Latin America

In Coco, young Miguel's love of music ultimately leads him to the Land of the Dead where he teams up with charming trickster Hector.

Arts

Mexico, Music And Family Take Center Stage In 'Coco'

5:04am November 20, 2017

by Mandalit del Barco

Pixar's newest movie is meant to be a love letter to Mexico. Coco has an all-Latino cast, it's packed with references to Mexican culture, and it went right to No. 1 at the Mexican box office.

The conning tower of the ARA San Juan submarine shown as the vessel is being delivered to the Argentine Navy after an extensive refit in Buenos Aires, in May 2014.

World News

Bad Weather Hampers Search For Missing Argentine Submarine

4:12am November 20, 2017

by Scott Neuman

The ARA San Juan disappeared last week off the coast of Patagonia. Argentine officials say that they can't confirm that satellite signals received over the weekend came from the sub.

Policemen charge on protesters in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico, in May 2006, in efforts to reestablish order in the city. Two people died and many were abused in the battle that broke out when police attempted to remove peddlers from the city and neighbori

World News

Women Testify Against Mexican Police For Sexual Torture In International Court

3:13am November 19, 2017

by Jose Olivares

In 2006, police sexually abused and beat women following a confrontation between protesters and state forces. Eleven years later, the Women of Atenco have taken the case to an international court.

Music & Culture

At the Latin Grammy Awards: A Night of Big Wins and Tributes

6:36am November 17, 2017

by Felix Contreras

Big wins for the megahit "Despacito" came as no surprise at the 18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards.

Mexican officials seized some 1,800 pounds of marijuana and a bazooka reportedly adapted to launch the drugs into the U.S. in the border town of Agua Prieta on Nov. 9.

World News

Drug-Shooting 'Bazooka' Seized In Mexico As Smugglers Aim Skyward

2:55pm November 14, 2017

by Amy Held

Mexican officials say they seized a bazooka adapted to shoot drugs alongside nearly a ton of marijuana in the town of Agua Prieta on the U.S.-Mexico border.

World News

Former Argentine President Denies Bombing Cover-Up Allegations

8:53am November 14, 2017

by Philip Reeves

Cristina de Kirchner is accused of hiding Iran's role in a 1994 bombing that killed 85. Investigators conclude the prosecutor investigating that attack, who was mysteriously found dead, was murdered.

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World News

U.N. Peacekeepers Withdraw From Haiti, After 13 Years There

9:16am November 13, 2017

by Carrie Kahn

Brought in to restore peace and stabilize the western hemisphere's poorest nation, the U.N. force, which at its height had more than 7,000 troops, has left a mixed and sometimes deadly legacy.

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Members of Handicap International's de-mining team in Colombia debate how best to destroy an improvised explosive device that they unearthed.

Digging Up Land Mines: 'If You Say You're Not Afraid, You're Lying'

8:57am November 12, 2017

by Jason Beaubien

Colombia is one of the world's most heavily mined countries. Now that the rebels and the government have reached a peace deal, the slow process of de-mining is underway.

Julio Calderon, 28, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras, listens after speaking in favor of renewing Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Central America and Haiti now living in the United States, during a news conference Monday, Nov. 6, 201

Central American Immigrants Brace For End Of Temporary Protected Status Program

3:33pm November 10, 2017

by Samantha Raphelson

The Department of Homeland Security revoked protections for 2,500 Nicaraguans living in the U.S. this week, while 50,000 Haitians and nearly 200,000 Salvadorans remain uncertain about their status.

S. Fitzgerald Haney, former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, with his wife, Andrea, on that country's Dancing with the Stars. He is donating his stipend to a local cancer institute.

Former U.S. Ambassador To Costa Rica Dances With The Stars

10:03am November 10, 2017

by Carrie Kahn

When the U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica was asked what he would do after Trump asked for his resignation, he joked that maybe he would go on Dancing with the Stars. That's just where he has landed.

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