Two teenage gunmen assassinate gang leader in Guayaquil’s airport — prompting Ecuador’s Noboa to issue decree granting immunity to foreign security personnel, while in Brooklyn, El Mayo Zambada accepts life sentence as Sinaloa cartel civil war kills nearly 2,000 people
El Mayo Zambada accepts life imprisonment without parole in a Brooklyn sentencing memorandum — his one request: a medical facility other than El Chapo’s supermax
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Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez claims 80% of collapsed buildings during earthquakes were privately developed — deflecting scrutiny from state-built Chavista housing projects razed in La Guaira
Cuba’s national electric grid collapsed at midday Monday — the fourth total blackout of 2026 — leaving 10 million people without power as the island’s decades-old infrastructure deterioration converges with a U.S. fuel blockade
U.S. declines to renew USMCA on July 1 — triggering annual reviews that will repeat every year until 2036 — while the agreement itself remains fully in force, U.S.-Mexico negotiations are already in their third round
U.S. Justice Department charges Sinaloa’s sitting governor with conspiring with Los Chapitos to flood the United States with fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine. Nine other current & former officials are charged alongside him. One allegedly murdered a DEA source
Washington & Tehran agreed to stop shooting at each other on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, Israel launched strikes on Beirut. The Strait of Hormuz remained closed. Islamabad talks begin Saturday. This is where things stand
At Colombia’s official World Cup send-off ceremony in Bogotá, captain James Rodríguez “snubs” Gustavo Petro's daughter Antonella — a three-second moment that went viral across Colombia as presidential election heads into its final weeks
Brazil records lowest homicide rate in over a decade — but extortion, cybercrime, police killings, and disappearances all rose in the same period, while PCC and CV cells expanded across 12 U.S. states
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary’s two-day visit to Mexico City was the most significant bilateral security meeting in months — set against CIA agent deaths, drug indictments, and a viral moment nobody planned: Mexico’s Interior Minister’s arrival on motorbike
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