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Sao Paulo CNN  —  This Saturday, as American conservatives flock to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, they’ll get a taste of just how far and wide their own ideas have spread. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will speak on the same stage where a few hours later former US leader Donald Trump will deliver the event’s closing remarks — a man the Brazilian leader has intentionally mirrored from the beginning of his presidency. Far from his home country, Bolsonaro has found a warm reception in America: on social media, mostly Brazilian fans post videos of meeting Bolsonaro outside his south Florida rental and running into him in parking lots, food courts, and grocery stores, where the former president appears in shorts...

Editor’s Note: The CNN film “Navalny” premiered in April 2022 and won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary Feature. It is streaming on HBO Max, which is owned by CNN’s parent company. CNN  —  Dasha Navalnaya, the daughter of jailed Russian dissident Alexey Navalny, has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine and to release her father and political prisoners in the country, in an extensive interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett on Friday. “We will not stop fighting” until both of those goals are achieved, Navalnaya said. Her father Navalny – an outspoken critic of the Kremlin and its war in Ukraine – is currently serving a nine-year jail term at a maximum-security prison east of Moscow after bei...

CNN  —  A pre-Hispanic mummy, estimated to be between 600 to 800 years old, was discovered in a food delivery cooler bag by Peruvian police over the weekend. Police told CNN that the mummified remains were found with three men who were drinking in a deserted park in the Peruvian city of Puno on Saturday afternoon. “A 26-year-old man had a delivery bag labeled ‘Pedidos Ya.’ Inside they found a mummy,” senior agent Marco Antonio Ortega, who is a spokesperson for Puno region’s National Police, told CNN. Pedidos Ya is a Latin American food delivery app. Images of the discovery showed the mummy in a fetal position inside the red delivery bag. The 26-year-old man, identified by...

CNN  —  Investigators are “anxiously awaiting” the results of the autopsy including toxicology report of former US swimmer Jamie Cail, according to a public information officer for the US Virgin Islands Police Department. Its “crucial” to be absolutely accurate, Glen Dratte, director of communications for the agency told CNN. Dratte said all deaths are looked into by the Criminal Investigations Bureau and the probe into the death of Cail, who swam for Team USA as a teenager, is a very fluid investigation. There are “a lot of moving parts” right now, he said. Cail died about seven days ago on St. John island. According to a police news release, her boyfriend, who was not identified, left a bar just after midnight to...

CNN  —  Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has dismissed concerns about his plan to shrink the country’s electoral watchdog on Monday, accusing protesters of links to drug traffickers. Images of a mass protest in Mexico City on Sunday showed tens of thousands of people wearing pink – the color of the National Electoral Institute (INE), which oversees elections and has been accused of partisanship by López Obrador. Many protesters held signs that read: “Hands off the INE.” Speaking during his daily morning press conference on Monday, López Obrador mocked the placards, saying what they meant was, “hands off corruption.” “According to them, privileges are not touched, the narco-state is not touched,” he ...

CNN  —  Former American swimming champion Jamie Cail has died in the US Virgin Islands, according to authorities who are investigating her death on the island of St. John. US Virgin Islands Police Department says Cail’s boyfriend, who was not identified, left a bar just after midnight to check on her last Tuesday when he found her on the floor of their home. The boyfriend and a friend got her into a vehicle and transported her to Myrah Keating-Smith Community Health Center where CPR was rendered, authorities said. Cail, 42, ultimately “succumbed to her ailment,” officials added, saying she had died on arrival. A cause of death has not been released. Cail won gold at the 1997 Pan Pacific Championships as a m...

CNN  —  Mexico is rethinking its approach toward asylum seekers after the Biden administration unveiled a controversial new proposal to limit asylum eligibility in the United States. Mexico’s refugee assistance agency, known as COMAR, launched a pilot program in southern Mexico on Monday to explore expediting asylum denials to those it deems likely to travel onward to the US. The aim is to deter those migrants from accessing temporary documents issued by COMAR while their cases are being evaluated, which they might use to travel north – a common phenomenon, according to COMAR’s head Andrés Ramírez. But after the Biden administration announced its proposed new asylum rules on Tuesday, COMAR plans to abandon the strategy and use ...

CNN  —  Peru’s government is offering families who lost a relative during nationwide protests between December 8 and February 10 around $13,000 in financial support, according to a decree published by the official newspaper “El Peruano” on Tuesday. Each family will be granted approximately $13,000 US dollars (50,000 nuevos soles), while the injured will receive half this amount, or $6,500 US dollars (25,000 nuevos soles), according to the decree. The payments have been categorized as financial help for civilians and policemen and are not considered as reparations, the decree adds. Amnesty International criticized the government for not taking responsibility for the deaths in a statement. “Economic assistance to th...

Story highlights NEW: In Ecuador, a province governor says investigators have no leads August Reiger was last seen Sunday while on a family hike in the mountains The family trip was a graduation present for the teen, who is fluent in Spanish Father: "Everyone's baffled, because it's not a dangerous place" CNN  —  August Reiger was supposed to reunite with his family at the top of a scenic mountain trail in Ecuador. But when his father, mother and younger brother arrived Sunday at the meeting point overlooking the town of Baños, the 18-year-old was nowhere to be found. Authorities in the South American country have been searching for the Oklahoma high school valedictorian for days. ...

Are you witnessing the protests in Brazil? Share your images and videos with CNN iReport. Story highlights NEW: One death is reported in Sao Paulo state Demonstrators list a variety of demands directed at Brazil's government They chant "Down with corruption" and "I can live without the World Cup" Brazil's president has postponed a trip to Japan in light of the protests Rio de Janeiro CNN  —  A massive crowd of demonstrators swelled around an iconic church in the heart of Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, shouting “down with corruption” and “I can live without the World Cup.” CNN affiliate Band News reported that police used tear gas in some areas of the city as clashes erupted. Police in...