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Best Alaska Cruise Lines to Book in 2025/26
Cruise Passenger > Tips & Advice > Best Alaska Cruise Lines to Book in 2025/26 Between the icy fjords, towering glaciers, and wildlife that casually wanders past your balcony, Alaska is one of those places that feels like it shouldn’t be real. But...

US interests can benefit from stronger congressional ties with the Caribbean
Issue Brief June 4, 2025 • 2:00 pm ET Print this page US interests can benefit from stronger congressional ties with the Caribbean By Wazim Mowla and Maite Gonzalez Latorre Toplines The Caribbean’s geographic proximity to the United States—as well...

Black Women’s Community Groups Fight For Peace In Rural Colombia
Local activists known as ‘comisionadas’ pose with women from Tanguí, Chocó, Colombia, at the end of a workshop in 2013. Tania Lizarazo Tania Lizarazo, University of Maryland, Baltimore County It’s been almost nine years since Colombia celebrated a...

Why Latin America and the Caribbean matter for OECD countries
Report May 29, 2025 • 1:20 pm ET Print this page Why Latin America and the Caribbean matter for OECD countries By Jason Marczak and Martin Cassinelli As global dynamics evolve, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are becoming increasingly...

Anthropology from the inside: New Indigenous scholarship from Brazil in translation
Two Indians of the Brazilian Pataxó tribe, in traditional attire, during a national demonstration of the Indigenous movement (“O Abril Indígena”) in Brasília, April 4, 2006 | Valter Campanato/Agência Brasil Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Brazil...

Caribbean Airlines offers ‘sincere apology’ for New River map blunder
The offending map is at right Even as Caribbean Airlines (CAL) issued a “sincere and unreserved apology” yesterday for publishing an incomplete map of Guyana in its in-flight magazine, Caribbean Beat, Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud says it is a...

Opinion: Is it safe to be a Jew in America?
In 1654, 23 Jews fled the Portuguese Inquisition in Brazil and arrived in New Amsterdam, which became New York ten years later. Jews have been coming to America ever since in search of safety. In 1883, Emma Lazurus, the descendant of Sephardic...

Peru Reflects on the Life and Legacy of Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa. Source: From D.Mario Vargas Llosa: My Translation of his letter from Spanish to English. | by Eugenio Magdalena | Medium) By Poppy Tollemache ✐ Peruvian Times Contributing Writer ☄ Nearly two months have passed since Mario...

Do Popes Run A Secret Network Of ‘Spies’?
(ANALYSIS) The Religion Guy’s Answer: There’s ample chatter about how Leo XIV, as the first Pope born and raised in the United States, might be affected by his background. (He is simultaneously a citizen of Peru, where he was a long-term...

The rest of the best: More Mexican bars that made 2025’s 50 Best list
Not long ago, Mexico News Daily published a look at some of the long list of cocktail bars in Mexico that made it onto the 2025 list, 50 Best Bars of North America. In fact, it was such a long list, we didn’t have the room to tell you about all of...

How to grow Daucus carota – discover why the frothy flowers of Queen Anne's lace are perfect for relaxed, naturalistic borders
Daucus carota is also known as wild carrot, or Queen Anne's lace. True to the latter name, its flowerheads, made up of tiny white blooms (although some varieties are pink or dark purple), have an intricate, lace-like appearance. Its pretty...

The Best Places in Mexico for Dental Implants
Share Share Share Share Email If you’re considering dental implants, you’ve probably heard that Mexico is a go-to destination for affordable, high-quality care. You’re not alone—thousands of people travel there yearly to get their smiles back on...

Ballet — The Art of Sassoon
On a misty Sunday afternoon in San Francisco, ABILITY’s David Zimmerman transcended a flight of steps to the second floor of an elegant duplex. He was invited for tea, but also about to take a journey into the life of former prima ballerina Janet...

Luis Diaz's eye-catching remark after Liverpool forced Barcelona to pay £90m transfer premium
Luis Diaz has committed his future to Liverpool, turning down interest from Barcelona in a move that highlights the Reds' growing strength on the European stage. It also marks a significant turning point in their rivalry with the Catalan giants,...

Caribbean-Canada leaders dialogue 2025 ‘study tour’ ends on a high note in Dominica
In a fitting close to a transformative week of dialogue, cultural immersion, and policy exchange, Dr. Gerard Jean-Jacques, Ambassador for CARICOM and Commissioner to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), hosted a distinguished...

‘I always felt like I didn’t have enough’: Why this American woman moved from California to Mexico 20 years ago
(CNN) — As a single mother of three “living paycheck to paycheck” in California, Janet Blaser had become resigned to constantly worrying about paying her bills and always “feeling less than.” However, she began reevaluating her life after a series...

Venezuela Dismantles Network Manipulating Parallel Dollar: Government Defends Economic Sovereignty
Government strikes back against economic sabotage, Ministry of Interior, Justice and Peace dismantles illegal network: there are 25 detainees for manipulating the parallel dollar.Photo:EFE. June 2, 2025 Hour: 4:43 pm The Venezuelan government has...

Mexicans cast ballots for nation’s judges in controversial, first-ever vote
MEXICO CITY — Mexican citizens went to the polls Sunday to elect thousands of judges in a historic vote championed by President Claudia Sheinbaum as an essential democratic reform — and assailed by opponents and many legal experts as a crude...

Argentine universities slide in global ranking amid funding cuts
Seven Argentine universities, all public, were among the world’s top 10% in this year’s global Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) — but most slid down the rankings since 2024 amid funding cuts. An eighth fell off the list of the top 10%...