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 PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA Nicolás Maduro speaks to the press last week in Caracas.

How do you solve a problem like Maduro?

By TRACY WILKINSON/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS
 Sao Paulo police car.

Brazilian airliner crashes, all 61 on board killed

By REUTERS
 PARAGUAYAN PRESIDENT Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York, 2017. Last year, the US Treasury Department accused representatives of Cartes of collecting bribes at private Hezbollah events, the writes explains.

South American enablers amplify Hezbollah’s threat

By PETER MARKO TASE
 BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gestures during a meeting at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, earlier this year. For years, the Brazilian government has refrained from declaring Hezbollah a terrorist organization, the writer notes.

Brazil’s Hezbollah threat: Why sanctioning the terrorist group is crucial

Argentinian President Javier Milei receives ILAN's 1st Innovation in Politics Award.

Argentinian President Javier Milei receives ILAN's first Innovation in Politics Award

 142 leaders from 17 countries came together in Cancún.

Jewish leaders from 17 countries convene, discussing Latin American Judaism post October 7

The ongoing war in Gaza and the resurgence of anti-Semitism cast a long shadow, reminding us that the Jewish people continue to face a dual struggle

A two-fold struggle in the shadow of memory - opinion

By Hadassa Getsztain
 Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Nefesh B'Nefesh, Avichai Kahana, Director General of the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, Tony Gelbart, Co-Founder and Chairman of Nefesh B'Nefesh, and Shay Felber, Deputy Director General of the Jewish Agency, with participants.

First South American MedEx event for physicians planning aliyah held in Buenos Aires

 A soldier sits atop an military vehicle as Bolivia's President Luis Arce "denounced the irregular mobilization" of some units of the country's army, in La Paz, Bolivia June 26, 2024.

Bolivia coup attempt fails after military assault on presidential palace

By REUTERS

The $20b shipwreck at the heart of a legal dispute in Colombia

By Walla!
Israel silver-medal winning women's soccer team at Special Olympics

Israel signs agreement with South American soccer federation, paving way for elite competition

By Juan Melamed/JTA
Argentine president-elect Javier Milei addresses supporters after winning Argentina's runoff presidential election, in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 19, 2023

Speaking at Miami synagogue, Argentina’s Javier Milei reveals he has Jewish heritage

By Juan Melamed/JTA
 The leaf litter frog (Haddadus binotatus) emits a distress call at frequencies that humans cannot hear but predators can.

Amphibians use scream inaudible to humans for self-defense against predators, new study suggests

 A tourist looks at a statue named "Moai" at Easter Island, Chile February 13, 2019. Picture taken February 13, 2019.

Easter Island inhabitants had contact with South America over a thousand years ago, study finds

 Fire and smoke rise as a wildfire burns near the Lago Penuelas National Reserve, in Valparaiso region, Chile February 2, 2024.

Forest fires kill 51 in Chile, menace urban areas

By REUTERS
 The National Palace, Mexico City, Mexico.

The Americas’ best New York-style Jewish deli may be in Mexico City

By Rachael Narins/JTA
Argentine president-elect Javier Milei addresses supporters after winning Argentina's runoff presidential election, in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 19, 2023

Argentina elects pro-Israel right-winger Javier Milei as president

By Juan Melamed/JTA
 US ARMED Forces collect bodies from Jonestown.

The Jews of Jonestown: Jewish members of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple cult