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People demonstrate by a bonfire during a protest against the government in Santiago on November 15, 2019. (Rodrigo Arangua/AFP via Getty Images)

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A United Nation observer shakes hands with a rebel of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, before a meeting in La Carmelita near Puerto Asis in Colombia's southwestern state of Putumayo,Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Thousands of leftist rebels are taking an important step in Colombia’s peace process by providing to UN observers an inventory of the weaponry they will soon surrender. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) (AP)

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Aerial view of the Transamazonica Road (BR-230) near Medicilandia, Para State, Brazil on March 13, 2019. - According to the NGO Imazon, deforestation in the Amazonia increased in a 54% in January, 2019 (Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images)

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