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News Articles: Latin America

A little girl and her baby brother were taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents this week after they were discovered abandoned along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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  • National

U.S. Border Agents Found A Toddler And A Baby Abandoned Along The Rio Grande

With her hair neatly braided, the girl sat next to her baby brother, dressed for an outing, complete with a backpack and note — but their parents were nowhere to be found, the U.S. Border Patrol said.

September 16, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
The chile en nogada — a stuffed poblano pepper covered in a walnut sauce — has become a classic Mexican dish. The version plated here comes from Ricardo Muñoz Zurita's Azul Condesa restaurant in Mexico City.

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  • Food

For 200 Years, Chiles En Nogada Has Been An Iconic, And Patriotic, Mexican Meal

In celebration of Mexico's Independence Day, many people will eat the green, white and red dish of stuffed peppers in walnut sauce. Noted chef and cookbook author Pati Jinich is among them.

September 16, 2021
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By:
  • Gus Contreras,
  • Amy Isackson,
  • and 1 more
In this Sept. 1992 file photo, Abimael Guzmán, the founder and leader of the Shining Path guerrilla movement, shouts inside of a jail cell after being captured in Lima, Peru. The Peruvian government reported Saturday that Guzman died after an illness.

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  • Latin America

Abimael Guzmán, Leader Of Shining Path Insurgency In Peru, Dies At 86

The former philosophy professor launched an insurgency against the Peruvian government in 1980 and presided over numerous car bombings and assassinations in the years that followed.

September 11, 2021
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramirez in 2017 upon receiving the Cervantes Prize literary award. Prosecutors have ordered Ramirez' arrest along with other opponents of President Daniel Ortega.

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  • Latin America

Nicaragua Is Moving To Arrest One Of Its Leading Writers In A Pre-election Crackdown

Prosecutors ordered the arrest of Sergio Ramirez, one of the country's most distinguished writers, who is now out of the country. President Daniel Ortega is arresting opponents ahead of elections.

September 09, 2021
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook Acapulco, Mexico, on Wednesday. After the quake, Mexicans shared videos of bursts of blue lights streaking across the sky.

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  • Latin America

First Came A Quake In Mexico, Then Strange Blue Lights. People Feared The Apocalypse

Mexicans are sharing spectacular videos of bursts of blue lights seen streaking across the skies after a 7.0 earthquake rattled the country's Pacific coast on Wednesday.

September 09, 2021
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
GPB News NPR

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  • Latin America

Mexico's Abortion Ruling Could Mean Change For The Country And The Region

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with María Antonieta Alcalde, director of reproductive rights organization Ipas in Central America and Mexico, on what Mexico's recent abortion ruling means for Latin America.

September 08, 2021
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By:
  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Amy Isackson,
  • and 1 more
Damaged cars are seen outside a hotel after a quake in Acapulco, Guerrero state, Mexico, on Wednesday.

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  • Latin America

Watch Pets And People Run For Cover As A Powerful Earthquake Strikes Mexico

This video from Mexico City's Azcapotzalco neighborhood shows startled occupants of an apartment rush to steady themselves as the 7.1 magnitude earthquake shakes their building.

September 08, 2021
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By:
  • NPR Staff
GPB News NPR

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  • Latin America

El Salvador Has Adopted Bitcoin As Legal Tender — The First Country To Do So

El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, kicking off a big and bold experiment for the popular cryptocurrency.

September 07, 2021
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By:
  • Tim Padgett
Activists supporting the decriminalization of abortion in Mexico march in Guadalajara, Mexico, on September 28, 2019. Mexico's Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion.

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  • Latin America

Mexico's Supreme Court Has Voted To Decriminalize Abortion

"Today is a historic day for the rights of all Mexican women," said Supreme Court Chief Justice Arturo Zaldivar on Tuesday.

September 07, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
The Rev. Calixte Dorval in the remains of the Mission Evangélique Baptiste du Sud d'Haiti Picot in Marceline, Haiti, which was destroyed in the 7.2 magnitude earthquake.

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  • World

The Haiti Earthquake's Latest Victim May Be The New School Year

School is scheduled to begin Monday, but with hundreds of schools damaged or destroyed Haitian officials are considering a postponement.

September 05, 2021
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
Journalist and activist Gildo Garza, right, reads the names of murdered journalists at a demonstration outside the federal attorney general's office in Mexico City.

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  • World

Mexico's Journalists Speak Truth To Power, And Lose Their Lives For It

A government agency protects 1,500 journalists and human rights activists, but it is strapped for resources and its record is mixed.

September 04, 2021
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By:
  • James Fredrick
Dr. Antoine Titus talks to a walk-up patient at Immaculée Conception Hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti, where he was made chief physician the day of the 7.2 magnitude earthquake.

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  • World

In Over 2 Weeks Since The Haiti Earthquake, This ER Doctor Hasn't Slept At Home

What should have been an ordinary Saturday at the emergency room instead became a day Dr. Antoine Titus cannot forget.

August 30, 2021
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
Blanca Cardenas, professor of ethnology at the National School of Anthropology and History, wears the mask "COVID Tiger," by Nahua artisan Armando Pascualeño from Zitlala, Guerrero, Mexico.

Tagged as: 

  • Arts & Life

PHOTOS: Mexican Artists Create Fantastical Masks To Show The Many Faces Of COVID

Two professors invited indigenous artisans to make masks portraying the agent of the pandemic — the coronavirus — through the lens of their cultural traditions.

August 28, 2021
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By:
  • Cathy Newman
Samantha Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, speaks during a joint press conference with Haitian officials at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port-Au-Prince on Thursday.

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  • World

The U.S. Is Pledging Aid To Haiti But The Success Of Past Efforts Has Been Mixed

USAID Administrator Samantha Power appeared with Haiti's prime minister to pledge $32 million in assistance for the earthquake-damaged nation. The primary needs are for shelter and medical care.

August 26, 2021
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
Families wait to receive humanitarian aid from a U.S. Army helicopter unit in the town of Anse-A-Veau, Haiti, on Wednesday.

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  • Latin America

Almost 2 Weeks After The Quake, Aid Is Just Getting To Some Remote Towns In Haiti

The magnitude 7.2 earthquake killed more than 2,000 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes in Haiti's southern peninsula. Recovery efforts have been slow.

August 26, 2021
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan and
  • Carrie Kahn
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