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News Articles: Latin America

Smoke rises from a deadly fire at a large oil storage facility in Matanzas, Cuba, on Tuesday. The fire was triggered by lighting that struck one of the facility's eight tanks late Friday.

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  • Latin America

A raging fire at a Cuban oil facility worsens the island's energy crisis

Flames engulfed a fourth tank at an oil storage facility as the fire consumes critical fuel supplies on an island grappling with a growing energy crisis.

August 09, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The Galápagos land iguana is making a comeback on Santiago Island. Conservationists say the species is showing signs of being successfully reintroduced.

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  • Science

An island in the Galápagos reintroduced iguanas after nearly 200 years of extinction

The Galápagos land iguana is back on Santiago Island. That's thanks to some help from a team of conservationists.

August 08, 2022
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By:
  • Dustin Jones
Colombia's President-elect Gustavo Petro speaks to students at Externado University in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, July 26, 2022.

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  • Latin America

Ex-rebel sworn in as Colombia's president in historic shift

Colombia's first leftist president will be sworn into office Sunday, promising to fight inequality and heralding a turning point in the history of the country.

August 07, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Workers of the Cuba Oil Union, known by the Spanish acronym CUPET, watch a huge rising plume of smoke from the Matanzas Supertanker Base, as firefighters work to quell a blaze which began during a thunderstorm the night before, in Matazanas, Cuba, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022.

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  • Latin America

17 missing, 121 hurt, 1 dead in fire at Cuban oil facility

A fire set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage facility raged uncontrolled in the Cuban city of Matanzas, where four explosions and flames injured 121 people and left 17 firefighters missing.

August 07, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Miguel Peña and Juan Carlos Allende, Los Macorinos. Photo by Alejandra Barragán.

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  • Arts & Life

Los Macorinos, the unsung heroes of Latin and Mexican music

The guitar duet has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, including Natalia Lafourcade, Chavela Vargas and Liza Minelli.

August 07, 2022
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By:
  • Betto Arcos
From left to right: Alice Paredes, Sriya Chippalthurty, Liliana Talino and Natalia Perez Morales are Girl Up "teen advisers" who give up their hobbies to help disadvantaged girls and women in their communities.

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  • Global Health

What these teen girls do — and don't — have time for might surprise and inspire you

On top of schoolwork and chores, these four Girl Up "teen advisers" sometimes give up their favorite hobbies to try and "save the world." They talk about their activism — and their role models.

July 23, 2022
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  • Max Barnhart
A resident waves a white sheet in protest and to ask for peace after a police operation that resulted in multiple deaths, in the Complexo do Alemao favela in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.

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  • Latin America

A raid in a Rio favela left 18 dead, sparking renewed police violence complaints

A raid of Rio de Janeiro's largest complex of favelas has sparked renewed complaints of excessive police violence and ignited debate over how to handle crime ahead of state and presidential elections.

July 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Photos of Jair Valencia, left, Misael Olivares, center, and Yovani Valencia are displayed on an altar at their home in San Marcos Atexquilapan, Mexico, on July 13, 2022. The three were among a group of migrants who died of heat and dehydration in a locked tractor-trailer abandoned by smugglers on the outskirts of San Antonio on June 27.

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  • Law

2 men are indicted in the tractor-trailer case that left migrants dead in Texas

A federal grand jury indicted Homero Zamorano Jr. and Christian Martinez, both of Pasadena, Texas, on counts of transporting and conspiring to transport migrants illegally resulting in death.

July 21, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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 confirmed Friday.

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  • Latin America

Mexico captures an infamous drug lord who killed a DEA agent

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.

July 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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 partnership to make mRNA vaccines accessible to the world.

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  • Global Health

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

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.

July 13, 2022
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  • Nurith Aizenman
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pulls out his remarks in the Oval Office.

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  • Politics

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

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.

July 12, 2022
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  • Scott Detrow
Luis Echeverria Alvarez, a former president of Mexico, has died at age 100.

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  • Latin America

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

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.

July 09, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
El grupo colombiano Itinerante.

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  • Music

Itinerante, un trío que revive la música andina de Colombia

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

July 08, 2022
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  • Betto Arcos
Barbecue, the leader of the "G9 and Family" gang, stands next to garbage Oct. 22 to call attention to the conditions people live in as he leads a march against kidnapping through La Saline neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The group said they were also protesting poverty and for justice in the slaying of President Jovenel Moise.

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  • Latin America

A year after the president's assassination, Haitians endure a broken nation or flee

With warring gangs and a powerless government since Jovenel Moïse was killed in his home, many are risking perilous voyages on rickety boats to start lives elsewhere.

July 07, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The Colombian group Itinerante.

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  • Arts & Life

Meet Itinerante, a trio reviving Colombia's Andean music

Played on three string instruments, this music was the country's soundtrack from the turn of the 20th century to the 1940s.

July 06, 2022
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  • Betto Arcos
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