Latin America

2 Brazilian security officials are accused of colluding with rioters

5:11am January 11, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

Authorities in Brazil issued arrest warrants and are searching for those who aided anti-government rioters in Sunday's attack on official buildings in the South American nation's capital.

The attack on Brazil's Congress was stoked by social media

5:11am January 11, 2023

The attack on Brazil's Congress was organized publicly online. Despite being on high alert, social media companies missed signs that their platforms were being used to plan violence.

Brazil officials are looking into why rioters saw such little resistance from police

5:59pm January 10, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

Authorities in Brazil are investigating the security and intelligence breakdown that led to the attack on the country's capital last Sunday.

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Where similarities between government attacks in Brazil and the U.S. begin — and end

5:59pm January 10, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Guilherme Casarões, political science professor in Brazil, about the parallels between Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro in the wake of riots in the Brazilian capital.

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Colombian Vice President Francia Marquez speaks at a museum in Bogota on Oct. 3, 2022. Marquez said on Tuesday that her security team found more than seven kilos of explosives buried next to a rural road that leads to her home.

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Colombia's VP says a bomb discovered near her home was an assassination attempt

4:55pm January 10, 2023

by The Associated Press

Vice President Francia Marquez said that her security team found more than seven kilos of explosives buried next to a rural road that leads to her home. She has previously faced death threats.

A gravedigger prepares to bury the coffin of a baby who died of COVID-19, at a cemetery in Bandung, Indonesia. Rates of childhood mortality are notably high in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, but it is a worldwide concern.

A child or youth died every 4.4 seconds in 2021. That number could get worse

2:46pm January 10, 2023

by Susan Brink

A new U.N. report shows that child mortality rates are declining, but the yearly improvements have slowed. And the drop-off in childhood vaccinations during the pandemic causes concern for the future.

Damage is seen at Brazil's Congress one day after supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in Brasília. The attack was planned by far-right groups on social media, according to Brazilian media and analysts.

The attack on Brazil's Congress was stoked by social media — and by Trump allies

2:10pm January 10, 2023

The similarities are deep: In addition to aiming to subvert an election, some of the same U.S. voices that amplify former President Donald Trump are echoing Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro.

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Talks on Monday between President Biden and Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador got off to a bumpy start.

Talks between Biden and Mexico's López Obrador got off to a bit of a rough start

11:24am January 10, 2023

The two leaders set out to talk about working together on migration, fentanyl interdiction and the economy. But first, they sparred over the history of U.S. support in Latin America.

Sunday's violence exposed the political and social fault lines in Brazil

8:14am January 10, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

President Biden says Brazil's leader has his full support after rioters ransacked government offices. The rampage by supporters of former President Bolsonaro exposed political and social fault lines.

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Authorities in Brazil have been rounding up rioters who attacked Congress

5:07am January 10, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Michael McKinley about the attack on Brazil's government and implications for U.S.-Brazil relations.