Eyder Peralta

Eyder Peralta appears in the following:

Politics took center stage at a gathering of 77 developing nations in Cuba

Sunday, September 17, 2023

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.

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I returned to Nicaragua, where I was born, and found a country steeped in fear

Thursday, September 14, 2023

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.

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A ufologist claims to show 2 alien corpses to Mexico's Congress

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

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

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A rare, exclusive glimpse inside the authoritarian nation of Nicaragua

Monday, September 11, 2023

Over the past decade, Nicaragua has become one of the most authoritarian countries in the Western Hemisphere. And for more than a year now, the country has also kept foreign journalists out.

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A rare chance to look into Nicaragua, a country that shuts itself off to journalists

Monday, September 11, 2023

For more than a year, Nicaragua has kept foreign journalists out. NPR's Eyder Peralta managed to get in, and he brings us some exclusive on-the-ground reporting.

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A rare look into Nicaragua, a country that shuts itself off to journalists

Sunday, September 10, 2023

We take a look inside Nicaragua — a country where repression is the norm, making it one of the hardest countries to report from.

Content advisory: The piece includes the sounds of fireworks.

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Mexico is set to make history by electing its first female president

Thursday, September 07, 2023

Mexico is on course to make history by electing its first female head of state in next year's elections — likely shattering a glass ceiling in a notoriously patriarchal society.

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Mexico is on course to elect its first woman president

Thursday, September 07, 2023

Mexico's two main political groups have chosen women presidential candidates. Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum and Sen. Xóchitl Gálvez will face each other in next year's election.

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Cuba says it dismantled human trafficking ring recruiting for Russia's war in Ukraine

Tuesday, September 05, 2023

Havana says it is dismantling a network that seeks to recruit Cubans as mercenaries to fight in Russia's war against Ukraine.

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Guatemala astonishing victory of an anti-corruption presidential candidate

Monday, August 21, 2023

In Guatemala, an anti-corruption campaigner has swept to an astonishing victory in the presidential elections there, but will the ruling elite honor Bernardo Arevalo's landslide result?

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Anti-corruption candidate wins Guatemala's presidency in a landslide vote

Monday, August 21, 2023

A reformist candidate has beaten the odds and will become president-elect. With nearly 100% of the vote counted, Bernardo Arévalo leads with more than 20 percentage votes.

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Guatemala's anti-corruption candidate wins presidency in a landslide vote

Monday, August 21, 2023

In Guatemala, an anti-corruption candidate wins the runoff election by a landslide, in a vote that was a critical test of the Central American country's democratic credentials.

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Guatemala's presidential elections will be a test for its fragile democracy

Sunday, August 20, 2023

In Guatemala's elections Sunday, an establishment candidate is facing off against a challenger who's promising to fight corruption.

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High stakes elections lie ahead in Guatemala, Ecuador and Argentina

Friday, August 18, 2023

Latin American democracies face tests this weekend with elections in Guatemala and Ecuador — and as a far-right candidate starts getting traction for a run for Argentina's presidency this fall.

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The runoff presidential election in Guatemala will be held this weekend

Thursday, August 17, 2023

Guatemalans vote in an election that could determine whether the country addresses long-running impunity for its elites or continues its descent into corruption and violence.

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A leader of Guatemala's reformist party on the country's upcoming elections

Sunday, August 06, 2023

NPR's Eyder Peralta speaks with Guatemalan Congressman Samuel Perez Alvarez, a member of a reformist party whose candidate made it into the second round of presidential elections this year.

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The mysterious story of Connie Converse, the singer-songwriter who vanished

Sunday, August 06, 2023

The artist quit music in the early '60s, then later disappeared so completely even her family didn't know where she'd gone. Now, an album of her songs — as she wanted them heard — is coming out.

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Meet the Guatemalan judge fighting for democracy at a critical moment for the country

Sunday, August 06, 2023

The current struggles of a judge who ruled in a historic case show the decline of Guatemala's democracy.

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The Smithsonian cancelled an Asian American Literature Festival. The organizers kept it going

Sunday, August 06, 2023

NPR's Eyder Peralta talks with Regie Cabico, co-organizer of this year's Asian American Literature Festival that's holding events in Washington, D.C., after the Smithsonian cancelled a larger event.

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Jimin Han on her novel 'The Apology'

Sunday, August 06, 2023

A South Korean woman keeps family secrets for her whole life, but she can't keep them in the afterlife. NPR's Eyder Peralta talks with Jimin Han about her novel, "The Apology."

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