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2 recent incidents have put a spotlight on Brazil's relationship with race

5:23pm January 25, 2022

by Philip Reeves

An American music producer was attacked as he waited to check in to a hotel in Rio de Janeiro. He is Black, the attackers are white. It is another example of Brazil's fraught relationship with race.

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Mexico has become a world leader of gender equality in politics

5:08pm January 25, 2022

by Carrie Kahn

In Mexico, half of Congress is now female and seven of the country's 32 governors are women. This is partly due to changing attitudes but also to federally mandated gender equality laws.

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Ex-paramilitaries in Guatemala sentenced to prison for raping Indigenous women

6:16am January 25, 2022

by Maria Martin

Judges in Guatemala City on Monday found five men guilty of raping three dozen women some 40 years ago — during the height of the violence in Guatemala's long civil conflict.

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Protesters in Cuba face severe sentences as crackdown continues

4:41pm January 24, 2022

NPR's Asma Khalid talks with Ed Augustin, correspondent for The Guardian in Cuba, about the ongoing trials against hundreds of people who participated in mass protests in the summer of 2021.

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Family and colleagues of a Mexican crime photographer gather to pay final respects

7:42am January 21, 2022

by Carrie Kahn

Photojournalist Margarito Martinez was shot dead this week in the northern border city of Tijuana, the second journalist to be killed in Mexico in just weeks.

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Mexican journalist Margarito Martínez has been murdered in Tijuana

5:09pm January 20, 2022

by Carrie Kahn

The latest journalist to be murdered in Mexico is Tijuana photojournalist Margarito Martínez, a beloved figure in the community. His funeral is Thursday.

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Oil pollutes Cavero beach in Ventanilla, Callao, Peru, on Tuesday after high waves attributed to the eruption of an undersea volcano in Tonga caused an oil spill.

The Tonga volcano caused an oil spill on Peru's coast. Fishermen are protesting

12:50pm January 19, 2022

by The Associated Press

Because of waves from Saturday's eruption, an estimated 6,000 barrels of oil were spilled near Peru's main refinery on the coast in an area rich in marine biodiversity.

Mexico's oldest living ex-president turned 100, but it wasn't widely celebrated

7:30am January 18, 2022

by Carrie Kahn

Luis Echeverria served as president in the early 1970s during hard economic times. He is most remembered for his repression of the country's democracy movement and initiating Mexico's "Dirty War."

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A man cries over his mother's grave in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept. 29, 2020. Iris Gonçalves Alves died at age 54 the previous day from COVID-19, according to the information on her burial record. During the

What happens when isolation goes beyond a pandemic

8:55am January 17, 2022

Photographer Raphael Alves documented how socioeconomic issues worsen the COVID-19 pandemic in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.

A world map highlighting the countries that remain below 10% fully vaccinated, mostly in Africa.

For the 36 countries with the lowest vaccination rates, supply isn't the only issue

12:42pm January 14, 2022

by Jason Beaubien

Even as wealthy countries hit 80% vaccination rates, a number of countries have not even vaccinated 1 in 10 citizens. Our interactive map shows the vaccination landscape.