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That guava tree in their garden wasn't just an ordinary tree.Natalia Lafourcade's parents had just split up and her mother needed money urgently.Then, that tropical tree with its simple, oval leaves began to bear unusual fruits.We had little money and the tree kept us going.Every summer, there were enormous quantities of guavas growing We had to lay out a net to catch them all.

The Telugu hit "Naatu Naatu" is a global sensation: The first song from an Indian film to win the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for best original song, it beat entries by established heavyweights like Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and Rihanna.The fast-paced 4.5-minute song, which features in the 2022 Telugu-language film "RRR," had already become a viral hit in India when the blockbuster film was released last year not least because it featured nifty choreography that inspired viral trends on social media within India and globally.

FILE - Angelique Kidjo arrives at the presentation of the Gershwin Prize, which honors a musician's lifetime contribution to popular music, hosted at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.The five-time Grammy Award winner Angelique Kidjo, Chris Blackwell who is the founder of one of the most successful a record label and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt have won the 2023 Polar Music Prize, a Swedish music award.

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JOSHUA GOODMAN (Associated Press)
MIAMI (AP) - Florida's shift to the right is perhaps nowhere more notable than in this vibrant swath of the state's southeast coast where the latest Donald Trump drama is unfolding.Republicans have made steady inroads in this former Democratic stronghold in recent years, culminating in the GOP carrying Miami-Dade County in last year's midterm elections.

A commercial for the Temu app run by production services company The Lift in Mexico City.This ad aired during the 2023 Super Bowl.Courtesy of The Lift MEXICO CITY Through director Fiona McGee's monitor, this commercial evokes a typical middle-class American scene: Mom walks into a neat kitchen, overloaded with groceries.

President Guillermo Lasso of Ecuador disbanded the country's opposition-led National Assembly on Wednesday, a drastic move as the right-leaning leader faced impeachment proceedings over accusations of embezzlement.The constitutional measure, never before used, allows the president to rule by decree until new elections can be held, marking a moment of extraordinary political turbulence for a country of 18 million already in turmoil.

BRASILIA, Brazil - Rita Lee Jones, Brazil's million-selling "Queen of Rock" who gained an international following through her colorful and candid style and such hits as "Ovelha Negra," "Mania de Você" and "Now Only Missing You," has died at 75.Are you on Telegram?

A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times warned on Tuesday that when the free press erodes, democratic erosion almost always follows, delivering a call to protect journalists as fatal attacks on reporters have increased especially in the war in Ukraine.In remarks at a United Nations event honoring the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, he urged world leaders to protect independent journalism, whether by securing legal protections in their own countries or by punishing attacks on journalists elsewhere.

Audio producer Listen, the leading independent podcast and radio company in the UK, has announced its acquisition by global podcast group PodX.With Listen's market-leading position and reputation in the UK, this deal is a milestone acquisition for PodX.For Listen, it will super-charge the company's next phase of growth and give the company global reach.

Every Mother's Day, Minerva Garcia is surrounded by hundreds of bouquets of roses.The red ones are her favorites.They remind her of love, she said as she softly touched a petal.There are also dozens of white and pink roses, but none of them are for her.Still, the mother of four smiles as she admires the bouquets.

Accompanying a childhood vaccination team in a remote part of Brazil spurred Cornelius Rau, SM '23, toward the goal of improving child health on a large scale May 4, 2023 - For four weeks in 2011, Cornelius Rau would wake up every morning at dawn to the sounds of birds and insects in the vast Brazilian rainforest.

Residencies from the likes of HE.SHE.THEY, Paradise, Metamorfosi, elrow, Pyramid & more are all taking place at Amnesia this Summer
The world's most renowned club has completed its weekly residencies for what is set to be the most forward-thinking and diverse summer season yet.There is a mix of retiring icons, Ibiza mainstays and brand new parties all covering the freshest house, deepest techno and everything in between.

Few countries in the Western Hemisphere have evoked for Americans the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine as much as has Cuba.For years, the Soviets used the island nation 103 miles off the coast of Florida as a listening post, and, in 1962, they brought the world to the brink of existential conflict by secretly placing nuclear ballistic missiles on the island.

The dangerous haze hovering over parts of the Northeast and Midwest on Wednesday morning was highly unusual for the United States.For many people around the world, it would be somewhat normal.Cities across Asia, Africa and Latin America have been so polluted for so long that air-quality readings like the ones expected across parts of New York State on Wednesday which is expected to pose risks for people with respiratory problems would not be seen as particular cause for alarm.

If you wouldn't dream of going on vacation without your pet, you're in luck.Hotels and resorts are increasingly catering to them with new packages and amenities (or pet-menities, as Virgin Hotels puts it), be it an in-room dining menu for dogs with a beef woofslider at Andaz Mexico City Condesa, or a posh pet blanket made of recycled wool from one of the Marine & Lawn Hotels & Resorts in Britain.

A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, warned on Tuesday that when the free press erodes, democratic erosion almost always follows.He spoke at a United Nations event honoring the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, at a time when fatal attacks on journalists have increased especially in the war in Ukraine and in Latin America and a record number have been imprisoned, according to a watchdog group.

A holiday home punctuated by arches in Tulum and a "rugged" home in Argentina are among the projects in this roundup, which centres on brutalist houses in South and Central America.Although brutalism emerged out of western Europe in the 1950s and 60s, the movement spread to countries in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s.

While global smartphone shipments continue to contract, Honor saw impressive growth numbers in several key markets including Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Latin America.Based on data from Counterpoint Research, Honor's aggressive expansions in Europe saw a 400% yearly growth in shipments which is practically unheard of for other brands in the region currently.

Mere hours ago Motorola unveiled the Razr 40 and Razr 40 Ultra foldable smartphones in parent company Lenovo's home market, China.Now the duo has also been announced for global markets, with a twist - the Razr 40 will be called Razr, and the Razr 40 Ultra will go by Razr+ in North America.The phones are the same that we've already introduced in our initial announcement post.

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk's daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context.Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Blockchain-based play-to-earn project Axie Infinity's native cryptocurrency AXS ralliedafter the company's card-based strategy game debuted on the Apple app store.

Bitcoin rewards company Fold has established an office and local team in El Salvador as part of its expansion into Latin America, signaling an ongoing appetite for investment in the region despite a recent spike in blockchain transaction fees that has disproportionately impacted users of the cryptocurrency.

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic development news from Latin America during the last week.In this issue, economist Steve Hanke calls to dollarize Argentina, Bitcoin City plans are still not formalized in El Salvador, and Venezuelan crypto watchdog Sunacrip is allegedly involved in mass layoffs.

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Hear from Yuga Labs new CEO in his first public appearance since assuming the position.AUSTIN, Texas - The executive in charge of crypto products and blockchain at Mastercard (MA) said the payment processing company is bringing out a service designed to ensure transactions between users' wallets are verifiable and compliant, beginning with transfers of digital assets between countries.

Tapas restaurant Alta Toro opens Thursday, June 15, in the former Babalu Tapas and Tacos space at the corner of Peachtree Place and West Peachtree in Midtown.Backed by Ayman Kamel of 5Church in Midtown and Buckhead, Alta Toro translates to "high bull" in Spanish - a phrase associated with bullfighting and an energetic and powerful bull in the ring.

The most popular items at Latin Jewelers are probably the earpieces."We sell a lot of earrings," said Irene Peña, daughter of the shop's owner on Mission Street."You know - our culture."Babies often have their ears pierced right out of the hospital, she said, a cultural mainstay throughout Latin America.

In the agonies of the virus that upended most of the world, millions of people from Bogota to Berlin saw what life could be like on two wheels instead of four.Even as commuting to the office and going to school plunged at the height of COVID lockdowns, outdoor recreation, and cycling in particular, surged in country after country as people looked to escape isolation in a relatively safe way.

Latin American and Spanish telecommunications companies have made important advances in their privacy policies and practices, but persistent gaps and worrying trends pose potential risks for internet and mobile phone users, according to a new consolidated report published today by EFF.The report is based on the analyses and assessment of industry practices by EFF partners over the last eight years to shed light on telecom and Internet service providers' (ISPs) commitments to users' privacy, in an initiative based on EFF's Who Has Your Back
Through periodic reports within the ), have been rating ISPs and holding them to account vis-à-vis privacy best practices and international human rights standards.

Monarchs are the only butterfly species to make a two-way migration - back and forth from Mexico to as far north as Canada.Chicago muralist Robert Valadez, a third-generation Mexican American who paints monarch butterflies, said that unlike many people in Latin America who try to come to the United States, monarchs can cross the border freely.

Apple on Thursday provided more evidence for optimists who believe that the worst of the tech industry's slump may be over while reminding investors that there are still plenty of reasons for concern.Although the company said that its revenue shrank 3 percent in its most recent quarter compared to the same period a year ago, the $94.8 billion total well outpaced investor expectations of $92.9 billion.

In the cut-throat world of hit TV show Succession, it is the go-to private jet for the Roy dynasty, providing a backdrop to the programme's high-level plotting amid luxury leather upholstery.Now it has emerged that an Embraer Lineage 1000E lauded as the creme de la creme of private business jets has also been the choice of aircraft for the British foreign secretary, James Cleverly, on his eight-day tour of the Caribbean and Latin America.

The Foreign Secretary will tell young leaders in Chile that South America deserves a bigger say on the international stage, as part of a keynote speech on Monday.James Cleverly will tell crowds at Santiago's Gabriela Mistral Cultural Centre that the tectonic plates of world politics are shifting once again.

PRISA Media, the world's leading Spanish-language media company, has partnered with the leading data collaboration platform, LiveRamp to integrate its Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS).ATS enables PRISA Media to improve addressability across its media offering with LiveRamp's pseudonymous, people-based identifier, RampID, increasing the value of PRISA's media inventory across all channels.

For radiologists working in developing countries, a constant source of frustration for those who screen patients for breast cancer is finding it when it's too late to effectively treat it.The American Cancer Society says breast cancer has a 99% survival rate in the United Stateswhere the CDC estimates 27,000 cases are diagnosed annuallyand other similarly developed nations.

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME's politics newsletter.Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox.Joe Biden is in the midst of an incredibly consequential stretch of his presidency and remarkably little of it will be under his sole control.In fact, much of the coming weeksand, perhaps, months, if not his total legacyis contingent on the engagement of other players and their openness to being good-faith collaborators, and just dumb luck.

During a recent weekday lunch rush at his restaurant on the Upper West Side, Richard Lam hurried around the dining room fielding orders from his regulars for dishes like wonton soup, General Tso's chicken and fried rice.Moments earlier, Mr. Lam recommended a plate of crispy chicharrones de pollo to a first-time customer who learned about the diner from a viral TikTok video posted in March.

SANTIAGO, Chile There are only a handful of places to play pickleball here in Chile's capital.Next month, there will be one fewer.In its place, a padel court will rise.There's just not enough people for it to be a profitable business right now, said Nicolas Flores, 34, a founder of the Chile Padel Academy, said.

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Minute Maid is the world's largest juice brand, and is also known as Cappy in Europe and Africa, and del Valle in Latin America.The juice brand previously had disparate identities across the globe, but for the first time in 77 years, they are now united with a singular look, following work from Jones Knowles Ritchie, as well as Grey, VMLY&R and Landor&Fitch.

TAIPEI, Taiwan Honduras has severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan in favor of recognizing China, dealing a blow to Taipei's international standing and Washington's diplomatic efforts in Central America.The diplomatic win for China further reduced the small number of countries that have ties with Taiwan, the island democracy that Beijing claims as its territory.

An officer speaks to migrants as they arrive at the Roxham Road border crossing in Quebec, Canada, earlier this month.Sebastien St-Jean/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. and Canada have reached a deal that would allow both countries to turn away more migrants at unofficial border crossings, according to a rule that's set to be published in the Federal Register.