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1. Hydropower Was Ecuador’s Answer to Climate Change. Until the Drought Hit.

2. A Year Both Brutal and Bright: 13 Favorite Dispatches From 2024

3. Inside a Sinaloa Cartel Fentanyl Lab in Mexico

4. Going to a Real-Life Version of Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo

5. Playing to Win: How a First Nation Turned Around Its Fortunes

6. Canadian Ministers Meet Trump Aides at Mar-a-Lago to Discuss Border, and Tariffs

7. 10 Years After Obama’s Opening to Cuba, Despair Replaces Hope

8. Trump Wants U.S. Control of the Panama Canal. Here Are 3 Things to Know.

9. How Mexican Cartels Test Fentanyl on Vulnerable People and Animals

10. Trump Picks Kevin Marino Cabrera for Ambassador to Panama

11. Desi Bouterse, Fugitive Former Dictator of Suriname, Dies at 79

12. Mexico’s Radish-Carving Contest Draws Thousands to the South

13. Around the World, Lights and Color Mark the Season

14. Armed Attack at Haiti Hospital Kills at Least 3

15. Small Plane Crashes Into Buildings in Brazilian City, Killing 10

16. From the Surf to the Sermon: The Christian Surfers of Costa Rica

17. In Top Minister’s Resignation, Shades of an Earlier Political Crisis for Trudeau

18. How Canada’s Voters Turned on Justin Trudeau

19. A Restaurant Is More Than a Workplace for People Often Shunned by Employers

20. Raid on Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Compound in Guatemala