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1. Honduran President Xiomara Castro claimed Tuesday night during a national broadcast that efforts to launch a "coup" against her government are underway.

• The claim was made after a news organization released videos of her brother-in-law Carlos Zelaya meeting with known drug traffickers in 2013.
• Zelaya said earlier it was an unwitting chance encounter, but the footage apparently shows him addressing the traffickers to ask for donations for a previous presidential campaign.
• During her speech Tuesday, Castro claimed it's an attempt to discredit her when dozens of members of the opposition are under investigation for alleged links to drug traffickers.

2. Large wildfires raged in 22 Bolivian municipalities this week, including in three natural reserves in Santa Cruz province near the border with Brazil.

• Authorities are blaming farmers who sometimes set areas ablaze to raze them for cattle ranching or to clear way for crops.
• Officials say drought caused the fires to spread more quickly.

3. More than 130 Nicaraguans who were being held prisoners in their country arrived today in Guatemala after the White House said it had "secured their release" through apparent joint negotiations with the regime of President Daniel Ortega and "co-president" Rosario Murillo.

• The Ortega regime has in the past few years expelled and stripped of citizenship hundreds of alleged dissidents held as detainees, including religious activists and opposition politicians.

• The White House said the 135 people released earlier today will be able to "apply for lawful ways" to head to the U.S. from their exile in Guatemala.