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The writer is the Andes bureau chief for NYTManuel Monterrosa set out for the United States last year with his cellphone and a plan: He’d record his journey through the dangerous jungle known as...

Highways blocked with giant boulders and broken glass. Entire cities shuttered by mass protests. Fifty families mourning their dead. Calls for a new president, a new constitution, a new governing...

Gustavo Petro wins the election, becoming Colombia’s first Leftist leader. Petro, a former rebel and a longtime legislator, won Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday, galvanising voters...