Latin America

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega celebrates with first lady Rosario Murillo a day before his re-inauguration in 2012.

World News

With Savvy And New-Age Speeches, A First Couple Runs Nicaragua

3:21pm September 28, 2014

by Carrie Kahn

Daniel Ortega is not the bombastic revolutionary of years past. He's toned down the rhetoric and his wife runs day-to-day operations. Critics say it's not unlike the regime he toppled 30 years ago.

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Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, the Vatican's ambassador to the Dominican Republic, offers Mass in Santo Domingo in 2009. He has been accused of paying for sex with children while he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic.

Vatican Arrests Defrocked Archbishop On Sex Charges

3:49pm September 24, 2014

by Scott Neuman

Former Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, who was defrocked earlier this year, has been accused of paying for sex with children while he was papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic.

Vatican Arrests Former Archbishop On Child Abuse Charges

1:31pm September 24, 2014

Jozef Wesolowski is the first high-ranking Vatican official to face criminal charges for sexually abusing children. Steve Inskeep talks to Joshua McElwee of the National Catholic Reporter.

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In the markets of San Salvador, El Salvador, you can have your palm read, you can buy plumbing tools ... and you can purchase abortion pills.

Even When Abortion Is Illegal, The Market May Sell Pills For Abortion

9:22am September 24, 2014

by Jason Beaubien

An ulcer drug is dramatically changing the face of back-alley abortions in developing countries and cutting the rate of maternal deaths. Misoprostol is widely available even where abortion is banned.

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Christina Quintanilla looks out at the lake near her hometown of San Miguel in eastern El Salvador.

Why A Teenage Mom Was Jailed In El Salvador After A Stillbirth

11:23am September 23, 2014

by Jason Beaubien

Christina Quintanilla faced up to 50 years in prison after an anonymous hospital worker accused her of having an abortion.

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The photographer Sebastiao Salgado, in New York City on Thursday, says we are at a "special moment" — our world now needs to be protected from climate change and other forces.

His Camera Takes Us To The World 'We Must Preserve'

3:36pm September 19, 2014

by Rena Silverman

In the new exhibit "Genesis," the noted photographer Sebastiao Salgado shares his vision of "a kind of state of humanity of the planet," from Amazon tribes to frozen Siberia.

Illegal Loggers Suspected In Death Of Peruvian Activist

9:47am September 19, 2014

Geographer David Salisbury talks about his friend Edwin Chota, a Peruvian activist who advocated that land being illegally logged should be given to indigenous groups. Chota was murdered on Sept. 1.

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Lori Baker with her husband, Erich. Baker is founder and executive director of the International Consortium for Forensic Identification, Reuniting Families Project.

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Scientist IDs Bodies Of Migrants, Helping Families Find Closure

9:28am September 19, 2014

by NPR Staff

Lori Baker uses DNA samples to track down the loved ones of immigrants who died on their journeys. "I would love not to do this anymore, but I don't think I have it in me not to," she says.

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Cuy, or guinea pig, one of the traditional dishes from the Andes.

World News

Mistura Food Fest Gives Peruvian Cuisine A Chance To Shine

2:08pm September 17, 2014

by Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato

Every September, top chefs from around the world gather to celebrate the diversity of Peruvian cuisine. But not everyone is convinced the food boom is the answer to the country's historic challenges.

Cars sit in a flooded street in San Jose del Cabo Monday, after Hurricane Odile knocked down trees and power lines in Mexico's Baja California peninsula.

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Odile Leaves Wreckage In Mexico And Threatens Flooding In U.S.

7:48pm September 16, 2014

by Bill Chappell

Hurricane Odile is now a tropical storm, but it has heavy rainfall and power outages to the Baja Peninsula and surrounding areas. It could also bring new flooding to Tucson and nearby areas.