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In Paraguay, Fighting Graft With Eggs and Toilet Paper
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — Maria Esther Roa was fuming. A powerful lawmaker had, once again, escaped punishment for his misdeeds. But standing outside of Congress in...
Ecuador Detains a Friend of Assange. Critics Say It’s Guilt by Association.
QUITO, Ecuador — Just hours after the British police dragged the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, the police in...
Mexican Town Once Welcomed Migrants. Now It Blames Mexico’s President for Them.
MAPASTEPEC, Mexico — Like so many others in his impoverished part of southern Mexico, Joaquín Ramírez, a corn farmer, eagerly cast his vote in the...
Trilobites: Watch a Flower That Seems to Remember When Pollinators Will Come Calling
Can you remember what you did yesterday? If not, you might want to take a lesson from Nasa poissoniana, a star-shaped flowering plant from the...
Sri Lankans Accuse Him of Wartime Atrocities. California May Decide.
In the decade since Sri Lanka’s civil war ended, a former wartime defense chief has successfully dodged accusations of crimes against humanity. He may soon...
Lens: A Photographer Confronts His Family’s Tragic Past in Colombia’s War
Andrés Cardona remembers the scenes in his family photo albums, little rectangles of memories as faded as the images themselves: birthdays, baptisms, weddings, Halloween and...
Trudeau Faces a New Foe as Conservatives Retake Power in Alberta
MONTREAL — The return of conservatives to power in oil-rich Alberta adds another province to a growing bloc of opposition to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
4 Killed in ‘Targeted’ Shootings in British Columbia
A 60-year-old man was arrested after allegedly killing four people in a “targeted” series of shootings on Monday, the police in British Columbia said. The...
Searching Out the Hidden Stories of South Carolina’s Gullah Country
On an overcast June day, I parked my car under a live oak outside a weathered-looking church on St. Helena Island, S. C. I’d interrupted...