Latin America

Roqia Qasqari, right, who lives in Gero village in Afghanistan's Bamyan Province, inspects potatoes stored from a previous harvest. Snow was scarce over the winter, raising fears of a severe drought in 2021.

10 global crises to pay attention to in 2022, according to 'The New Humanitarian'

12:09pm January 14, 2022

by Joanne Lu

The New Humanitarian has compiled its list of the conflicts, disasters and threats to watch this year. Editor Josephine Schmidt discusses how they came up with the list.

World News

Journalists probing Salvadoran government were spied on using military-grade tech

5:22pm January 13, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Julia Gavarrete, a journalist at the digital newspaper El Faro, about a recent study confirming that 22 journalists from El Faro were spied on using the spyware Pegasus.

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Two of the children who came for a meal at a soup kitchen in Caracas run by the charity Alimenta la Solidaridad. It serves about 100 people and operates Monday through Friday.

Health & Safety

Why the kids of Venezuela aren't getting enough to eat

6:29pm January 11, 2022

by John Otis

Many are small for their age — a sign of a growing crisis of malnutrition. Government mismanagement is to blame, say political analysts. And there could be lifelong impacts for these children.

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Children face malnutrition under the Venezuelan government's mismanagement

4:31pm January 11, 2022

by John Otis

Venezuela is facing a long-term catastrophe of its own making: widespread child malnutrition. Years of economic mismanagement have brought massive poverty and food shortages.

A tourist boat navigates through a canyon in Furnas Lake, near Capitolio City, Brazil, on Sept. 2, 2021. A massive slab of rock broke away on Saturday from the canyon wall and and toppled onto pleasure boaters killing at least six people and injuring doze

World News

A wall of rock fell on boaters in a Brazilian lake, killing 6

7:13pm January 08, 2022

by The Associated Press

A towering slab of rock broke from a cliff and toppled onto pleasure boaters drifting near a waterfall in a Brazilian lake Saturday.

World News

Venezuelans are cooking over wood fires because of a shortage of propane

8:47am January 08, 2022

by John Otis

In a great irony, Venezuelans are cooking their meals over wood fires because of a shortage of propane. This is in a nation with among the largest oil and natural gas reserves in the world.

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This photo released by the the National Galapagos Park communications office shows lava from the eruption of Wolf Volcano on Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, on Friday.

Tallest Galapagos volcano erupts, spewing lava and ash

2:54am January 08, 2022

by The Associated Press

Ecuador's Emergency Operations Committee said the eruption on Isabela Island didn't represent a risk to humans or to native local species.

World News

Institutions in remote Honduras are permeated by organized drug crime

5:35pm January 07, 2022

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with veteran journalist Carlos Dada, founder of El Faro newspaper, about his latest reporting from Honduras.

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Brazil's president is in the hospital with a intestinal obstruction

7:27am January 04, 2022

by Philip Reeves

President Jair Bolsonaro has been admitted to a Sao Paolo hospital after suffering from complications related to an assassination attempt in 2018.

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National

The trip to the U.S. Southern border is hard, let alone for kids traveling alone

5:41am January 04, 2022

by John Burnett

The last decade has seen a historic migration of unaccompanied children crossing the U.S. border with Mexico. What does the future hold for America's newest child migrants?

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