Latin America

Genaro Garcia Luna delivers a speech in 2012 to mark the expansion of a federal prison. He served as Secretary of Public Security from 2006 to 2012.

Former Top Mexican Security Official Arrested On Cocaine Trafficking Charges

4:14pm December 10, 2019

by Sam Gringlas

In exchange for millions of dollars in bribes, Genaro Garcia Luna, formerly in charge of all the country's federal police, allegedly allowed the Sinaloa Cartel to operate with impunity.

Relatives of passengers of a missing military plane arrive at the Cerrillos air base in Santiago, Chile, on Tuesday.

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Chilean Military Plane Carrying 38 People Crashes En Route To Antarctica

1:27pm December 10, 2019

by Sam Gringlas

The Chilean air force says it hasn't been able to locate the Hercules C-130 transport plane but has determined it likely crashed. A search and rescue mission is ongoing.

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A New Effort In Argentina Seeks To Make Spanish Nouns Gender Neutral

4:50pm December 08, 2019

Michel Martin speaks with Washington Post reporter Samantha Schmidt about a push by some Argentine teenagers to use gender-neutral nouns in Spanish.

A deserted beach in Gorgona National Park, an island 21 miles off Colombia's Pacific coast.

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Colombia's Former Prison Island Gorgona Is Open For Tourists — And Snakes

9:00am December 08, 2019

by John Otis

Nature has taken over this onetime penal colony turned national park, surrounded by waters popular with divers for their sharks, rays and whales. A resort manager calls it a "mini-Galápagos."

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Scorpions Infest Brazilian Cities

8:30am December 07, 2019

NPR's Scott Simon asks University of São Paulo researcher Hamilton Carvalho about an explosion in the scorpion population in Brazilian urban centers.

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Salvaging Hope: 1 Woman's Refusal To Be Defeated By The Crisis In Venezuela

5:54pm December 06, 2019

by Philip Reeves

One woman's personal but epic struggle in Venezuela says a lot about poverty there. She sifts through trash and even moved to the capital where the pickings might offer more than even poorer areas.

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Colombian Former Penal Colony Now Taking Tourists

5:00am December 06, 2019

by John Otis

The guerrilla war is over in Colombia and that's opening up some formerly off-limits places for tourism, including an island that formerly housed a penal colony.

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Bolivia's former president, Evo Morales, speaks at the Mexican Journalists Club, in Mexico City, on Nov. 27.

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Opinion: O, How Bolivia's Mighty Morales Has Fallen

4:54pm December 03, 2019

by Raúl Peñaranda

He was a giant of the last half-century in the South American country. But even if he tries to run again in the future, he'll never be the titan he once was, writes Bolivian journalist Raúl Peñaranda.

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How Netflix Is Upending The TV Industry In Mexico

4:56pm December 02, 2019

by Carrie Kahn

Netflix has a big production push in Mexico. In 2020, the online streaming network says it will spend $200 million on in-country production, part of its growing international expansion strategy.

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Huge Amazon Wildfires Endanger Our History As Well As Our Air, Archaeologists Say

9:18am November 30, 2019

by Scott Simon

Cristiana Barreto says deforestation threatens to erase evidence of huge, dispersed civilizations, including rock art, ceremonial earthworks and waterways.

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