Marcela Hernández, director of the Alma Llanera Academy, in 2022. "I admire my mom because, since she was a little girl, she has been alone and went to dance classes, she studied, graduated, studied journalism and now she has gone to several countries, many people know her and admire her very much," her daughter, Mariangel Tumay, said about about her. Juanita Escobar hide caption
Latin America
U.S. President Joe Biden, second from right, meets with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, second from left, in the Oval Office of the White House on Nov. 18, 2021. Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. adviser tries to talk Mexican president out of skipping Summit of the Americas
Protesters carry images of disappeared people on Mother's Day during an annual march by the mothers of missing people to demand the Mexican government step up efforts to locate the missing and prevent further disappearances, in Mexico City, May 10. Eduardo Verdugo/AP hide caption
Mexico's official list of missing people passes 100,000, with few cases ever solved
Holding a sign reading "No negotiation with terrorists," Cuba supporters protest in Miami ahead of bilateral talks between the U.S. and Cuba in Washington in April. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Argentine soldiers landing from a Sea King helicopter not far from Port Stanley, the capitol of the Falkland Islands (las Islas Malvinas). SeM/Universal Images Group via Getty hide caption
Colombian cowboys are known as llaneros, Spanish for plainsmen. Carlos Saavedra hide caption
South America's traditional cowboys are still at home on the range in Colombia
Paraguay Attorney General Sandra Quiñonez prays to a Virgin Mary statue at the entrance of her office in Asuncion, Paraguay, after she found out about the killing of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci on Tuesday. Jorge Saenz/AP hide caption
President Joe Biden speaks at the virtual Global COVID-19 Summit on Sept. 22, 2021, in Washington, D.C. On May 12, the White House will host the second Global COVID-19 Summit. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Demonstrators who support abortion rights celebrate outside the Constitutional Court in Bogota, Colombia on February 21. After an 8-hour debate, the court decriminalized abortions during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. Chepa Beltran/Long Visual Press/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption
Colombia legalized abortions for the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. A backlash ensued
A rescue worker walks away from the destroyed five-star Hotel Saratoga on Tuesday after searching through the rubble days after a deadly explosion in Old Havana, Cuba. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption
Soldiers patrol outside Bellavista prison where a deadly riot broke out overnight in Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, Ecuador, on Monday. Dolores Ochoa/AP hide caption
Journalists protest to draw attention to the latest wave of journalist killings, at the Angel of Independence monument in Mexico City, May 9, 2022. Marco Ugarte/AP hide caption
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Rescuers recover a body at the site of Friday's deadly explosion that destroyed the five-star Hotel Saratoga, in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, May 7, 2022. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption
A member of a rescue team searches for survivors at the site of a deadly explosion at the Hotel Saratoga, in Havana, on Friday. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption
An abortion-rights activist wears a mask with text that reads in Spanish "Legal Abortion" during a rally outside Congress as lawmakers debate a bill that would legalize abortion, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. Natacha Pisarenko/AP hide caption
What do you call a flower that flits from bird to bird? Which birds dictate the order of the flock while it flies? Copyright @ 2022 by Paloma Valdivia; used with permission by Enchanted Lion Books hide caption
British Virgin Islands Premier Andrew Fahie, the nation's top government official, was arrested Thursday in Miami on a conspiracy to import cocaine, according to a U.S. criminal complaint. Government of the British Virgin Islands hide caption
Colombian presidential candidate Gustavo Petro speaks during a campaign rally in Medellín, Colombia, on April 7. Petro is polling first ahead of the May 29 election. Edinson Ivan Arroyo Mora/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
He's running to be Colombia's 1st left-wing president. Here's what he plans to do
A man uses cooking oil to fry Mandazi, a type of fried bread, on a street in the low-income Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Khalil Senosi/AP hide caption
Candles and flowers surround an image of Debanhi Escobar during a protest over her disappearance and other similar cases at the Attorney General's office in Mexico City on Friday. Eduardo Verdugo/AP hide caption
Masks are just one protective measure for these airline passengers arriving in Shanghai from Paris. Hector Retamal /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, center, is taken in handcuffs to a waiting aircraft in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Thursday as he is extradited to the United States. Elmer Martinez/AP hide caption