Latin America

Famous For Traffic Jams, Mexico City Takes A Cue From 'La La Land'

6:32am July 30, 2018

A local theater company has reportedly been sending tutu-clad dancers to spin and twirl through the streets, while cars are stuck at traffic lights. No reports of fed-up drivers joining them.

Deported Without His Daughter

6:19pm July 29, 2018

Renee Montagne talks with a father separated at the U.S. border from his daughter when they fled gang violence in Honduras. He was deported and his daughter was sent to a detention center.

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Priest Describes Attack On Church In Nicaragua

8:21am July 28, 2018

by Michele Kelemen

Vice President Pence is accusing Nicaragua's leader of waging war against the Catholic Church. We hear from a priest whose parish came under siege.

Sombra, a drug-sniffing dog who works with Colombia's police, was relocated after a criminal organization put a price on her head.

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Colombian Drug Traffickers Put A $70,000 Bounty On A Police Dog

6:53pm July 27, 2018

by Sasha Ingber

Sombra, a 6-year-old German shepherd, sniffed out large amounts of cocaine, angering the criminal organization that hid them. She has been moved away from the group's territory for her safety.

The U.S. released journalist Emilio Gutierrez and his son on Thursday, after the second months-long detention. Seen here in 2011, Gutierrez has been seeking asylum in the U.S. since fleeing Mexico's drug violence in 2008.

National

U.S. Releases Mexican Journalist After A 2nd 7-Month Detention

11:37am July 27, 2018

by Bill Chappell

ICE agents arrested Emilio Gutierrez Soto last December — two months after the National Press Club recognized him with its Press Freedom Award.

A colored scanning electron micrograph of a female Anopheles mosquito, a vector for the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax.

New Drug Wipes Out Malaria In A Single Dose — But There's One Hitch

1:02pm July 26, 2018

by Michaeleen Doucleff

Global health activists say it's a big step toward wiping out malaria. But it will be tough to implement in poor countries.

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Feminism Gets A New Platform In Argentina

5:15am July 26, 2018

by Jasmine Garsd

An Argentinian daytime talk show, known for stoking fights among scantily clad cabaret dancers, broke format and suddenly invited nuanced conversations about feminism, sexual harassment and abortion.

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Mexico City Mayor-elect Claudia Sheinbaum cast her vote in the capital city on July 1. She and many women won posts in local governments and legislatures across the country.

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Meet Mexico City's First Elected Female Mayor

8:27am July 25, 2018

by Carrie Kahn

The Mexican capital's incoming leader, Claudia Sheinbaum, is an environmental engineer who worked on a U.N. climate panel that shared a Nobel Prize with Al Gore. Can she stabilize the city?

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'There Is Nothing For Us Here': Why People Keep Leaving Guatemala

8:12am July 22, 2018

by Maria Martin

Most of those migrating to the U.S. from Central America are fleeing violence and joblessness. Many come from Guatemala where returnees deported from the U.S. may only intensify those conditions.

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A Honduran Family Reunited

8:12am July 22, 2018

A Honduran baby was reunited with his family in Honduras after he was separated when they tried to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. NPR's Korva Coleman speaks with Julie Watson of The Associated Press.