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Latin America

Energy
Cuba’s long-ailing power supply fails
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Eneas Espinoza, who says he was sexually abused multiple times when he was a child, by several catholic priests in Chile
Sexual violence
A growing number of clerical sexual abuse survivors are coming forward in Latin America
A display of a variety of guns on a table made from unauthorized parts
Violence
President Biden set to further regulate ‘ghost guns’
A group of women raise their arms and wave green flags
Reproductive rights
Bill legalizing abortion passed in pope’s native Argentina
A man in a suit speaks in public
Global Politics
Trump’s pick to lead Latin American development bank is mired in controversy
Three women on stage gesticulating, one with blackface pounding her chest
Arts, Culture & Media
A Miami theater group has a change of heart over blackface
Rebuilding Brazil’s economy requires more than BRICS and China
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Police interrogate a suspected gang member against a wall with his hands behind his head.
Conflict
Will Trump continue Obama’s program to aid Central American teens fleeing gangs?
Valdez protest
Media
Mourning a journalist in Mexico who said ‘no to silence’
Café Tacvba band members Quique Rangel, Rubén Albarrán, Joselo Rangel and Meme del Real
Music
This aged well: Mexico’s Café Tacvba still rocks, hard
Artisanal mining
Jobs
El Salvador’s new metal-mining ban is terrifying for ‘artisanal’ miners
Ertha Papillon
Development
With no public officials in sight, a local Haitian leader takes matters into her own hands
Maritza Blandón, a coffee grower in the mountains of Nicaragua, got her first pap smear at the age of 47. She tested posted for HPV and get treatment. Blandón is a single mother. If she died of cervical cancer, no one would be here to take care of her eig
Health
Nicaragua has a cervical cancer problem. A coffee farm is trying to help.
Teen pregnancy in Nicaragua is mostly caused by machismo culture and a lack of sex ed.
Health
Nicaragua’s teen pregnancy rate soars
Peruvian shamans holding a poster of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump perform a ritual of predictions for the new year at Morro Solar hill in Chorrillos, Lima, Peru, Dec. 29, 2015. The ritual is an end-of-the-year tradition and the shaman
Global Politics
Why Latin American leftists would love a President Trump
A priest holds up a banner reading "Brazil alive! Without abortion" while standing near an altar where Pope Francis later celebrated mass.
Health
Thanks to Zika, now we know Latin America has the toughest abortion policies in the world
Brazilian soldiers inspecting water container for Zika
Health
Improving water sources, sanitation facilities and poverty alleviation may not be the solution to Brazil’s Zika outbreak
This home once belonged to the Schechter family in Cuba
Global Politics
‘The property was stolen by the Cuban government’
Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain listens to a journalist's question as he attends a media conference ahead of the Brazilian F1 Grand Prix in Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 12, 2015.
Culture
How do you say ‘Bro’ in Latin America?
Aleszu Bajak
Rethinking the Latin American Science Beat with Aleszu Bajak
Full Episode
Vintage Postcard of Cruise from Miami to Havana
America and Cuba: After the Thaw
Full Episode
Eight-year-old Susan Cruz enjoying her first Christmas in the United States in 1978.
Conflict & Justice
What does it take for a Salvadoran girl to make her way in America?
Santiago Ramírez at the Real Sound Studio in Bogota, where they compose jingles for political candidates. He says they once had a conservative client, a Colombian Mitt Romney-type, who asked for a raunchy reggaeton tune so he could connect with young vote
Global Politics
In Colombia, if you want to stand out in a political race, you have to hire a jingle writer
Panama Martyrs Day
Global Politics
50 years ago this week, riots determined the fate of the Panama Canal
Germany's Reichstag building pictured though a flag depicting former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Conflict & Justice
Edward Snowden extends a helping hand to Brazil, hoping for asylum
Global Politics
Don’t expect Brazil to offer Snowden asylum
U.S. President Barack Obama greets Cuban President Raul Castro before giving his speech, as Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff looks on, at the memorial service for late South African President Nelson Mandela
Global Politics
This handshake is being heard — or rather, dissected — around the world
Arts, Culture & Media
Peruvian-born, American-bred author tells stories through the lens of his native land
Joyce Cândido
Arts, Culture & Media
Joyce Cândido is the young voice of samba in Rio de Janeiro
"Viva Africando" CD Cover.
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Viva Africando’ is a love letter from West Africa to Latin salsa
Ancient Pyramid Destroyed in Peru as Developers Eye Land
Cuba Colors Itself Yellow for “Los Cinco” Prisoners in the U.S.
Racism Greets Imported Cuban Doctors in Brazil