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  1. Inside Gang Territory in Honduras: ‘Either They Kill Us or We Kill Them.’

    The Times spent weeks with a group of young men as they fought for their lives in Honduras. All they had was a few blocks in one of the world’s deadliest cities. They would die to protect it.

     

    Members of the Casa Blanca gang in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, a city rigidly divided by gangs and plagued by violence.
    CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
  2. ‘It Is Unspeakable’: How Maduro Used Cuban Doctors to Coerce Venezuela Voters

    President Nicolás Maduro sent doctors door-to-door to warn the ill and elderly that care would be cut off unless they voted for the governing party, said 16 Cuban physicians who worked in Venezuela.

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    Yansnier Arias was sent to Venezuela by the Cuban government, one of thousands of doctors deployed to help Venezuela’s collapsing medical system.
    CreditTomas Munita for The New York Times
  3. Secret Venezuela Files Warn About Maduro Confidant

    Venezuela’s intelligence agency gathered evidence against one of the country’s most powerful figures, including accusations of drug trafficking and ties to Hezbollah.

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    President Nicolás Maduro with Mr. El Aissami last year at an economic meeting in Caracas.
    CreditMarco Bello/Reuters
  4. Colombia Army’s New Kill Orders Send Chills Down Ranks

    Senior officers told The Times that soldiers are under intense pressure to defeat rebel groups and that a pattern of suspicious killings and cover-ups has begun to emerge this year.

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    A Colombian soldier watching over the border with Ecuador in Nariño, Colombia, last year.
    CreditFredy Builes/Reuters

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  3. Brumadinho Dam Collapse: A Tidal Wave of Mud

    A mining dam collapsed and buried more than 150 people. Now Brazil is casting an anxious eye on dozens of dams like it.

    By Shasta Darlington, James Glanz, Manuela Andreoni, Matthew Bloch, Sergio Peçanha, Anjali Singhvi and Troy Griggs

     

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