The prison's director is among 25 people killed in the mass escape near the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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Hundreds of inmates escape from Haiti prison
The prison's director is among 25 people killed in the mass escape near the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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Hundreds of inmates escape from Haiti prison
The prison's director is among 25 people killed in the mass escape near the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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Illegal Amazon rainforest plots sold on Facebook
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Gang war leaves scores dead in four Ecuador jails
The violence is thought to be linked to a battle for control of the jails after a gang leader's killing.
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Father of Liverpool keeper Alisson drowns
Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker's 57-year-old father, Jose Agostinho Becker, drowns in Brazil.
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US arrests El Chapo's wife over 'drug trafficking'
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Hundreds of inmates escape from Haiti prison
The prison's director is among 25 people killed in the mass escape near the capital, Port-au-Prince.
![Amazon rainforest]](https://webarchiveweb.wayback.bac-lac.canada.ca/web/20210227023153/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/{width}/cpsprodpb/13CB8/production/_117308018_mediaitem117308015.jpg)
Illegal Amazon rainforest plots sold on Facebook
Protected land reserved for Brazil's indigenous communities is being traded on the social network.
![A woman holds on to a child while standing outside a prison where inmates were killed during a riot that the government described as a concerted action by criminal organisations, in Guayaquil, Ecuador February 23, 2021](https://webarchiveweb.wayback.bac-lac.canada.ca/web/20210227023153/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/{width}/cpsprodpb/AD14/production/_117180344_mediaitem117180343.jpg)
Gang war leaves scores dead in four Ecuador jails
The violence is thought to be linked to a battle for control of the jails after a gang leader's killing.
![Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson](https://webarchiveweb.wayback.bac-lac.canada.ca/web/20210227023153/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/{width}/cpsprodpb/F74E/production/_117301336_ab_get.jpg)
Father of Liverpool keeper Alisson drowns
Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker's 57-year-old father, Jose Agostinho Becker, drowns in Brazil.
![Cocaine found in over 1,700 tins of wall filler after German authorities seized more than 16 tonnes of cocaine in the northern port city of Hamburg, 24 February 2021](https://webarchiveweb.wayback.bac-lac.canada.ca/web/20210227023153/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/{width}/cpsprodpb/B44F/production/_117195164_hi065893173.jpg)
Cocaine 'worth billions' found in Paraguay shipment
More than 23 tonnes of the drug was discovered in two raids on shipments from Latin America to Europe.
![Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, appears during a virtual hearing in federal court in Washington, DC, 23 February 2021](https://webarchiveweb.wayback.bac-lac.canada.ca/web/20210227023153/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/{width}/cpsprodpb/153A3/production/_117174968_hi065881571.jpg)
US arrests El Chapo's wife over 'drug trafficking'
Emma Coronel Aispuro's arrest comes two years after her husband was convicted in the US over his cartel.
![BBC Monitoring's Latin America expert Luis Fajardo](https://webarchiveweb.wayback.bac-lac.canada.ca/web/20210227023153/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/{width}/cpsprodpb/B2C3/production/_117136754_p097pkxh.png)
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The most important humanitarian gesture in decades?
Colombia has given protected status to almost one million Venezuelan migrants.
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Illegal Amazon rainforest plots sold on Facebook
Protected land reserved for Brazil's indigenous communities is being traded on the social network.
![A woman holds on to a child while standing outside a prison where inmates were killed during a riot that the government described as a concerted action by criminal organisations, in Guayaquil, Ecuador February 23, 2021](https://webarchiveweb.wayback.bac-lac.canada.ca/web/20210227023153/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/{width}/cpsprodpb/AD14/production/_117180344_mediaitem117180343.jpg)
Gang war leaves scores dead in four Ecuador jails
The violence is thought to be linked to a battle for control of the jails after a gang leader's killing.
![Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson](https://webarchiveweb.wayback.bac-lac.canada.ca/web/20210227023153/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/{width}/cpsprodpb/F74E/production/_117301336_ab_get.jpg)
Father of Liverpool keeper Alisson drowns
Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker's 57-year-old father, Jose Agostinho Becker, drowns in Brazil.
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