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Chinese electric vehicles are parked at the Chancay megaport as Chinese automakers are gaining ground against traditional brands in the South American electric vehicle market, in Chancay, Peru on Nov. 13.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 19, 2025
Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America — without Tesla
Part of China's success has been partnering with trusted local importers to offer more affordable models tailored to regional tastes.
President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela during a news conference in Caracas on Sept. 15.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 19, 2025
Trump said to authorize CIA plans for covert action in Venezuela
While Trump publicly emphasizes Venezuela’s role in the drug trade and illegal immigration, he has privately discussed the country’s huge oil reserves and access to them.
Venezuelam President Nicolas Maduro waves his country's flag during a demonstration in Caracas on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Trump says U.S. may open talks with Venezuela's Maduro
The U.S. has accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of ties to the illegal drug trade, which the leader has denied.
The United States conducted another attack on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Saturday, killing three people aboard, the Pentagon said Sunday.
WORLD
Nov 17, 2025
Pentagon says it struck another suspected drug boat in Pacific, killing three
It was the 21st known attack on drug boats by the U.S. military since early September in what it has said is an effort to disrupt the flow of narcotics into the United States.
A man holds up Chile's national flag on the day of the presidential election in Santiago on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Chile communist and conservative heading to presidential runoff
The opposing candidates represent starkly divergent views on how to lead one of Latin America’s richest economies.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new military operation to remove "narco-terrorists" and secure the U.S. "from the drugs that are killing our people."
WORLD
Nov 14, 2025
U.S. announces new military operation in Latin America
U.S. forces have carried out strikes on about 20 vessels in international waters in the region since early September, killing at least 76 people.
The world’s largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, seen here in the North Sea on Sept. 24, arrived in Latin America on Tuesday, 2025, escalating a military buildup that Venezuela has warned could trigger a full-blown conflict as it announced its own deployment.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2025
Arrival of U.S. aircraft carrier fuels Venezuelan fears of attack
The vessel’s deployment was ordered nearly three weeks ago, with the stated goal of helping to counter drug trafficking in the region.
Mugs for sale with images of presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast as well as Augusto Pinochet at a shop in Chile on Oct. 28
WORLD / Politics
Nov 4, 2025
Pining for Pinochet: How crime fanned nostalgia for Chile’s dictator
Polls are showing Chileans clamoring for order and authoritarianism, with many expressing fondness for the dictatorship of late general Augusto Pinochet.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks on the day he meets with Caribbean parliamentarians from 14 countries to sign a peace agreement in the region, amid rising tensions with the United States, at Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 2, 2025
Trump’s move on Venezuela splinters region over possible strike
As U.S. President Donald Trump steps up his targeting of Venezuela, the region’s fragmented governments are failing to agree on any joint response to rein him in.
U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington earlier this month.
WORLD
Oct 31, 2025
'Non-interventionist' Trump flexes muscles in Latin America
Trump has been meddling in ways harkening back to an earlier era in U.S. history.
Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado speaks at a rally in Caracas on July 25.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 29, 2025
How Venezuela's Nobel Prize winner built a high-stakes alliance with Trump
Members of Maria Corina Machado’s team helped Washington build the case for an aggressive stance against the Venezuelan government led by President Nicolas Maduro.
Argentine President Javier Milei (center) celebrates during a Libertad Avanza election night rally in Buenos Aires on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 27, 2025
Milei’s party wins Argentina midterm vote in major comeback
La Libertad Avanza, which currently holds only about 15% of congressional seats, will gain a stronger foothold to pass key economic reforms.
The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, seen in the North Sea during NATO Neptune Strike 2025 exercise on Sept. 24. Washington is deploying an aircraft carrier and accompanying ships to counter drug-trafficking organizations in Latin America, the Pentagon said Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 25, 2025
Trump sending U.S. carrier to Latin America as war fears rise
The Pentagon has ordered the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group to counter drug-trafficking organizations in Latin America.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks during a rally at Bolivar Square in Bogota on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 25, 2025
U.S. sanctions Colombian president, alleging he allowed drug trade expansion
Trump this week called Gustavo Petro an "illegal drug leader" after the leftist president accused the U.S. of committing "murder" with the strikes.
Rodrigo Paz, Bolivia's president-elect, holds a Bolivian flag during an election night rally following the presidential runoff election in La Paz, Bolivia, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 22, 2025
Bolivia's new president rekindles cautious hope for stalled lithium dreams
The country holds the world's largest resources of the ultralight metal used in electric vehicle batteries.
The seaport of Buenaventura in Colombia on June 28. Shipments to the U.S. account for 35% of Colombia's exports, according to the Colombian-American Chamber of Commerce, while 70% of imports from the U.S. are items not produced in the country.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 22, 2025
Trump's Colombia tariffs would flip U.S. policy on drugs and trade
Trump's tariff threat was a rejection of an idea about countering the narcotics business that free trade can make legitimate exports more appealing than drug trafficking.
U.S. Marines come ashore from a landing craft utility during training exercises in Arroyo, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 16.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 21, 2025
In Trump's drug war, U.S. officials avoid tackling legal status of prisoners
The U.S. government chose not to use the term "prisoners of war" to describe two survivors of an attack last week by the U.S. military.
Peruvian law graduate Rosalinda, 26, shows the "One Piece" manga flag on her mobile phone during an interview in Lima on Sunday. A majority of Gen Z protesters, marked by the flag, are demanding deep reforms amid growing insecurity and a decade of political instability.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 21, 2025
Peru's Gen Z leads movement against rampant crime and political paralysis
The country has suffered years of near-constant political crisis, corruption scandals, rising prices and deadly protests.
U.S. Navy Adm. Alvin Holsey, the leader of U.S. military forces in Latin America, said he will step down at the end of this year, two years ahead of schedule.
WORLD
Oct 17, 2025
In surprise move, head of U.S. military for Latin America to step down
Adm. Alvin Holsey said on social media platform X he would retire on Dec. 12, but did not give a reason.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during the Federal Reserve Board Community Bank Conference in Washington on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 11, 2025
Bessent’s big gamble on Argentina has a narrow road to pay off
For the Treasury secretary's $20 billion bet to pay off, a lot of things have to go right — things that in the past, in Argentina, have tended to go wrong.
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Cloudflare has been ordered to pay ¥500 million after four major publishing firms accused the firm of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Yen and Japanese bonds continue to retreat as verbal intervention lacking
The yen has deepened recent lows against the dollar as the 'sell Japan' trade gains steam ahead of big fiscal stimulus.
A dictionary revision illustrates how Japanese keeps on evolving
The reference text A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar recently underwent a revision for the first time in nearly four decades.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
Munetaka Murakami headlines quartet looking to move to MLB via posting system
The Swallows' Munetaka Murakami has 246 career home runs in eight NPB seasons.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Why we can’t get enough of the sham of the rental family
“Rental Family,” directed and co-written by the single-named Hikari, follows out-of-work actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser), who is hired as the “token white guy” at a Tokyo agency called Rental Family.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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