/americas Americas en-US WLRN Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:15:00 GMT /americas/2024-09-06/sergio-mendes-grammy-winning-brazilian-music-legend-dies-at-83 Sergio Mendes, the Grammy-winning Brazilian musician whose 1966 hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global superstar, has died after months battling the effects of long COVID. He was 83. Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:15:00 GMT /americas/2024-09-06/sergio-mendes-grammy-winning-brazilian-music-legend-dies-at-83 David Biller and Gabriela Sa Pessoa | Associated Press /americas/2024-09-06/global-left-venezuela-response-brazil-chile The worldwide left has long been prone to apologize for Latin America's authoritarian leftist regimes — but a younger generation's response to socialist Venezuela's electoral fraud is challenging that impulse. Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:00:00 GMT /americas/2024-09-06/global-left-venezuela-response-brazil-chile Tim Padgett