Latin America

Some of the people closest to Haiti's late prime minister are indicted in his murder

5:08am February 21, 2024

A judge investigating the 2021 assassination has indicted dozens of people, including the late president's widow. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Widlore Mérancourt, editor-in-chief of AyiboPost.

Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda sits in Paris in October 1971.

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Death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda should be reinvestigated, court rules

2:28am February 21, 2024

by The Associated Press

The death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda days after Chile's 1973 military coup should be reinvestigated, an appeals court has ruled, saying new steps could help clarify what killed the poet.

Former president of Honduras is on trial, facing charges that he ran a 'narco state'

5:28pm February 20, 2024

by Eyder Peralta

Once touted as a key U.S. ally in the war against drugs, former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández's trial begins in New York, as he stands accused of overseeing a "narco state."

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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro gestures as he speaks on Dec. 3.

Venezuela's leftist leader Maduro makes a play for evangelical voters

4:29pm February 19, 2024

by John Otis

Evangelical Christians are often courted by right-wing politicians. But in Venezuela, left-wing President Nicolás Maduro is trying to secure the church's support in the run-up to elections.

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Morning news brief

5:10am February 19, 2024

Russian forces now occupy a strategically important town in Ukraine's east. Israel still plans an offensive in Rafah. A controversial state military base camp is being built in Texas near the border.

People take parte in a march organized by citizen organizations demanding that electoral autonomy be respected in the upcoming general elections in downtown Mexico City, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024.

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Thousands rail against Mexico's president and ruling party in 'march for democracy'

10:52pm February 18, 2024

by The Associated Press

Thousands of demonstrators cloaked in pink marched through cities in Mexico and abroad on Sunday in what they called a "march for democracy" targeting the country's ruling party.

Joyce Cecília, 27, member of the Brilhetes all-women bate-bola crew after the group's first carnival outing in Anchieta, Rio de Janeiro on February 09, 2023.

Women are breaking Brazil's 'bate-bola' Carnival mold

3:41pm February 16, 2024

Women are taking their rightful place in Rio's "Carnival of the streets" — the "bate-bolas," translated literally, as ball beaters.

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Migrant border crossings into the U.S. dropped significantly in January

11:35am February 15, 2024

U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that the number of undocumented migrants crossing into the U.S. dropped by 50% in January.

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Morning news brief

5:16am February 15, 2024

Kansas City Super Bowl rally turns deadly. Source says Russia is working on nuclear capability that could threaten satellites. The number of migrants trying to cross into the U.S. fell in January.

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Why border crossings into the U.S. plummeted in January

4:23pm February 14, 2024

by Jasmine Garsd

The number of undocumented migrants crossing to the U.S. from Mexico plummeted in January. What's behind the drop, and will it last?