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Chavela Vargas – Song of the Day

Our featured artist is Chavela Vargas from Costa Rica with the song “Cabellos de Emperador” from el disco “La Luna Grande” (2012).

The order was given hours after Pope Francis described Ortega as a “imbalanced dictator”, and was communicated at the Vatican in Rome.

The Pope comments that Daniel Ortega “has an imbalance”, and that the imprisoned Bishop Rolando Alvarez “wanted to give his testimony”.

Claudia Camila from Venezuela took our photo of the day: “Cactus Crocs”, in Caracas, Venezuela. She used a Nikon D60 camera.

A law allows “stateless” persons to reside in Brazil and, after normalizing their immigration status, empowers them to apply for nationality

Mariangel Rivero from Venezuela took our photo of the day: “My Cat”, in Lara, Venezuela.

The move comes as the US intensifies its crackdown on asylum seekers as it prepares to phase out the Trump Title 42 pandemic policy in May.

Nicaragua’s dictatorship prevented them from visiting the country, but that did not stop them from conducting a thorough investigation.

Daniel Zovatto underlines Latin America’s general condemnation of Ortega. “Monsignor Alvarez is the Nicaraguan Nelson Mandela.”

A shocking investigation by The New York Times exposing the forced labor of migrant children as young as 12 at factories across the USA.