Latin America

A presidential candidate in Ecuador is shot and killed at a campaign event

8:13am August 10, 2023

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Samantha Schmidt of The Washington Post about Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, who was assassinated following his campaign event Wednesday.

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Police guard the hospital where several of the injured were taken after an attack against presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito, Ecuador, on Wednesday.

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A presidential candidate in Ecuador has been shot and killed at campaign event

9:25pm August 09, 2023

by The Associated Press

Fernando Villavicencio was shot and killed Wednesday by an unidentified gunman while at a political rally in the country's capital of Quito, President Guillermo Lasso said.

Cars line up outside the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.

Who is sneaking fentanyl across the southern border? Hint: it's not the migrants

11:02am August 09, 2023

by Joel Rose

We know that illicit fentanyl is flowing into the U.S. from Mexico. Yet we rarely hear from the couriers who smuggle most of it through legal ports of entry. This is one of their stories.

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Fentanyl makes its way into the U.S. from Mexico. Who's smuggling it in?

11:54am August 08, 2023

by Joel Rose

Most of the fentanyl comes through legal ports of entry. We hear the story of one of the couriers.

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Aerial view showing a fire at the Chapada Diamantina region, between the cities of Andarai and Mucuge, in Bahia state, northeastern Brazil, on October 7, 2020. - Chapada Diamantina National Park preserves areas of three Brazilian biomes: Mata Atlantica, Cerrado and Caatinga among its 152,000 hectares.

Brazil's president will try to rally more support to save rainforest at Amazon Summit

6:20am August 08, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

Leaders of the countries that make up the Amazon say it's time for the rich countries of the world to pay to protect the threatened rainforest. They are meeting Aug. 8 and 9 in Brazil.

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Part 1: Investigating how illicit fentanyl is actually getting into the U.S.

4:40pm August 07, 2023

by Joel Rose

Most of the illicit fentanyl coming across the U.S.-Mexico border is smuggled through official ports of entry, according to immigration authorities. But not everyone believes that's the full story.

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There's renewed hope for peace in Colombia's fight against rebel groups, drug cartels

5:22am August 07, 2023

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Elizabeth Dickinson of the International Crisis Group about Colombia's government and the largest remaining rebel group trying to reach a permanent truce.

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International investigators give up search for 43 missing college students in Mexico

8:07am August 06, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

For about eight years, a group of independent investigators have been trying to learn what happened to 43 college students who went missing in Mexico. The last two international investigators have now left.

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Meet the Guatemalan judge fighting for democracy at a critical moment for the country

8:07am August 06, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

The current struggles of a judge who ruled in a historic case show the decline of Guatemala's democracy.

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A leader of Guatemala's reformist party on the country's upcoming elections

8:07am August 06, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

NPR's Eyder Peralta speaks with Guatemalan Congressman Samuel Perez Alvarez, a member of a reformist party whose candidate made it into the second round of presidential elections this year.