Latin America

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.

World News

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.

World News

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.

World News

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.

Economy

Why people in Argentina are in a race against time to spend their earnings

5:01am August 04, 2023

by Stacey Vanek Smith

Imagine half of your savings was gone and your rent was doubling every year. That is what's happening in Argentina as the country battles some of the highest inflation in the world.

Sacramento Area Congregations Together (Sac ACT) is providing English workbooks so the migrants can learn the language. The group also gives out quarters so they can do laundry.

Communities of faith welcome migrants caught in polarized immigration debate

7:46pm August 02, 2023

by Jason DeRose

When migrants from Latin America were flown from Texas and dropped off in Sacramento with nowhere to go, a group of congregations came together to care for them.

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World News

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

5:26pm August 02, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

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

A relief carved on a block in a stairway, one of the many exciting artifacts uncovered at Ocomtun in May.

How scientists lasered in on a 'monumental' Maya city — with actual lasers

12:13pm August 01, 2023

by Emily Olson

Light-mapping technology is expediting the pace of archaeological discovery in the dense jungles of central Mexico. The latest find could offer clues about how humans advanced agriculturally.

Morning news brief

8:14am August 01, 2023

Donald Trump's legal woes haven't hurt him in the polls. The ACLU files a lawsuit to block the country's first religious public charter school. Kenya offers to step in to bolster security in Haiti.

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Kenya proposes to lead a multinational force into violence-torn Haiti

5:01am August 01, 2023

NPR's A Martinez talks to the Miami Herald's Jacqueline Charles about Kenya's offer to send a thousand police officers to Haiti to lead a multinational effort to support Haitian police.