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Half of Peru's population is food insecure

4:24pm September 27, 2022

by Simeon Tegel

No country in South America has been hit harder by the global cost of living crisis than Peru, where half the population is now suffering from food insecurity as a result of rising prices.

Jesus Rodrigues loads wood into his vehicle Monday outside a Home Depot store in Orlando, Fla., in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Ian.

Ian is intensifying into a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane before it hits Florida

1:17pm September 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

Ian had top winds of 125 mph and storm surge up to 14 feet as it moved over the western end of Cuba. It could head for Tampa and St. Petersburg next, the first direct hit on those cities in a century.

Cuba's President Miguel Díaz-Canel speaks to the press on Sunday after casting his vote at a polling station in Havana during the new family law referendum.

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Cuba approves same-sex marriage in a referendum

11:22am September 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

Cubans have approved a sweeping "family law" code that will allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt as well as redefining rights for children and grandparents, officials said.

Protesters in Mexico City demand to know what happened to 43 college students

5:12am September 27, 2022

by Eyder Peralta

Ongoing demonstrations in Mexico are marking the anniversary of the massacre in 2014 that resulted in the murders and disappearances of 43 students from a college in a rural south-western state.

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro greets supporters during a reelection campaign rally. Ahead of the first round of voting on Oct. 2, Bolsonaro has baselessly claimed that voting machines will be rigged against him, an echo of former U.S. President Donald Trump's false claims about the 2020 election.

Brazilians are about to vote. And they're dealing with familiar viral election lies

5:00am September 27, 2022

by Shannon Bond

As Brazilians head to the polls to vote for president, they're being deluged by a wave of falsehoods that echo Donald Trump's claims of a stolen election.

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Many fear Brazil will see its own 'Big Lie' about election fraud soon

6:09pm September 26, 2022

by Shannon Bond

As Brazilians head to the polls to vote for president, they're being deluged by a wave of falsehoods that echo Donald Trump's claims of a stolen election.

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El Salvador's president has taken over the government and installed martial law

5:39pm September 26, 2022

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has struck fear into the hearts of human rights activists in the country by installing martial law and imprisoning over 50,000 people.

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After 7 years, the Colombia-Venezuela border is reopening to trade

7:42am September 26, 2022

But what does it mean for Venezuelans who might be trying to leave their country? NPR's Leila Fadel talks to reporter Manuel Rueda, who is in Cucuta on the Colombian side of the border.

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Colombia and Venezuela are re-opening their border after seven years

8:03am September 25, 2022

What might the official re-opening of the border to trade between Colombia and Venezuela mean for the two countries - and for the record number of Venezuelans trying to leave their own country?

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A worker performs maintenance on pipes used during brine extraction at a lithium mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile on Aug. 24.

In Chile's desert lie vast reserves of lithium — key for electric car batteries

6:00am September 24, 2022

by John Otis

Chile is part of a South American region known as the "lithium triangle," where miners are trying to meet skyrocketing demand for the material.