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Amid stepped-up surveillance flights, a visit of the C.I.A. director and an energy embargo, the White House is trying to increase pressure on Cuba. Source link

The United States has choked off Cuba’s fuel supply, plunging the already impoverished island into an acute energy crisis. Source link

The Justice Department this week instructed federal prosecutors to build criminal drug cases against Mexican officials using new terrorism statutes. Source link

Cartel insiders say that in exchange for bribes and political support they were allowed to operate in Sinaloa state with near total freedom. Source link

They were shackled and sent to Kinshasa by the Trump administration. Now they face a dangerous choice: Go back to Latin America or stay in Africa. Source link

A long-running energy crisis in the island nation reached a breaking point this week, when government officials said they had run out of reserves. Source link

One of the most prominent activists for Mexico’s disappeared recently found the remains of one missing son. Now she has turned her attention to finding the other. Source link

The scientific investigation into the origin of cruise infection has become entangled with international finger pointing. Source link

The unusual ruling came after the judge found that the Trump administration had most likely violated the law by deporting the 55-year-old woman to the African country despite its refusal to take her. Source link

A judge sided with an Indigenous group that had asked for a petition by separatists to force a vote on the oil-rich province seceding from Canada to be thrown out. Source link