LATIN AMERICA

THOUSANDS LED BY CUBA'S PRESIDENT MARCH IN HAVANA IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTININE

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Thousands of people led by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel marched along Havana’s iconic boardwalk Thursday in a show of solidarity with the Palestinian people and demanding an end to the war between Israel and Hamas.

Wearing a black-and-white Palestinian keffiyeh scarf, Díaz-Canel was accompanied by Cuba’s main leaders, including Prime Minister Manuel Marrero and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez.

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ARGENTINA’S PRESIDENT-ELECT WANTS PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PRIVATE HANDS, WITH MEDIA FIRST TO GO

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Argentina’s right-wing president-elect gave the first indications Monday of how he plans to start shaking up South America’s second-largest economy: with a slew of privatizations.

Populist Javier Milei, a libertarian economist and self-described “anarcho-capitalist,” won a presidential runoff election on Sunday with 55.7% of the vote. He said Monday that he would move quickly to privatize the country’s state-owned media outlets and look to do the same with other public companies.

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FIERY RIGHT-WING POPULIST JAVIER MILEI WINS ARGENTINA’S PRESIDENCY AND PROMISES ‘DRASTIC’ CHANGES

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Populist Javier Milei resoundingly won Argentina’s presidential election Sunday, swinging the country to the right following a fiercely polarized campaign in which he promised a dramatic shake-up to the state to deal with soaring inflation and rising poverty.

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BELIZE JOINS DIPLOMATIC BACKLASH AGAINST ISRAEL OVER GAZA BOMBARDMENT

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Belize has suspended ties with Israel due to its “indiscriminate bombing” of the Gaza Strip, the latest in a string of diplomatic rebukes of Tel Aviv.

The Belize government announced on Tuesday that it was recalling its ambassador and retracting its request for accreditation for its honorary consul in Tel Aviv.

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COLOMBIA BEGINS STERILIZATION OF HIPPOS DESCENDED FROM PETS OF DRUG KINGPIN PABLO ESCOBAR

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Colombia on Tuesday began the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s.

Two male hippos and one female underwent surgical sterilization, environmental authorities said. It is part of a larger government effort to control the population of more than 100 of the mammals that roam around unsupervised in some rivers.

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