Latin America

Decades after Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile, the fight for justice continues

5:57am September 11, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

It's been 50 years since a U.S. backed coup toppled the democratically elected president of Chile and installed a dictatorship. After five decades many victims say they still haven't seen justice.

A rare chance to look into Nicaragua, a country that shuts itself off to journalists

5:10am September 11, 2023

For more than a year, Nicaragua has kept foreign journalists out. NPR's Eyder Peralta managed to get in, and he brings us some exclusive on-the-ground reporting.

A couple in a motorcycle ride in front of a billboard with a picture of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega at Ministry of Family Economy in Managua, Nicaragua.

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A rare look into Nicaragua, a country that shuts itself off to journalists

10:58am September 10, 2023

We take a look inside Nicaragua — a country where repression is the norm, making it one of the hardest countries to report from.

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Animal rights activists want a giraffe at the U.S.-Mexico border to be moved

8:02am September 10, 2023

by Angela Kocherga

Animal rights activists on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are advocating for a giraffe named Benito who's living in a park in Juarez, Mexico to be moved to a proper zoo or wildlife sanctuary.

Military jets bombed La Moneda presidential palace during the coup on Sept. 11, 1973, in Santiago, Chile. President Salvador Allende killed himself and Gen. Augusto Pinochet began a 17-year dictatorship.

The U.S. set the stage for a coup in Chile. It had unintended consequences at home

6:00am September 10, 2023

by James Doubek

When the U.S. role in the 1973 coup in Chile became known, activists took action. So did U.S. lawmakers. This is what happened after the U.S. helped topple a Marxist and aided a right-wing dictator.

Mexico is set to make history by electing its first female president

4:35pm September 07, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

Mexico is on course to make history by electing its first female head of state in next year's elections — likely shattering a glass ceiling in a notoriously patriarchal society.

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Left: Claudia Sheinbaum, former mayor of Mexico City, at a rally announcing she will be the Morena party's presidential candidate in next year's election, in Mexico City on Wednesday. Right: Former Mexican Sen. Xóchitl Gálvez speaks after registering as a presidential pre-candidate for a broad opposition coalition in Mexico City on July 4.

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Mexico is on course to elect its first woman president

11:43am September 07, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

Mexico's two main political groups have chosen women presidential candidates. Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum and Sen. Xóchitl Gálvez will face each other in next year's election.

A woman holds up a sign with a message that reads in Spanish; "I will decide" as she joins a march demanding legal, free and safe abortions for all women, marking International Safe Abortion Day, in Mexico City, Sept. 28, 2022. Mexico's Supreme Court on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, has decriminalized abortion nationwide.

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Mexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access

9:44pm September 06, 2023

by The Associated Press

The country's Supreme Court ordered that abortion be removed from the federal penal code, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women's rights.

Police officers check a house as residents wade through a flooded street after floods caused by a cyclone in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Monday.

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A cyclone has killed over 20 people in Brazil, with more flooding expected

12:51pm September 06, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

The southern Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul and neighboring Santa Catarina are reeling after a devastating cyclone killed 27 people and displaced thousands.

Cuba accuses Russia of quietly recruiting its citizens into the war in Ukraine

5:09am September 06, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Chris Simmons, an expert in Cuban spycraft, about Cuba charging that Cubans have been conscripted into fighting in Ukraine in exchange for Russian citizenship.