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News Articles: Latin America

Cubans line up to buy food in Havana on March 3. The island nation is working to develop a vaccine against COVID-19. If successful, the island nation hopes to produce 1 to 2 million doses a month.

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

Cuba's Revolutionary Dream: Making Its Own COVID Vaccine

Cuba is going it alone. No contracts with big drug makers, no support from WHO's vaccine program. If successful, Cuba will be the first producer of a vaccine in Latin America.

March 26, 2021
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
GPB  NPR

Tagged as: 

  • Latin America

VP Harris To Work With Central American Countries To Address Root Causes Of Migration

Vice President Harris will take on her first foreign policy portfolio: working with Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to address the root causes of migration to the U.S.-Mexico border.

March 24, 2021
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
GPB  NPR

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

Brazil Is Looking Like The Worst Place On Earth For COVID-19

Brazil reported a terrible milestone: over 3,000 deaths in a day. The country is in crisis, with hospitals at capacity, politicians attacked for lockdowns and a controversial president.

March 24, 2021
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By:
  • Philip Reeves
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas addresses a press briefing this month. Mayorkas has tried to discourage migrants from coming north and blamed the Trump administration for dismantling the system that processes and cares for them.

Tagged as: 

  • Politics

Despite 'Ample Warning,' U.S. Was Unprepared For Latest Surge Of Migrant Children

President Biden's administration is scrambling to contain one of the first big political firestorms of his presidency as thousands of migrant children arrive at the border without their parents.

March 22, 2021
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By:
  • Joel Rose
Roberta Jacobson, the White House coordinator for the southern border, addresses migration issues during a daily press briefing this month.

Tagged as: 

  • Politics

Biden Sends Top Officials To Mexico As Border Surge Continues

Two members of President Biden's National Security Council, Roberta Jacobson and Juan Gonzalez, will travel to Mexico, a senior administration official told reporters.

March 22, 2021
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández (left) speaks with then-Vice President Biden during a news conference in Guatemala City on March 2, 2015. Leaders from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras were meeting with Biden for two days of talks about child migrants entering the United States.

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  • Latin America

With Honduras' Narco Allegations, Pressure Rises To Sanction Its Leader

U.S. prosecutors say President Juan Orlando Hernández enabled drug trafficking into the U.S., and Democratic lawmakers want punishment. It comes as President Biden seeks Central American aid.

March 18, 2021
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By:
  • James Fredrick
GPB  NPR

Tagged as: 

  • National

Migrant Surge At Border Is On Pace To Be The Biggest In Nearly 2 Decades

President Biden is telling migrants "don't come," as a humanitarian crisis grows at the U.S. border with Mexico. The administration is sending most people who cross the border back to Mexico.

March 17, 2021
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By:
  • Angela Kocherga

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

Coronavirus World Map: We've Now Passed The 100 Million Mark For Infections

A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed at least 2 million globally.

March 16, 2021
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By:
  • Daniel Wood,
  • Stephanie Adeline,
  • and 2 more
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva delivers a speech in Geneva last year. A Supreme Court justice on Monday annulled corruption convictions against him, citing a court's lack of jurisdiction.

Tagged as: 

  • Latin America

Brazil Supreme Court Justice Annuls Corruption Conviction Against Former President

The move could pave the way for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to run against an increasingly vulnerable President Jair Bolsonaro in next year's election.

March 09, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
GPB  NPR

Tagged as: 

  • National

Protected Status Extension Applies To More Than 300,000 Venezuelans

The Biden administration's decision to grant temporary protected status to Venezuelans in the U.S. was applauded in South Florida. That region is home to thousands who fled their home country.

March 09, 2021
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By:
  • Greg Allen
A Joe Biden supporter with a Venezuelan flag cheers during a Biden campaign event at Camping World Stadium on October 27, 2020 in Orlando, Florida.

Tagged as: 

  • Politics

Undocumented Venezuelans Given Protected Status In United States

The Biden administration's decision represents a major policy shift from the Trump team, which withstood bipartisan calls to grant the protections to Venezuelans fleeing life-threatening crises.

March 08, 2021
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
A surge in cases and record high daily death tolls have pushed Brazil into a COVID crisis. Above: Health professionals help patients with symptoms of the new coronavirus on a boat ambulance.

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

Brazil In Crisis: 'It Feels Like You Are In Stalingrad, in World War II'

Dr. Miuel Nicolelis, a Duke University neuroscientist originally from Brazil, has been in Sao Paulo for the past year caring for his mother. He says it's like a war zone.

March 05, 2021
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By:
  • Suzette Lohmeyer
Coca plants in the Guaviare department, Colombia. The leaves are the raw ingredient used to make cocaine.

Tagged as: 

  • Opinion

Opinion: To End The Drug War, Help Coca Farmers Find A Way Out

U.S. policy has focused on eradicating the crop used for making cocaine in Colombia. Here's why farmers keep replanting it.

March 05, 2021
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By:
  • Elizabeth Dickinson
GPB  NPR

Tagged as: 

  • Latin America

Sao Paulo Prepares For Lockdown After Record COVID-19 Deaths In Brazil

Brazil is seeing a record number of coronavirus deaths as a new variant overwhelms the health care system. Over 1,900 deaths on Wednesday marked the second day in a row of record deaths.

March 04, 2021
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By:
  • GPB Newsroom
Dr. Raj Panjabi, the newly named head of the President's Malaria Initiative, treating patients during a visit to Liberia, where he was born and lived until 1990. He'll lead the effort to prevent and treat malaria around the world. Each year, some 400,000 people die of a disease that, he notes, is "preventable and treatable."

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

New U.S. Malaria Czar: Why We Should Care About The Disease, Even In A Pandemic

Did you even know the U.S. has a malaria czar? Who himself had malaria as a kid? We interview Dr. Raj Panjabi, newly appointed by President Joe Biden.

March 04, 2021
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By:
  • Marc Silver
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