Latin America

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  Body of missing soap opera star found in suitcase buried in back garden

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  ‘Spain should be ashamed’: Pele’s daughter Kelly Cristina Nascimento expresses outrage after Vinicius Jr was subjected to racist abuse

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  Incredible timelapse shows ash and smoke erupting from Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano

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  Stampede by fans at football stadium leaves 12 dead in El Salvador

• Confusion over fate of children lost in jungle after plane crash

  

• Killer bees leave six dead in Nicaragua after bus crashes into hives

  

• Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s home searched by police over alleged fake Covid-19 certs

  

• Vigilante mob in Haiti burn 13 suspected gang members to death with petrol-soaked tyres

  

• Man kills four children with hatchet after jumping into nursery

  

• At least 15 killed as powerful earthquake rocks wide area of Ecuador and Peru

  

• Rocks made from plastic debris found on remote Brazilian island

  

• Police officer killed with machete as violence erupts in Colombia following protests

  

• Jailed cartel chief El Chapo’s former lawyer seeks fame from her ‘big talent’ as a folk singer

  

• Dozens die in horror landslides during Brazil carnival

  

• ‘Why should their wombs be going to waste?’ – brain-dead women can be used as surrogates, say doctors

  

• Former president Jair Bolsonaro accused of ‘genocide’ over the poisoning of Brazil tribe

  

• Deadly political riots force Peru to suspend start of football season

  

• Former Brazilian president faces investigation over riots as former minister arrested

  

• Thousands take to streets in Brazil to demand punishment for pro-Bolsonaro rioters

  

• Ex-president Jair Bolsonaro did not seek Italian citizenship after Brazil violence

  

• Suspicions some police may have been complicit in Brazil capital riots

  

• Brazil attacks probably end campaign to reverse Bolsonaro’s October election loss

  

• President Higgins comments as hundreds arrested after Brazil’s Congress stormed by Jair Bolsonaro supporters

• Jair Bolsonaro supporters invade Brazil’s congress, presidential palace and supreme court

  

• Children armed with cartel guns after arrest of El Chapo’s son

  

• Tension lurks behind tears as football legend Pele is laid to rest

  

• Thousands turn out for Pele in stadium where he drew generations of adoring fans

  

• Lula sworn in as president to lead deeply polarised Brazil – as defeated Bolsonaro flies to US

  

• Obituary: Pelé, football genius who won World Cup three times with Brazil and was its greatest ever player

  

• Peru gets first female president as ousted leader appears in court

  

• El Salvador troops seal off city to hunt gang members as 62 murders recorded in just one day

• Pele moved to palliative care as his chemo is suspended

  

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  Woman flew 3,000 miles to meet online boyfriend before being murdered for her organs

  

• Tourists freed after kidnap by Amazon tribe over oil spills