Alejandro Rincón M.

🌎 Editor en español en la @AFP 📡 Antes en @AFPFactual y EFE ☝🏼 Manizaleño, no manizalita

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As Colombia prepares to vote for a new president, guerrilla violence that has blighted much of the southwest is taking a toll on residents, in particular children.
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Trouble in paradise.

The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Park is one of the jewels in Colombia's tourism crown. But the picture-postcard views mask a more sinister reality. Armed groups call the shots in this corner of paradise, terrorizing Indigenous communities and businesses
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Shakira segue cantando, agora com o público! #ShakiraNaGlobo

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Latin pop queen Shakira kicked off her free mega-concert on Rio's famed Copacabana beach under a full moon Saturday, with drones forming the image of a she-wolf -- her nickname -- overhead as she took the stage.
About two million people are expected to attend.

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🇲🇽 Ancient Maya ball game revives Yucatan's ancient sporting tradition

The ancient Maya ball game is experiencing a revival in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Two teams face off for control of a heavy rubber ball on a court dug into the ground, which represents the underworld.

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The first permanent Pokemon theme park has opened in Tokyo. Visitors are greeted by the electric mouse Pikachu and other creatures from the franchise. Pokemon, one of Japan's top cultural exports, appeared first in 1996 on Nintendo video games.

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@maibortpetit Te hablan, estimado tocayo @ALEJOrincon.

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🇻🇪 Venezuela's acting president has announced a proposal for mass amnesty in the country, in her latest major reform since the US toppling of Nicolas Maduro just weeks ago.
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🇻🇪 Los bombardeos de EEUU en Venezuela y la captura de Nicolás Maduro este sábado desataron desinformación en redes sociales.

Revisa un compilado de los contenidos verificados por la AFP:

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[Alejandro Rincón M. @AlejoRinconM]

@AlertaNews24 Estimados colegas: en la AFP no hemos informado tal cosa.

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Dress for success.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's wardrobe is more than a statement of style; it has become known as a canvass for her political message of advancing women's and Indigenous rights

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#UPDATE At least 55 dead, over 250 missing after Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in decades.

Over 24 hours after fire broke out in the eight-building housing estate with 2,000 units, flames were still visible in some windows

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🇧🇷 VIDEO: Who is setting fire to the Amazon?

The use of fire to clear pastures is such an established practice among landowners and ranchers in the Brazilian Amazon, that abandoning it is almost unthinkable, despite its increasing risks to the planet's largest tropical forest.

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Flowers cover Chile's Atacama Desert in spring.

The Atacama Desert, in northern Chile, is covered in colourful flowers. The phenomenon, known as the 'flowering desert,' occurs in certain years when rainfall and temperatures coincide, awakening the desert's dormant seeds

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Hong Kong issues its highest warning as Super Typhoon Ragasa brings powerful winds and lashing rain to the southern Chinese coast.
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Polls opened Sunday in Bolivia's presidential and congressional elections marked by a deep economic crisis that has seen the left implode and the right eyeing its first shot at power in 20 years.
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#BREAKING Anna Wintour steps down as editor of US Vogue after nearly 40 years: US media

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AFP’s Luis Acosta in Colombia photographs Bolivar Square covered with plastic during a protest by the National Association of Recyclers of Bogota against government neglect and difficult living conditions

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VIDEO Thousands of people gather at Stonehenge to celebrate the longest day of the year, enchanted by its stones erected to align with the sun on the solstices. 'It just makes you feel alive,' said participant Brianna Price who works in London

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#SismosColombiaSGC Evento Sísmico - Boletín Actualizado 1, 2025-06-08, 08:08 hora local Magnitud 6.5, Profundidad Superficial (Menor a 30 km), Paratebueno - Cundinamarca, Colombia ¿Sintió este sismo? repórtelo https://t.co/pgC7OC2O7j https://t.co/63pt8nVsSe #Sismo