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Opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s vote show strong support for President Nayib Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas party.
Latin America
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Opposition and civil society leaders say President Jovenel Moise’s term is over. He and his supporters say otherwise.
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Civil society groups raise concerns Sunday’s vote could speed up deterioration of El Salvador’s democratic institutions.
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Juan Carlos Zevallos is latest government official in South America to resign over coronavirus vaccine scandals.
The Haitian foreign minister discusses his country’s ongoing political crisis.
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The new unit consisting of 7,000 personnel will be deployed to border with Venezuela and to drug trafficking hotspots.
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On his first trip ‘abroad’ Blinken met Canadian and Mexican about immigration, trade and economic issues.
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Arnel Joseph is among several dead after an exchange of gunfire near Port-au-Prince.
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We will not get back to our normal lives until the virus is eradicated in all countries, Italy’s economy minister said.
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WHO chief urges countries to waive intellectual property rules, to allow others to make vaccines more quickly.
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Survivors and families of victims of a 36-year civil war call on court to reverse closure of peace institutions.
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The director of the prison on the outskirts of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince was among those killed.
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The South American country has the world’s second-highest death toll after the United States.
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Some of the asylum seekers have been there more than a year due to immigration rules set by former President Trump.