Eyder Peralta

In Guatemala, prosecutors move against President-elect Bernardo Arevalo, as the slow motion coup he predicted begins to pick up pace.

In Guatemala, prosecutors move against President-elect Bernardo Arevalo, as the slow motion coup he predicted begins to pick up pace.

In Guatemala, prosecutors move against President-elect Bernardo Arevalo, as the slow motion coup he predicted begins to pick up pace.

Bernardo Arévalo, who won the Guatemalan presidency by a landslide, says what is happening in his country is a "coup in slow motion."

Guatemala's President-elect Bernardo Arevalo claims state actors are behind what he calls a slow motion coup to unseat him from power before he is even inaugurated.

Hurricane Otis has devastated Acapulco, Mexico. The streets are full of desperate people as the government ramps up its response. So far, 48 people are reported dead and 47 are missing.

Otis became the most powerful hurricane to make landfall in Mexico's recorded history. It devastated the resort town of Acapulco, and the government is ramping up its response.

Acapulco is a scene of widespread destruction — two days after being hit by a Category 5 hurricane.

A tropical storm swiftly became a monster hurricane that slammed into the Mexican coastal city of Acapulco, killing more than two dozen people and causing massive damage.

The monster Category 5 hurricane destroyed hotels, home and businesses. Information has been hard to get because most of the metropolitan area is still without phone or internet service.

The famed Mexican resort, Acapulco, took a direct hit from a category 5 hurricane that increased in strength at a speed that surprised forecasters.

Otis slammed into Mexico's southern Pacific coast as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane early Wednesday, bringing 165 mph winds and heavy rain to Acapulco and surrounding towns.

After more than a week of civil disobedience across Guatemala, the capital city came to a standstill Monday as protestors vowed to resist an apparent attempt to overturn the presidential election.

For over a week now, thousands of people in Guatemala have been blockading roads and taking to the streets in protest at attempts to undermine the president-elect's transition to power.

Guatemala is in the grip of a political crisis, as people block highways to protest efforts to undermine the president-elect's transition to power.

The United Nations has approved the deployment of a Kenyan led security mission to Haiti — sparking human rights concerns about deploying a force that has a long record of abuses.

The economic crisis in Cuba is prompting an exodus by thousands, but also giving rise to a greater free market enterprise to begin taking hold on the Communist island.

The Cuban President called on Global South leaders to "change the rules of the game" at the end of the G77+China summit in Havana.

NPR's Eyder Peralta recently visited Nicaragua for the first time in a decade, gaining rare access to a nation that is hostile to journalists and known as the Western Hemisphere's newest dictatorship.

It's not the first time Jaime Maussan has claimed to discover "nonhuman" bodily remains, and scientists have previously dismissed them.