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Mexican president proposes sweeping reforms increasing pensions, minimum wage

7:52am February 11, 2024

by Debbie Elliott

NPR's Debbie Elliot speaks with Reforma columnist Carlos Bravo Regidor about Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's new constitutional reforms.

The number of Mexican people entering the U.S. as families has grown significantly

6:57pm February 09, 2024

by Danyelle Khmara

There's been a big surge in Mexican families fleeing cartel violence. They don't have refugee status, and fear that a border deal will push them out.

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A justice on Brazil's high court is threatening anticorruption efforts, advocates say

6:22pm February 09, 2024

by Carrie Kahn

Rulings by a Supreme Court justice have drawn criticism and skepticism of Brazil's anticorruption promises. He threw out years of evidence and suspended billions of dollars from corruption cases.

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A former president in Brazil is accused of trying to overturn his election defeat

5:22am February 09, 2024

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro has been implicated in a federal police investigation targeting a "criminal organization involved in the attempted coup" last January.

Politics & Government

Morning news brief

5:22am February 09, 2024

Biden defends how he handled classified docs after scathing special counsel report. Police in Brazil say a former president and his allies planned a coup. Ukraine's president fires his top general.

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Brazil's Bolsonaro must hand in his passport for coup investigation

6:02pm February 08, 2024

by Carrie Kahn

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro has been given 24 hours to hand in his passport. Some of his closest advisors have been targeted in a police investigation into an alleged coup attempt.

Helen Patricia Romero at Casa Arco Iris. She left Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, over a decade ago, fleeing LGBTQ persecution.

For LGBT asylum-seekers, coming to the U.S. is hardly the end of a harrowing journey

5:00am February 08, 2024

by Jasmine Garsd

Gay and trans migrants often faced violence in their home countries. Many face similar persecution from their countrymen in the U.S.

Immigration bill falters as border communities deal with the flood of migrants

7:20am February 07, 2024

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Republican Mayor John Giles of Mesa, Ariz., about the Senate border measure. An initial vote is expected on the plan intended to cut down the number of unlawful crossings.

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A proposed deal in Congress could make asylum harder for LGBTQ migrants to obtain

5:02am February 07, 2024

by Jasmine Garsd

As federal lawmakers consider tougher restrictions for asylum-seekers, we hear from two migrants fleeing homophobic violence.

Sebastián Piñera, former Chilean president, is pictured in Santiago on Nov. 16, 2017. Piñera died on Tuesday in a helicopter crash in Lago Ranco, Chile.

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Former Chilean President Sebastián Piñera dies in a helicopter crash at 74

4:02pm February 06, 2024

by The Associated Press

He served as president from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022. Piñera led the South American nation during devastating natural disasters, including the fallout of an earthquake and a tsunami.