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Mexico Ups Southern Border Security To Keep Out Migrant Caravan

10:36am October 19, 2018

by James Fredrick

Mexican riot police are guarding the southern border with Guatemala to prevent Honduran migrants from crossing en masse into Mexico. It's the latest caravan trying to make it to the U.S.

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Irakere Picon, 29, and Arianna Hermosillo, 30, on their wedding day earlier this year in Oak Park Conservatory in Chicago.

When Immigration Status Puts Couple's Life 'At Pause'

4:49am October 19, 2018

On their first date, Irakere Picon told Arianna Hermosillo that he was undocumented. He works as an immigration lawyer, and the couple, now married, face anxieties related to his status.

Honduran migrants walk toward Tecún Umán, a Guatemalan town along the Mexican border, as they leave Guatemala City on Thursday.

As Caravan Of Migrants Heads North, Trump Threatens To Close Southern U.S. Border

10:21pm October 18, 2018

Hundreds of people have arrived at a Guatemalan town just across the border from Mexico. It's uncertain how Trump would block the group from crossing at a legal port of entry.

Roger Waters, performing in Moscow in August, 2018. The artist recently drew attention in Brazil over his criticism of the right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro.

Ahead Of Presidential Election, Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Divides Brazil

4:11pm October 18, 2018

by Philip Reeves

Amid rising political tensions, veteran rocker Roger Waters is using his tour to urge Brazilians not to vote for the far-right presidential candidate — prompting confrontations between fans.

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Employees work on the assembly line of the Tiguan model at the Volkswagen car plant in Puebla, central Mexico, in March. The auto sector is a key focus of the newly revised North American Free Trade Agreement.

Will NAFTA 2.0 Really Boost Mexican Wages?

1:43pm October 17, 2018

by Carrie Kahn

The new trade deal signed by the U.S., Mexico and Canada says much of a car should be built by workers making at least $16 an hour. Some experts are skeptical that will happen anytime soon in Mexico.

Extending gloved hands skyward in racial protest, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos stare downward during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City on Oct. 16, 1968.

Those Raised Fists Still Resonate, 50 Years Later

4:55pm October 16, 2018

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Olympic sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos won gold and bronze at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Their raised-fist salute outraged many viewers — and still resonates today.

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Leaves infected with coffee rust on Finca El Valle, outside Antigua, Guatemala.

Coffee Rust Threatens Latin American Crop; 150 Years Ago, It Wiped Out An Empire

11:39am October 16, 2018

by Jeff Koehler

The fungus, which has no cure, is destroying harvests in Latin America. In the 1800s, it devastated Sri Lanka's powerhouse coffee industry. And scientists say it's only a question of time.

Chilean demonstrators light candles during an August vigil in Santiago that protested the sex abuse scandal roiling the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis Defrocks 2 Chilean Priests In Deepening Sex Abuse Scandal

4:45pm October 13, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The two high-ranking retired clerics, Archbishop Francisco José Cox Huneeus and Bishop Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández, were expelled from the priesthood because of alleged "manifest abuse of minors."

Panamanian Foreign Minister Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi toast after signing a joint statement on establishing diplomatic relations in June 2017 in Beijing.

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China Lures Taiwan's Latin American Allies

2:06pm October 13, 2018

by Carrie Kahn

The biggest bloc of Taiwan's few remaining world allies is in Central America and the Caribbean. But even that solidarity is splintering.

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Archbishop Óscar Romero stands outside the chapel of the Hospital de la Divina Providencia in San Salvador on Nov. 20, 1979.

A 'Voice For The Voiceless': Sainthood For El Salvador's Archbishop Óscar Romero

11:30am October 12, 2018

by Danny Hajek

Romero was an outspoken champion of the poor who pleaded for social justice during a time of widespread violence. On Sunday, Romero will be canonized as a saint at the Vatican.

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