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More Talks With Cuba Are Needed To Repair Broken Relations

8:14am January 23, 2015

by Carrie Kahn

Two days of historic talks in Havana between U.S. and Cuban diplomats ended with both sides expressing the will to continue to talk. Major obstacles still exist in the effort to normalize relations.

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Prosecutor's Mysterious Death Grips Argentina

6:28pm January 22, 2015

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez says she believes Alberto Nisman, a prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center, was murdered.

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A gold-mining barge docks along the Madre de Dios river.

Going For The Gold Sends Mercury Down The River

3:23pm January 22, 2015

by Jason Beaubien

Illegal mining in the headwaters of the Amazon is endangering people and fish hundreds of miles downstream.

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Historic Diplomatic Talks Begin In Cuba

7:00pm January 21, 2015

by Carrie Kahn

The most high-level U.S. delegation to visit Cuba in 35 years is in Havana for two days of talks. The meetings follow the historic thaw in relations announced simultaneously last month by President Obama and President Raul Castro. The focus of the talks will be migration and the nuts and bolts of restoring diplomatic ties.

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U.S.-Cuban Officials Meet In Cuba To Re-Establish Relations

3:18pm January 21, 2015

by Carrie Kahn

Diplomats are in Cuba this week for talks with high-level representatives from the communist government. The talks, which begin Wednesday, are the first official discussions in decades.

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Political Turmoil Threatens To Derail Haiti's Delicate Recovery

11:25am January 21, 2015

by Carrie Kahn

Haiti's President Martelly has formed a new government that he rules by decree. He's appointed some new ministers and a prime minister but hasn't said when new elections will happen. The U.S. has pledged it's backing of Martelly, but many are worried that the continuing political turmoil is hurting reconstruction efforts.

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Thaw Begins On U.S.-Cuba Relationship Frozen In Time

11:25am January 21, 2015

by Michele Kelemen

U.S.-Cuba talks start Wednesday to revive a relationship that has been frozen in time. Cuba policy is likely to feature prominently in President's Obama's State of the Union address.

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A man carries a bag with coca leaves in December 2013 in a rural area of Corinto, department of Cauca, Colombia. The Colombian government and the FARC are attempting address the issue of "illicit cultivation" as the third point of their ongoing peace talk

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Colombia's Coca Farmers Face Uncertain Future As FARC Negotiates Peace

7:39pm January 20, 2015

As part of talks, the leftist revolutionary group is offering to help end Colombia's cocaine trade, but previous attempts to encourage coca farmers to grow something else have been disastrous.

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How One Family Controls Latin America's Legal Abortions

8:28pm January 19, 2015

One family is at the center of Colombia's first legal abortion clinic. NPR's Arun Rath talks to Joshua Lang about his feature story on the family in California Sunday magazine.

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On Eve Of Bombshell Testimony, Argentinian Prosecutor Found Dead

7:32pm January 19, 2015

Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor investigating Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, has been found dead. He'd accused Kirchner of covering up Iran's involvement in a 1994 bombing.

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