Latin America

In her memoir, author Ingrid Rojas Contreras shares her family's mystical history

6:18pm July 18, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Ingrid Rojas Contreras about her memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, and how writing it helped her rediscover herself after losing her memory.

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A water crisis restricts usage to 6 hours a day in one of Mexico's largest cities

8:09am July 16, 2022

by Scott Simon

Scott Simon talks with Associated Press reporter Marcos Martinez Chacon about the water crisis affecting the residents of Monterrey, one of Mexico's largest cities.

The viral song 'Mi Bebito Fiu Fiu' narrates a salacious presidential scandal in Peru

8:04am July 16, 2022

by Scott Simon

There's a Peruvian political scandal behind the viral "Mi Bebito Fiu Fiu" song and meme on TikTok. Journalist Diego Salazar explains.

This image released by the FBI shows the wanted poster for Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985. Caro Quintero has been captured by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison, an official c

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Mexico captures an infamous drug lord who killed a DEA agent

5:33pm July 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

Rafael Caro Quintero has been captured by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a prison and returning to drug trafficking, an official confirmed.

Patricia Neves (left) and Ana Paula Ano Bom take a break at the institute in Rio de Janeiro where they work. The two scientists say they've been inseparable since they met in college. Now their friendship has made it possible to launch a remarkable partne

These Brazilian besties are inventing an mRNA vaccine as a gift to the world

6:20pm July 13, 2022

by Nurith Aizenman

Pfizer and Moderna have refused to divulge details of how to make their cutting-edge COVID shots. Here's what two scientists — and longtime best friends — are doing about it.

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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pulls out his remarks in the Oval Office.

Biden gets an earful in the Oval from Mexican President López Obrador

3:20pm July 12, 2022

by Scott Detrow

President Biden met with Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador a month after the Mexican president boycotted a regional summit. Biden's public remarks were brief. López Obrador — not so much.

Mexico's Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will meet with Joe Biden today

5:00am July 12, 2022

by Carrie Kahn

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is traveling to Washington, D.C. to meet with President Joe Biden at a low point in US-Mexico relations.

Luis Echeverria Alvarez, a former president of Mexico, has died at age 100.

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Luis Echeverria, a Mexican leader who was blamed for massacres, dies at age 100

2:50pm July 09, 2022

by The Associated Press

The former president, blamed for some of Mexico's worst political killings of the 20th century, has died at the age of 100, current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed.

Itinerante, un trío que revive la música andina de Colombia

12:35pm July 08, 2022

by Betto Arcos

Tocada en tres instrumentos de cuerda, esta música fue la banda sonora del país desde principios del siglo XX hasta la década de 1940.

What Haiti looks like a year after its president was assassinated

4:22pm July 07, 2022

by Carrie Kahn

Even after a year, much is still unknown about the figures behind the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. It has created a political vacuum filled by instability and gang violence.