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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, second left, and former President Raul Castro, center, wave as they arrive to a demonstration against the US embargo, in Havana, Dec. 20, 2024.

FILE - Residents of the Nazon neighborhood displaced by gang violence construct a tent encampment, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 15, 2024.

FILE - Residents of the Nazon neighborhood displaced by gang violence construct a tent encampment, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 15, 2024.

FILE - Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland speaks to news media in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 30, 2020. FILE - Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Oct. 14, 2024. FILE - Mark Carney, the U.N. special envoy on climate action and finance, speaks during The Museum of American Finance Gala, at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City, March 7, 2024.

Aymara women wait in line to cast their ballots during judicial elections, in Jesus de Machaca, Bolivia, Dec. 15, 2024.

FILE - Brazilian Defense Minister Walter Souza Braga Netto attends a ceremony honoring military athletes who participated in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 1, 2021.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni welcomes Argentinian President Javier Milei at Palazzo Chigi prior to their meeting in Rome on Dec. 13, 2024.

President Nicolas Maduro gestures to supporters during an event marking the 165th anniversary of the Battle of Santa Ines, in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 10, 2024.

Migrant smugglers Josefa Quino Canil and Macario Chitic are seen after being detained in for their involvement in a deadly 2021 truck accident that killed 56 migrants in southern Mexico, following a court hearing in Guatemala City, Guatemala, December 9, 2024.

Taylor Swift performs during "The Eras Tour," Dec. 6, 2024, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Concertgoers watch on during Taylor Swift's "The Eras Tour," Dec. 6, 2024, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Vancouver police officers patrol the area with friendship bracelets adorned around their horses before Taylor Swift's "The Eras Tour," Dec. 6, 2024, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

A forensic investigator inspects the remains of a man killed when a motorcycle loaded with explosives detonated at a police checkpoint in Las Peñas community of Jamundi, Colombia, Dec. 7, 2024.

A Cuban rides a bike on a street at night during a nationwide blackout caused by a grid failure in Havana on December 4, 2024.

FILE - Members of the Haiti Transitional Council pose for a group photo during an installation ceremony, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 25, 2024.

FILE - Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum, left, meets with the Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 18, 2024. (Mexico Presidency/Handout via Reuters)

FILE - A worker in a protective suit pokes a metal rod to tap slag from a smelting furnace at PT Vale Indonesia's nickel processing plant in Sorowako, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Sept. 12, 2023.

FILE - Anti-government demonstrators march against President Daniel Ortega and for the release of all political prisoners, in Leon, Nicaragua, July 28, 2018. FILE - Exiled Pedro Gutierrez, who was released from a Nicaraguan jail and rendered "stateless" waits for the start of a religious service, in Guatemala City, Sept. 22, 2024. FILE - Exiled Nicaraguans released from a Nicaraguan jail wave from a bus after arriving at the airport in Guatemala City, Sept. 5, 2024.