Many fear Brazil will see its own 'Big Lie' about election fraud soon
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.
Latin America
El Salvador's president has taken over the government and installed martial law
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.
After 7 years, the Colombia-Venezuela border is reopening to trade
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.
Colombia and Venezuela are re-opening their border after seven years
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?
In Chile's desert lie vast reserves of lithium — key for electric car batteries
Chile is part of a South American region known as the "lithium triangle," where miners are trying to meet skyrocketing demand for the material.
'Fat Leonard,' a fugitive in a massive Navy bribery case, has been caught in Venezuela
Leonard Francis, a Malaysian defense contractor nicknamed "Fat Leonard" who orchestrated one of the largest bribery scandals in U.S. military history, had fled house arrest prior to his sentencing.
Puerto Rico's southern coastal communities may be some of the last to get power back
Hurricane Fiona walloped all of Puerto Rico, but areas in the south were particularly hard hit. Unrelenting rain flooded out communities and swamped many neighborhoods.
Rep. Jenniffer González-Colón on Puerto Rico's Fiona damage, 5 years after Maria
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner, Jenniffer González-Colón, about the devastation of the island's critical infrastructure by Hurricane Fiona.
A 7.6 magnitude earthquake shakes Mexico on the anniversary of two previous quakes
The earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast on Monday, killing at least one person and setting off a seismic alarm in the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier devastating quakes.
Spanish 'Dracula' finds new blood, more than 90 years after its release
In 1931, an entire new cast and crew reshot Dracula into Spanish on the Universal Studios lot.