#theguardian.com. × #Feb.21.2026 US salsa legend Willie Colón, vocalist, trombonist and composer, dies aged 75. Colón’s music combined jazz, rock and salsa, incorporating rhythms from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil and Africa
#Showbiz #Africa #Brazil #South America × #Cuba #North America #music #jazz
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.21.2026 US group allegedly ran fake law firm and court proceedings to scam immigrants. Federal prosecutors have arraigned four people in New Jersey, with a fifth at large in Colombia
#South America × #Colombia
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.20.2026 Floreana giant tortoise reintroduced to Galápagos island after almost 200 years. Subspecies driven to extinction by hungry whalers returns after ‘back breeding’ programme using partial descendants
#South America × #Iceland #Afro-Eurasia #Europe #Ecuador
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.20.2026 Bolivia’s ex-leader Evo Morales reappears after months-long unexplained absence. Long-serving socialist former leader Evo Morales has reappeared in his political stronghold after almost seven weeks of unexplained absence
#Politics #South America × #Bolivia #politician
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.19.2026 Leftist who defended child marriage elected as Peru’s interim president. José María Balcázar, who argued ban should be limited to under-14s, replaces José Jerí who was voted out after a scandal
#South America × #Peru
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.18.2026 Coffee-growing countries becoming too hot to cultivate beans, analysis finds. Five countries responsible for 75% of world’s coffee supply record average of 57 extra days of coffee-harming heat a year
#Weather #Ethiopia #Africa #Brazil #South America × #Indonesia #Asia #Colombia #Vietnam
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.18.2026 Brazilian butt lifts should be banned in UK amid ‘wild west’ industry, MPs say. Lack of regulation leading to procedures being carried out in sheds, hotel rooms and public toilets, committee finds
#Health #Politics #Brazil #South America ×
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.17.2026 Peru’s president ousted in ‘express impeachment’ after just four months. Interim president José Jerí voted out by country’s congress amid scandal concerning secretive meetings
#Politics #South America × #USA #Peru #North America #Americas
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.15.2026 US forces board second Venezuela‑linked oil tanker in Indian Ocean. Pentagon tracked sanctioned Veronica III from Caribbean Sea after it left Venezuela on day Maduro was captured
#South America × #Asia #India #Venezuela
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.15.2026 No fuel, no tourists, no cash - this was the week the Cuban crisis got real. Diplomats in Havana are preparing for an alternative Trump tactic: the country being starved until people take to the streets and the US can step in
#South America × #Cuba #USA #North America #Venezuela
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.14.2026 Brazil’s Pinheiro Braathen wins gold – and South America’s first Winter Olympics medal. Brazil’s Lucas Pinheiro Braathen bagged South America’s first Winter Olympic medal, the skier with ‘Let’s Dance’ on his helmet, clinching giant slalom gold
#Sport #skiing #Brazil #South America × #USA #North America #Americas
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.14.2026 US military used Anthropic’s AI model Claude in Venezuela raid, report says. Wall Street Journal says Claude used in operation via Anthropic’s partnership with Palantir Technologies
#Tech #South America × #USA #North America #Venezuela
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.14.2026 Russia killed Alexei Navalny with frog toxin, UK and four European allies say. Intelligence agencies say deadly toxin in skin of Ecuador dart frogs found in Navalny’s body and highly likely resulted in his death
#Politics #Russia #South America × #Europe #Ecuador
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.14.2026 Venezuelan deportee welcomes chance of US return but fears repeat of ordeal. Luis Muñoz Pinto, 27, who was sent to notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador would like to clear his name after US judge’s ruling
#South America × #North America #Venezuela #El Salvador
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.14.2026 US officials investigate whether ICE agents lied about Minneapolis shooting. Charges dropped against two Venezuelan men over January shooting as investigation opened into agents’ conduct
#South America × #Venezuela
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.12.2026 ‘Big step forwards’: emboldened activists take to the streets of Venezuela. Protesters are enjoying greater freedom of expression since Nicolás Maduro’s downfall despite lack of regime change
#Politics #South America × #USA #North America #Nicolás Maduro #Venezuela
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.12.2026 São Paulo names new law after dog that stayed by owner’s grave for 10 years. The Bob Coveiro (the Gravedigger) Law ‘recognises the emotional bond between guardians and their pets’
#Brazil #South America × #Americas
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.11.2026 Some of world’s oldest trees hit by climate-fuelled wildfires in Patagonia. Wildfires that left 23 people dead were made about three times more likely by global heating, researchers say
#Weather #South America × #Chile #Argentina
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.10.2026 Astronomers celebrate cancellation of $10bn Chile project that threatened clearest skies in the world. Astronomers had warned that proximity of INNA facility to telescopes would have irreparably damaged observation
#South America × #Chile
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.09.2026 ‘We’re being turned into an energy colony’: Argentina’s nuclear plan faces backlash over US interests. Push to restart uranium mining in Patagonia has sparked fears about the environmental impact and loss of sovereignty over key resources
#Tech #South America × #USA #Argentina #North America
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.09.2026 Venezuela’s Machado says close ally kidnapped by ‘heavily armed’ men hours after prison release. Juan Pablo Guanipa was ‘violently’ taken from a residential neighbourhood in Caracas, according to opposition leader María Corina Machado
#Politics #South America × #Venezuela
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.06.2026 Trump signs proclamation to increase US imports of beef from Argentina. Initial announcement sparked fury from US cattle ranchers as economists say change will have little impact on prices
#Politics #South America × #Argentina
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.05.2026 Maduro’s alleged frontman Alex Saab reportedly captured in Caracas. FBI and Venezuela’s intelligence agency also reportedly arrest billionaire media mogul Raúl Gorrín at same address
#Politics #South America × #Venezuela
#theguardian.com. × #Feb.05.2026 Venezuela plan to turn notorious prison into cultural centre scrubs past horrors, critics say. The move is among several measures the acting president has touted since Maduro’s capture – yet critics say it erases Venezuela’s long history of repression
#Politics #South America × #Venezuela
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