Latin America

An electoral worker installs an electronic voting machine at a polling station in preparation for the presidential run-off election, in Brasilia, Brazil, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022.

World News

Brazilian voters go to polls to choose between Bolsonaro and Lula in run off

7:12am October 30, 2022

by The Associated Press

Brazilians began voting on Sunday in a polarizing presidential runoff election that pits conservative President Jair Bolsonaro against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Politics & Government

The latest on Brazil's contentious presidential run-off

4:54pm October 29, 2022

by Carrie Kahn

It's the final day before Brazilians go to the polls and according to polling, the gap between President Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva is getting ever closer.

A scene from "Entremeses Cervantinos," three one-act plays written by Miguel de Cervantes, at Plaza San Roque, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Festival Cervantino, Latin America's biggest cultural event, returns with new energy

4:54pm October 29, 2022

by Betto Arcos

After a virtual edition in 2020, and hybrid version last year, the Cervantino International Festival is back in person and celebrating 50 years.

Momos are steamed or fried dumplings stuffed with minced meat or vegetables — a popular dish in Abdul Kareem Bhat's native Tibet. He fled after the failed uprising against China in 1959. Now living in Kashmir, Bhat says that serving the dish at his restaurant not only connects him to his roots but has "brought us closer to our Kashmiri brothers."

Health & Safety

PHOTOS: If you had to leave home and could take only 1 keepsake, what would it be?

9:33am October 29, 2022

by NPR Special Report

We asked refugees around the world to tell us of a memento they brought to connect them to their old life even as they embarked on a new and uncertain future.

The two candidates in Brazil's presidential elections campaign leading up to a runoff election. Left: President Jair Bolsonaro in Guarulhos on Saturday. Right: Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Rio de Janeiro State on Oct. 11.

What to know about Brazil's election as Bolsonaro faces Lula, with major world impacts

5:18pm October 28, 2022

by Carrie Kahn

Brazilians head to the polls Sunday to vote in a presidential election that is testing the world's fourth-largest democracy and could have a critical impact on the fight against climate change.

World News

Indigenous women elected in Sao Paulo are hoping to improve representation

5:10pm October 28, 2022

by Carrie Kahn

Women are underrepresented in Brazil's Congress. But indigenous women recently elected in Sao Paulo are hoping to change that reality.

A woman visits a cemetery as part of the 'Day of the Dead' celebration on November 2, 2020 in Valle de Chalco, Mexico.

Arts

How Halloween is celebrated around the world

4:38pm October 28, 2022

by Giulia Heyward

Here's a look at how the time around Halloween is celebrated in seven countries outside of the United States.

World News

Many people living in Haiti are actively resisting international intervention

4:29pm October 27, 2022

by Eyder Peralta

Haiti may be in crisis, but many people living in the country are actively resisting the idea of international intervention.

Haiti's long and complicated history with international intervention

5:03am October 27, 2022

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to historian Robert Fatton about ill-fated interventions in Haiti, which is now embroiled in a crisis that has the country on the brink of collapse.

Some 19,000 people in Haiti are facing catastrophic levels of hunger

6:59am October 26, 2022

Haiti is now in the sixth week of a fuel blockade by armed gangs in the capital Port-au-Prince. It means that escalating hunger, along with a cholera crisis, is getting more dire by the day.

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