Latin America

As Panama's Economy Booms, So Do Concerns Over Debt And The Environment

9:44am July 01, 2015

by Carrie Kahn

Panama's economy, while cooling in recent years, is still growing at astonishing rates compared to its neighbors. But environmental damage and huge government debt are part of the package.

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Brazil Tries To Rebuild Relations With U.S. After NSA Spying Scandal

1:53pm June 30, 2015

by Jackie Northam

Two years ago, President Dilma Rousseff canceled a planned state visit after discovering the U.S. was spying on Brazil. Since that time, her popularity has nosedived, and so too has Brazil's economy.

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Like Greece, Cash-Strapped Puerto Rico Needs A Fiscal Lifeline

1:00pm June 30, 2015

by Jim Zarroli

Is Puerto Rico America's Greece? Like Greece, Puerto Rico is running out of money and needs more time to pay its bills. There are many similarities, but also important differences.

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Citing Abuse, Haitian Immigrants Flee Dominican Republic

10:40am June 20, 2015

by Peter Granitz

The deadline has passed for illegal immigrants in the Dominican Republic to begin the process to get regularized or to get out of the country. Authorities say most illegal immigrants will be deported.

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Vietnam is seeing an increase in soda drinking.

Guess Which Country Has The Biggest Increase In Soda Drinking

1:22am June 20, 2015

by Marc Silver

It's Cameroon, closely trailed by Vietnam and India. Sugary fizzy drinks are making inroads in the developing world.

Soda delivery in Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City. Between 1989 and 2006, the consumption of sugary drinks increased by 60 percent per capita in Mexico.

Mexico's Sugary Drink Tax Makes A Dent In Consumption, Study Claims

7:52pm June 19, 2015

by Eliza Barclay

Few countries or cities have dared to try a "sin" tax on soda, so no one really knows if a tax would actually get people to drink less. Preliminary results suggest that the tax in Mexico is working.

The Brazilian national flag flutters at the front of the headquarters of the Brazilian state oil giant Petrobras, in Rio de Janeiro.

World News

Brazil Arrests Heads Of 2 Construction Giants In Petrobras Probe

5:43pm June 19, 2015

by Brian Naylor

The two executives, at Odebrecht SA and Andrade Gutierrez, were taken into custody in early morning raids linked to a scandal involving Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras.

Haitians Face Deportation From Dominican Republic As Deadline Nears

2:25pm June 18, 2015

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Michele Wucker, author of Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola, about the tensions between Dominicans and Haitians since 1929.

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Deadline Nears For Haitians Facing Deportation By Dominican Republic

10:50pm June 17, 2015

The Dominican Republic is starting to kick out Haitians who entered the country illegally. Steve Inskeep talks to Ezra Fieser of Bloomberg News.

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Fernando Urias (left) and Victor Manuel Aguirre kiss after they learned they were allowed to marry, during a protest outside the municipal palace in the northern border city of Mexicali, Mexico, on Jan. 17.

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How Mexico Quietly Legalized Same-Sex Marriage

1:03pm June 17, 2015

by Carrie Kahn

A series of low-profile court rulings culminated with a Supreme Court decision this month that says limiting marriage to a man and a woman was discriminatory and in violation of the constitution.

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