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Byline: Sara Miller Llana Staff writer, Howard LaFranchi Staff writer, Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: 'Roma,' the Academy Award-nominated film, has sparked conversation about underappreciated laborers. But for our Mexico correspondents, [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: Nine months ago, a harsh response to protesters first led to calls for President Daniel Ortega's resignation. As the crisis continues, thousands have fled the [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: Politicians' vows to fight corruption, crime, and impunity are usually crowd-pleasers. But when the campaign runs into real-life complications, what price is the public prepared [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: A president vowing to clean up corruption has changed his tune since he came under scrutiny. Whether the country's other institutions allow investigators to stay [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: For many, daily border crossings are a way of life: Hundreds of thousands of people and a billion-plus dollars in goods legally cross the US-Mexican [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: At the border, volunteers -- asylum-seekers themselves -- manage a list of those waiting to begin a review process by US immigration officials. It's a [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: Leftist leaders have been common in Latin America - except in Mexico, which hasn't had one since 1940. That will change Saturday with Andrés Manuel [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: Violence and repression have made more Central Americans willing to brave the trek north, and the policies that await them. But broadcasting those policies is [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: In the United States and Europe, we sometimes talk about migrants as if they simply woke up and decided to travel to our doorstep. But [...]

Byline: Ciara Long Contributor, Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: Many voters think of their favorite politician as a bit of a hero - someone uniquely capable of fixing things or moving [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: The runoff vote to choose the country's next president is Oct. 28, after one of the most divisive campaign seasons in decades. Congressman Jair Bolsonaro [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: Prisons here are known for overcrowding, violence, and lax oversight. But they're also home to the prisoner-run businesses that provide most of the country's hammocks. [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: Honduras's supreme court has indefinitely delayed the trial for the murder of Berta Cáceres, a renowned environmental rights activist, after her family's lawyers filed a [...]

Byline: Laurent Belsie Staff writer, Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: A widespread concern is that globalization favors big business over worker interests. Leaders in the United States and Mexico say their [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Correspondent, Christine Jenkins Contributor Abstract: Activists leaving their countries to escape intimidation face a dilemma: Do they need to choose between their own safety and making a [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Correspondent, Clara McMichael Contributor Abstract: Latin America could seem a surprising place to debate abortion laws: strongly Catholic, with a growing evangelical population, and increasingly conservative governments. [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: As Venezuela's political and economic crises continue to spiral, refugees are pouring into nearby countries. Several are helping, but struggling to manage the influx amid [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Correspondent Abstract: Lucio Usobiaga is the main person behind the resurgence. His efforts show how an area that has evolved from its beginnings can make a return [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich It's not every day a nation wakes up after a presidential vote and collectively dons the colors of their national flag. In Mexico Monday, that national pride [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich The sun has been beating down on the crowd for nearly 3-1/2 hours before Mexico's three-time presidential candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, takes the stage, calmly talking [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Does the bloodshed in Central America really count as 'gang violence' anymore? That question took on renewed urgency this week, after United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich For years, as neighbors like Honduras and Guatemala experienced political unrest and violence, Nicaragua was a bastion of calm. But in recent weeks, citizen protests and a [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Renas Farid Alahmed is poking around his rundown, shared kitchen on a recent afternoon, trying to plan the first lunch he's ever cooked for guests. 'The kitchen [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Rebeka Rodriguez leans over the car console to help navigate her hand-drawn map of this small, hard-to-reach neighborhood in Adjuntas, a western mountain town. The curving pencil [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich For generations Mexicans have been moving abroad, mostly to the United States, where they've often tried to leave behind the troubled politics of home. 'I never considered [...]

Byline: Sarah Kinosian, Whitney Eulich On a grassy embankment in Managua, dozens of metal crosses with black flags honoring the dead and disappeared stand as a coda to more than [...]

Byline: Augusto Cesar San Martin, Whitney Eulich Reinaldo Flores, an unemployed transit worker in his 50s, walks through the streets of Cerro, one of Havana's poorest neighborhoods. The street is [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich It's 9:15 am on a recent Thursday, and Raul Rosario Ramos' class of second-grade students is practically glued to the blackboard. Mr. Rosario likes to think he [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich, Janet Tappin Coelho Lorena Faria travelled more than 100 miles by bus last week to hunker down with thousands of protesters outside the metalworkers union headquarters in [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Raimundo Espinoza Chirinos leans over the side of a fishing boat and points at a dark blur rising up slowly beneath the choppy water. 'Here he comes. [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich When Catherine lost power after hurricane Maria last September, she feared for her life. For days she and her family spent up to eight hours waiting in [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Mallory Gibson, a music-business major at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC), has spent her junior-year spring break surrounded by sand, surf, and palm trees. But her [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich From the pint-sized toilets to the colorful bedrooms and backyard filled with overturned tricycles, there's no question children live here. What's less obvious is that the 38 [...]

Byline: Peter Ford, Ryan Lenora Brown, Jessica Mendoza, Michael Holtz, Whitney Eulich Women around the world have been finding their voice in recent months, accusing men - generally powerful men [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich When Sandra was arrested for smuggling drugs into a men's prison in 2015, she accepted it as part of the familiar cycle of her life. She'd been [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich When Carmen Guzman Orozco first arrived at the Telebachillerato Comunitario San Andres de Barana as a teaching fellow in 2016, she was taken aback. It wasn't the [...]

Byline: Ryan Lenora Brown, Whitney Eulich Marvin used to have a job. A real job. The kind that came with health insurance and paid days off and lunch breaks. He [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich After weeks of counting and recounting ballots in Honduras' contested presidential election, and deadly clashes between security forces and protesters, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) announced Sunday [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich, Sarah Kinosian When protests first exploded here in the days following Honduras' hotly contested presidential vote, residents like Luis Carlos Hernandez were swept up in the action. [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich, Heather Gies In nearly every presidential election since Honduras's 1980 democratic transition, the new leader was announced just hours after polls closed. This year, five days have [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Erika Rojas shows the tell-tale signs of having seen a tear jerker when she walks out of the movie theater onto bustling Reforma Avenue on a recent [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich When Michelle Bachelet won Chile's presidential election in 2006, she not only became the first woman to hold her country's highest office; she ushered in a wave [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich When Pola Diaz Moffitt walks into the wood-paneled seafood restaurant here on a recent afternoon, everyone on staff pauses to greet her. It's not the typical reception [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich The 9- and 10-year-olds, all wearing matching sweater vests and cardigans, are sitting in a semicircle inside the A Favor del Nino primary school, talking. The subject [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Her little fingers wiggled amid the wreckage, one rescue worker said. She asked for water, and begged to be rescued quickly, a national newspaper reported. Another searcher [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Baruch Garcia stood at an intersection Tuesday afternoon after a deadly earthquake, trying to direct traffic away from a road cutting through La Condesa's lush Parque Mexico. [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Omar Chavira grew up near the rolling foothills of this state capital, coming of age when the US, Mexico, and Canada first signed the North American Free [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich David Omar Chavira Perez's parents always encouraged him to finish school before deciding on his future. But, for a moment, he faltered. Last year, he couldn't see [...]