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San Pedro, CA, Thursday, June 13, 2024 - Workers at the Marine Exchange who instruct ships over radio how to navigate their way into the port. The Marine Exchange sits on top of an old WWI bunker and has an incredible vantage point of the port. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Bluff or existential threat? As Trump vows tariffs on all imports from Canada, Mexico and China, leaders wonder if he’s serious

President-elect Donald Trump vowed to enact hefty new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China as soon as he takes office as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration and drugs.
Former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press after being formally charged by the federal police with attempted coup, at the airport in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro participated in a 2022 coup plot, unsealed police report says

Mexico City, Mexico-Nov. 19, 2024-Each day, an army of trucks delivers thousands of tons of fresh fruit and vegetables to Mexico City's Central de Abasto, one of the largest wholesale food markets in the world. (Kate Linthicum / Los Angeles Times)

Americans will throw out 316 million pounds of food on Thanksgiving. Here’s how it fuels climate change

Yamandu Orsi, candidate for the Broad Front (Frente Amplio) and running mate Carolina Cosse, right, celebrate after polls closed in the presidential run-off election in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate Yamandú Orsi becomes country’s new president

Pedestrians pass by Uruguay's national flag and political party banners for sale on the day of the presidential run-off election in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Uruguay’s once-dull election has become a dead heat in the presidential runoff

Brazilian police formally accuse former President Bolsonaro of 2022 coup attempt

Mexico’s president on Trump deportation plans: Immigrants are not ‘criminals’

Nicaragua’s Ortega proposes reform to make him and his wife ‘copresidents’

U.S. recognizes Venezuela’s opposition candidate as president-elect

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