Latin America

FILE - Argentine President Javier Milei addresses supporters during a rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
FILE - Argentine President Javier Milei addresses supporters during a rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

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Argentina’s Milei marks one year in office. Here’s how his shock measures are reshaping the economy

DEC. 10, 2024

A man looks down from a bridge into the Santa Cruz cenote in Homun, Mexico, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A man looks down from a bridge into the Santa Cruz cenote in Homun, Mexico, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Indigenous Mayans want their sacred cenotes to have personhood status

DEC. 9, 2024

A worker wipes equipment at an artisanal popsicle factory in Salcedo, Ecuador, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024, amid a wave of power outages, triggered by a prolonged dry spell. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
A worker wipes equipment at an artisanal popsicle factory in Salcedo, Ecuador, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024, amid a wave of power outages, triggered by a prolonged dry spell. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

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Power shortages in Ecuador are melting away the future of a small town’s ice-cream industry

DEC. 4, 2024

Residents flee their homes to escape gang violence in the Nazon neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Residents flee their homes to escape gang violence in the Nazon neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

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The number of children recruited by gangs in Haiti soars by 70%, UNICEF says

NOV. 25, 2024

Yamandu Orsi
Frente Amplio presidential candidate Yamandu Orsi gets on stage outside of a hotel after general elections polls closed in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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Uruguay, one of Latin America’s strongest democracies, heads to a runoff between two moderates

OCT. 27, 2024

Argentina Liam Payne
A picture of former One Direction singer Liam Payne sits surrounded by flowers and candles as fans gather outside the hotel where he was found dead after falling from a balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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Cooperation across three continents delivers robust report on story of Liam Payne’s death

OCT. 25, 2024

Colombia Biodiversity Conference
Afro-Colombian women perform during the opening ceremony of COP16, a United Nations' biodiversity conference, in Cali, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

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Environmental delegates gather in Colombia for a conference on dwindling global biodiversity

OCT. 23, 2024

AP team reports exclusively on failed river protection program in Colombia

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AP team reports exclusively on failed river protection program in Colombia

OCT. 18, 2024

Mexico El Chapo Lawyer Singer
FILE - Emma Coronel, the wife of Mexican narco Joaquin Guzman, alias El Chapo, is reflected in a mirror wearing a creation from the April Black Diamond Spring Summer 2025 collection in Milan, Italy, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

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AP spots potential in the bizarre launch of a musical career on the back of the legal defense of an infamous drug lord 

OCT. 4, 2024

APTOPIX Mexico Missing Students
Photos of 43 students who have been missing for 10 years cover the stairs at their former Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero state, Mexico, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

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Mexico team captures families’ anguish 10 years after 43 students disappeared; gain all-format access to reclusive teacher’s college

SEPT. 27, 2024

Brazil NFL Football
Men work to prepare the Soccer Neo Química Arena in Sao Paulo, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, as Brazil prepares to host its first ever NFL match on Sept. 6, 2024, between the Green Bay Packers and the Philadelphia Eagles. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Packers and Eagles both wear green, a color disliked by the host of first NFL game in Brazil

SEPT. 13, 2024

Climate Amazon Indigenous Reforestation
An Ashaninka Indigenous man applies face paint during the annual celebration recognizing the Ashaninka territory in the Apiwtxa village, Acre state, Brazil, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

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The Amazon’s Ashaninka tribe restored their territory. Now they aim to change the region

SEPT. 12, 2024

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