Latin America

Brazilian actor Wagner Moura looks so much like Colombian smuggler Pablo Escobar that Netflix's Narcos uses footage and photos of the real Escobar to heighten the show's realism.

Arts

A Colombian Kingpin Gets The 'Goodfellas' Treatment In 'Narcos'

3:07pm August 28, 2015

by Eric Deggans

A new Netflix series offers a fictionalized account of how smuggler Pablo Escobar built his cocaine empire. The show is compelling and complex — especially for fans of classic crime stories.

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All the talk about immigration in the U.S. presidential campaign has renewed focus on the linguistic question of how to refer to people from Latin America. Here, the flags of Latin American and Caribbean states fly at a regional summit in San Jose, Costa

Hispanic Or Latino? A Guide For The U.S. Presidential Campaign

7:01pm August 27, 2015

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Donald Trump has put immigration front and center in his campaign. This has placed renewed focus on the confusing question of how to refer to people from Latin America, including those now in the U.S.

Huitlacoche quesadillas with spinach in Mexico City in 2013.

Scourge No More: Chefs Invite Corn Fungus To The Plate

10:53am August 27, 2015

by Jill Neimark

American and Canadian chefs are learning what Mexicans have long known: a bluish fungus that infects corn kernels is delicious. And now scientists want to figure out how to grow it on corn on purpose.

World News

Zap Racket Helps Brazilians Deal With Mosquitoes

8:10am August 26, 2015

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Brazilians bedeviled by mosquitoes bat away the nuisances with an electrified tennis racket. (This piece initially aired on June 14, 2015 on Weekend Edition Sunday).

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Global Economy Feels Ripples Of Chinese Stock Market Fall

2:36pm August 25, 2015

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to three NPR correspondents about the state of the global economy, including Frank Langfitt in Shanghai, Corey Flintoff in Moscow, and Lourdes Garcia-Navarro in Rio de Janeiro.

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Tres hermanas- "Three Sisters", Cuajinicuilapa, Guerrero, Mexico, 1986.

Tony Gleaton: Photographing The African Story Across The Americas

11:23am August 24, 2015

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Tony Gleaton left a budding career in fashion photography to travel across continents, taking pictures of landscapes and people of the Americas that had special meaning for the African diaspora.

Hurricane Danny is seen in a NOAA image taken by the GOES-East satellite taken at 10:15 ET on Thursday. The storm, now a Category 2, is expected to lose strength over the next day or two.

Tropical Storm Danny Losing Strength, But Still Packs A Punch

8:38pm August 22, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The storm, downgraded from a Category 3 hurricane to a tropical storm over the course of Saturday, is expected to continue to lose steam as it heads toward the the eastern Caribbean.