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Bringing Poetry And High Culture To Sao Paulo's Periphery

11:40am April 19, 2014

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Poetry in an unlikely place: In a grim urban shanty town in the middle of Sao Paulo, budding poets from the poorest sections of Brazilian society get together weekly to compose and recite poetry.

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Colombia Mourns Death Of Favorite Son: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

11:10am April 18, 2014

by Juan Forero

Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 87, died on Thursday. He made Colombia synonymous with literature, particularly the dreamlike, whimsical story-telling known as magical realism.

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World News

Was ZunZuneo To Promote Free Speech Or Destabilize Cuba?

8:09am April 08, 2014

David Greene to Julia Sweig, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, about revelations the USAID created and ran a now-defunct Cuban Twitter communications network from 2010 to 2012.

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ATF Works To Slow Flow Of U.S. Weapons Across Border

7:53am April 03, 2014

by Ted Robbins

Most of the guns in Mexico come from north of the border. The U.S. has taken steps aimed at slowing gun smugglers, especially since the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives scandal.

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World News

Vicious Gang, Barrio Azteca, Gets Its Start In El Paso

8:35am March 31, 2014

by Monica Ortiz Uribe

In Texas, an El Paso-based gang has spread across the U.S., and has also sent some members to Mexico for training with the Zetas. They became a transnational gang due to the drug trafficking industry.

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Venezuelans line up to buy goods at a store in Caracas on March 10. Protesters have been taking to the streets for weeks over the country's troubled economy and other issues. The government introduced a new foreign currency exchange system on Monday, seek

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Short On Dollars, Venezuela Tries To Halt Black-Market Trading

9:45pm March 24, 2014

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Venezuela placed controls on its currency as it rapidly lost its value. But that only made matters worse. Now it is rolling out a new system in hopes of stabilizing its weak currency.

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National

Troncoso Family Finds Success On U.S. Side Of Border With Mexico

12:25pm March 24, 2014

by Steve Inskeep

Stories from the Morning Edition road trip along the U.S.-Mexico border continues with a stop in El Paso, Texas. The Troncoso family of Mexico crossed a quarter mile into the U.S. many years ago.

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Dob Cunningham (left) and his friend Larry Johnson look over the edge of Cunningham's 800-acre ranch in Quemado, Texas.

Always Watching: A Fragile Trust Lines The U.S.-Mexico Border

2:21pm March 22, 2014

by Steve Inskeep

Border Patrol agents seem to be everywhere along the U.S. side of the Mexican border, and residents are also on guard. Yet amid distrust and heavy surveillance, there is compassion.

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Dob Cunningham (right) and his friend Larry Johnson stand on the edge of Cunningham's 800-acre ranch in Quemado, Texas, which touches the Rio Grande. On the other side, Mexico.

Borderland: A Journey Along The Changing Frontier

5:42pm March 19, 2014

by Steve Inskeep

Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep traveled the length of the U.S.-Mexico border to explore how the two countries are linked — and how they are separated.

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World News

Drug Cartel Boss Dies A Second Time

9:34am March 11, 2014

by Carrie Kahn

Nazario Moreno, leader of the Knights Templar drug cartel, is dead — again. He was wrongly confirmed dead in 2010, but now, Mexican authorities claim they know "100 percent" that they killed him.

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