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News Articles: Latin America

Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda sits in Paris in October 1971.

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  • Latin America

Death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda should be reinvestigated, court rules

The death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda days after Chile's 1973 military coup should be reinvestigated, an appeals court has ruled, saying new steps could help clarify what killed the poet.

February 21, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
People take parte in a march organized by citizen organizations demanding that electoral autonomy be respected in the upcoming general elections in downtown Mexico City, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024.

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  • Latin America

Thousands rail against Mexico's president and ruling party in 'march for democracy'

Thousands of demonstrators cloaked in pink marched through cities in Mexico and abroad on Sunday in what they called a "march for democracy" targeting the country's ruling party.

February 18, 2024
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By:
  • GPB Newsroom
Joyce Cecília, 27, member of the Brilhetes all-women bate-bola crew after the group's first carnival outing in Anchieta, Rio de Janeiro on February 09, 2023.

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  • Latin America

Women are breaking Brazil's 'bate-bola' Carnival mold

Women are taking their rightful place in Rio's "Carnival of the streets" — the "bate-bolas," translated literally, as ball beaters.

February 16, 2024
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn and
  • María Magdalena Arréllaga
Palestinians look at their neighbor's damaged house following an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024.

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  • Politics

NATO leader criticizes Trump's comments. Israel frees two hostages in Rafah operation

NATO chief criticizes Trump after he threatened to abandon NATO allies. Israel's military says it rescued 2 hostages in Gaza.

February 12, 2024
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By:
  • Majd Al-Waheidi
Helen Patricia Romero at Casa Arco Iris. She left Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, over a decade ago, fleeing LGBTQ persecution.

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  • National

For LGBT asylum-seekers, coming to the U.S. is hardly the end of a harrowing journey

Gay and trans migrants often faced violence in their home countries. Many face similar persecution from their countrymen in the U.S.

February 08, 2024
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By:
  • Jasmine Garsd
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro gestures as he speaks on Dec. 3.

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  • World

Venezuela's leftist leader Maduro makes a play for evangelical voters

Evangelical Christians are often courted by right-wing politicians. But in Venezuela, left-wing President Nicolás Maduro is trying to secure the church's support in the run-up to elections.

February 07, 2024
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By:
  • John Otis
Sebastián Piñera, former Chilean president, is pictured in Santiago on Nov. 16, 2017. Piñera died on Tuesday in a helicopter crash in Lago Ranco, Chile.

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  • Latin America

Former Chilean President Sebastián Piñera dies in a helicopter crash at 74

He served as president from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022. Piñera led the South American nation during devastating natural disasters, including the fallout of an earthquake and a tsunami.

February 06, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
A 16-year-old boy who was captured and claimed to have been beaten by members of El Salvador's naval force in November 2022 in Usulután, a small town in eastern El Salvador.

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  • Latin America

Portraits from El Salvador's nearly 2-year, sprawling crackdown on gang suspects

Salvadoran photographer Carlos Barrera takes a look at the nearly two years of human rights violations allegedly committed by the government of El Salvador during the country's state of emergency.

February 06, 2024
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  • Carlos Barrera
President Nayib Bukele speaks on Nov. 20, 2023, in La Libertad, El Salvador. Bukele was reelected in a landslide.

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  • Latin America

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's popular but authoritarian president, declares election win

President Bukele was widely expected to be reelected in a landslide. He has cracked down on gangs but also has taken steps to consolidate his power and eliminate opposition.

February 04, 2024
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By:
  • James Doubek
The sun sets as smoke fills the sky caused by the forest fire encroaching on Vina del Mar, Chile, on Saturday. Officials say intense forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have left dozens of people dead and destroyed hundreds of homes.

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  • Latin America

Forest fires raging in central Chile have killed at least 99 people

The fires have been burning with the highest intensity around the city of Viña del Mar, where a famous botanical garden founded in 1931 was destroyed by the flames on Sunday.

February 04, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Banner with the face of President Nayib Bukele on the roof of the pupusas restaurant of Arnulfo Crisostomo Mazariego in San Salvador on Jan. 29.

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  • Latin America

Why the 'world's coolest dictator' is on course for a landslide win in El Salvador

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele has won plaudits both at home and abroad for his indiscriminate security crackdown that has seen more than 1% of the country's population put in prison.

February 02, 2024
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By:
  • Emily Green
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies on Capitol Hill in November 2023.

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  • Politics

House GOP releases impeachment articles in bid to oust Homeland Security's Mayorkas

Republicans contend Mayorkas' "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" on immigration amounts to "high crimes and misdemeanors" for failing to manage the U.S.-Mexico border.

January 28, 2024
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By:
  • NPR Washington Desk
Migrants walk towards a Border Patrol agent in the town of Jacumba. Those crossing the border are often being instructed by cartels to turn themselves over to agents, in order to receive asylum.

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  • National

A California community sees a dip in immigration. Where have all the people gone?

The town of Jacumba, on the California-Mexico border, has experienced a massive influx of migrants. Unofficial detention camps have popped up throughout the community. Then one day, something changed.

January 27, 2024
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By:
  • Jasmine Garsd
A police officer inspects a public transportation vehicle at a checkpoint in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024.

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  • Latin America

Haitians are desperate after Kenyan court blocks police force deployment

Uncertainty have been spreading since Friday's ruling, blocking the deployment of a U.N.-backed police force, with violence reaching new records as gangs tighten their grip on Haiti's capital.

January 27, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Is the series of snowy storms in North America making you a little ... um ... squirrely? Well imagine if this was the first time you ever saw snow in your life! We reached out to people in the Global South and other parts to share their stories of the first time they saw snow.

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  • Global Health

In between shoveling, we asked folks from hot spots about their first time seeing snow

If snow has lost its charms for you, consider what it's like to experience it for the first time. People from the Global South and other snowless places share what it was like to discover snow.

January 20, 2024
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By:
  • Gabriel Spitzer
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