Latin America

U.S. Plans To Cut Aid To 3 Countries Over Crisis At Southern Border

7:21am April 01, 2019

Rachel Martin talks to Ken Baker, CEO of Glasswing, a non-profit group working in Central America, about U.S. plans to cut aid to nations not doing enough to stop migrants from reaching the border.

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News Brief: Border Crisis, Joe Biden, 2020 Census

5:07am April 01, 2019

The U.S. threatens to withhold aid to countries responsible for migrants trying to cross into the U.S. Former Vice President Biden faces allegations of misconduct. And, the Census begins in a year.

View From Mexico On Trump's Latest Rhetoric

7:43am March 31, 2019

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks José Díaz-Briseño, Washington correspondent for the Mexican newspaper Reforma, how Mexico has been reacting to the latest escalation in rhetoric from President Trump.

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Sen. Bob Menendez On Venezuela

11:18am March 30, 2019

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., about the situation in Venezuela and the end of the Mueller investigation.

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Former Venezuelan special forces official Williams Cancino in a park in the Colombian town of Villa del Rosario, near a hotel where others like him are being sheltered by the Colombian authorities. He says he is waiting for an order to launch a revolution

World News

'Time To Act': Venezuelans Who Fled To Colombia Are Eager To Oust Maduro

11:39pm March 29, 2019

Tensions are building at Colombia's border with Venezuela, where former Venezuelan forces and migrants are taking refuge. Many are eager for a revolution back home.

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World News

Venezuelans Stream Into Colombia

5:10am March 29, 2019

by Ari Shapiro

Latin America is dealing with a refugee crisis larger than anyone in the region has seen before. Thousands of Venezuelans are pouring across the border into Colombia each day.

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Politics & Government

News Brief: Trump Rallies In Michigan, Venezuelans Leave, Brexit

5:10am March 29, 2019

In Michigan, President Trump held his first rally since the end of the Mueller investigation. Also, the latest on Venezuelans fleeing to Colombia and Brexit turmoil.

The sea squirt Ascidia sydneiensis, a tubelike animal that squirts water out of its body when alarmed, is one of 48 additional nonnative marine species in the Galapagos Islands documented in a newly published study. Previously, researchers knew of only fi

Dozens Of Nonnative Marine Species Have Invaded The Galapagos Islands

9:14pm March 28, 2019

by Christopher Joyce

The number of alien species, likely brought by ship traffic, stunned scientists. And they suspect that the foothold of such creatures may have been underestimated in other tropical habitats, too.

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World News

Venezuela Hovers On The Brink Of Conflict — Many Fear The Situation Will Escalate

4:19pm March 28, 2019

Venezuela is already in an economic and political crisis, but many worry that things could escalate into a civil war, a regional conflict, or even U.S. intervention.

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Immigration System Is At 'Breaking Point,' Homeland Security Warns

12:29pm March 28, 2019

Homeland Security officials are saying the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border is at a "breaking point." Central American families are streaming across the southern divide in ever increasing numbers.

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