New banking services tackle barriers faced by migrants

Portugal’s president says country should apologize, ‘assume responsibility’ for slave trade

Vatican rejects Doctrine of Discovery after years of pressure from Indigenous activists

Former Taiwanese president makes historic visit to China

UNESCO adds an ancient Peruvian solar observatory to its World Heritage Sites

‘Spirit Run’: A new memoir details one man’s journey to reconnect with nature and his Indigenous heritage

Black Lives Matter protests renew parallel debates in Brazil, Colombia

Experts concerned Mexico not taking enough COVID-19 precautions

An LGBTQ rights advocate looks back on the 2010s and ahead to a new decade

Haiti protests summon spirit of the Haitian Revolution to condemn a president tainted by scandal

Brazilian biologist discovers 4 new spider species and names them after heavy metal icons

Teenage activist Greta Thunberg takes protest to climate-change denier Trump

Former FARC leaders announce new armed offensive in Colombia

Mexico wants to run a tourist train through its Mayan heartland — should it?

Guatemalan elections: Corruption, violence — and hope

A family split between the US and Haiti dreads looming loss of legal status

European colonization of the Americas killed 10 percent of world population and caused global cooling

Trump sees opportunity in Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis as midterms approach

Study: Around the world, the super-rich are getting richer

In defiance of Trump, California and Washington join carbon pledge

At the Darién Gap, the Pan-American Highway’s 30,000 mile journey is interrupted by 100 miles of barely tamable jungle

Mexico is waging war against American apples

Four kidnapped Mexican journalists remain missing

No room for African or Indian languages in Disney’s multilingual version of ‘Let It Go’

Here’s what else was going on in the world when Kennedy was assassinated

How Kennedy’s assassination ended hopes for a reconciliation with Castro

Some Baja Californians would rather secede than pay higher sales tax

China’s giant, killer hornets are straight out of a horror movie

Argentina’s Dirty War revisited after new pope is elected

Costa Rica moves toward national ban on hunting

Lizards point out how single species can be greatly altered by environment

Haiti on brink of becoming latest member of African Union

Spanish-American singer uses blended culture to craft her music

DNA study finds first Americans arrived in waves

Archaeologist argues first Americans were from Europe 22,000 years ago

Colombia’s local elections mired in fraud and corruption

Human rights in ‘Cancer Alley’

H1N1 and public health

A look inside political rallies

How sustainable is that certified seafood?

Why Crime is on the Rise in Venezuela

When Will We Have a Female Pope?

200 Arrested in Raid on Latin American Wood Mafia

Costa Rica Bans Hunting

Essay: The Roots of Opposition to the U.N. Disability Convention

African Union to Expand Beyond African Borders?

From Native Americans to the ADA: A History of Disabilities in the United States

Free Speech in Ecuador has Limits

An Infamous Dinner: Washington, Roosevelt and Race in America

Cuba and Drugs to Dominate Summit of the Americas

Locos por Juana, from Colombia, via Miami

Rastafarians in Ethiopia

Where Apples Come From

Local Elections In Colombia Fraught With Problems

Captain Morgan’s cannons

Mapping the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Educators amend Columbus Day lessons in schools

Analyzing national unemployment

Today in space: shuttle lift-off, Leonids ho-hum

There are two Americas and one of them has no bank account