Yroné Camelia Araujo Barreto, a 50-year-old Venezuelan migrant living in Quito, Ecuador, at the dining room table. She is eating a traditional Venezuelan dish of cachapa, round dough made from corn, filled with pork. She typically eats two meals a day if she's lucky enough to afford it. Yolanda Escobar Jimenez for NPR hide caption
A little girl and her baby brother were taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents this week after they were discovered abandoned along the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. Border Patrol hide caption
The chile en nogada — a stuffed poblano pepper covered in a walnut sauce — has become a classic Mexican dish. The version plated here comes from Ricardo Muñoz Zurita's Azul Condesa restaurant in Mexico City. Omar Torres/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
In this Sept. 1992 file photo, Abimael Guzmán, the founder and leader of the Shining Path guerrilla movement, shouts inside of a jail cell after being captured in Lima, Peru. The Peruvian government reported Saturday that Guzman died after an illness. AP hide caption
Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramirez in 2017 upon receiving the Cervantes Prize literary award. Prosecutors have ordered Ramirez' arrest along with other opponents of President Daniel Ortega. Alfredo Zuniga/AP hide caption
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook Acapulco, Mexico, on Wednesday. After the quake, Mexicans shared videos of bursts of blue lights streaking across the sky. Raul Aguirre/Getty Images hide caption
This video shows startled occupants of an apartment rush to steady themselves. Storyful hide caption
A couple walks past a taxi cab that was damaged by falling debris after a strong earthquake in Acapulco, Mexico, on Tuesday. The quake struck southern Mexico near the resort of Acapulco, causing buildings to rock and sway in Mexico City nearly 200 miles away. Bernardino Hernandez/AP hide caption
Activists supporting the decriminalization of abortion in Mexico march in Guadalajara, Mexico, on September 28, 2019. Mexico's Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion. Ulises Ruiz/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gather on Copacabana Beach on Independence Day in Rio de Janeiro. Bruna Prado/AP hide caption
A pedestrian takes a photo of graffiti on a temporary metal barrier set up to protect the perimeter of the Christopher Columbus's statue which was removed last year by authorities on Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Sunday that the statue will be replaced by a statue honoring Indigenous women. Fernando Llano/AP hide caption
The Rev. Calixte Dorval in the remains of the Mission Evangélique Baptiste du Sud d'Haiti Picot in Marceline, Haiti, which was destroyed in the 7.2 magnitude earthquake. Octavio Jones for NPR hide caption
Journalist and activist Gildo Garza, right, reads the names of murdered journalists at a demonstration outside the federal attorney general's office in Mexico City. Courtesy Gildo Garza hide caption
Rev. Jean Eddy Desravines, 61, of Sainte-Agnes Catholic Church near Les Cayes, Haiti, celebrates Mass on Sunday. The church sanctuary was destroyed in the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck earlier this month. Octavio Jones for NPR hide caption
Dr. Antoine Titus talks to a walk-up patient at Immaculée Conception Hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti, where he was made chief physician the day of the 7.2 magnitude earthquake. Octavio Jones for NPR hide caption
"Mestizo Man," Nahua artisan Zeferino Baltasar Basilio, San Francisco Ozomatlán, Guerrero, Mexico. Toya Sarno Jordan for NPR hide caption
Samantha Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, speaks during a joint press conference with Haitian officials at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port-Au-Prince on Thursday. Octavio Jones for NPR hide caption
Families wait to receive humanitarian aid from a U.S. Army helicopter unit in the town of Anse-A-Veau, Haiti, on Wednesday. Octavio Jones for NPR hide caption
Claudio Rojas, a 55-year-old handyman who was deported from the U.S. in 2019, poses for a photo in his home in Moreno, Argentina, on May 8. His wife, two sons and two grandsons remained in Florida. Natacha Pisarenko/AP hide caption
People injured in a car accident, sitting right, wait with others injured during the earthquake for x-rays at the General Hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti, on Wednesday. Fernando Llano/AP hide caption
Injured people lie in beds outside the Immaculée Conception hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021, two days after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern part of the country. Fernando Llano/AP hide caption
A man digs with a stone through the rubble of a house destroyed by the earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, on Sunday. Joseph Odelyn/AP hide caption