes on top of fallout from US military intervention• A revolution in ruins: fury amid the rubble of a housing project in quake-hit VenezuelaPublic anger at what many…
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Image: Guardian Americas 📍 World (approximate area) · ⚔️ Other Conflicts · 📍 Guardian Americas Police say two people exchanged gunfire in shooting that mayor called an ‘irresponsible act of violence’ in festival attended by familiesA shooting near a Toronto street festival killed two men and wounded four other people on Saturday evening, police said,…