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A a man pedals carrying a girl during a scheduled power outage in Bauta, Cuba, Monday, March 18. The island is facing an energy crisis, with waves of blackouts worsening in recent weeks. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption

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Protests in Cuba; Results of the World Happiness Report

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A woman and a boy attempt to hitch a ride during a scheduled power outage in Bauta, Cuba, Monday. The island is facing an energy crisis, with waves of blackouts worsening in recent weeks. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption

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Protesters in Cuba demand food and electricity as shortages bring hardship

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Rahima Banu had the last recorded case of naturally occurring variola major smallpox, a deadly strain of the virus, in 1975. At left: Banu in her mother's arms as a small child. At right: Banu today, close to 50 years old, lives in a small village in Bangladesh with her husband, Rafiqul Islam, and their children. Michael Schwartz/CDC, Céline Gounder/KFF Health News hide caption

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"My participation in the march as an Amazonian woman is to praise our rights and violence worldwide." Portrait of Josefina Tunki, the ex-Executive President of the Government Council of the Shuar Arutam People in Puyo, Ecuador, March 8, 2024. Tatiana Lopez for NPR hide caption

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Retrato de Josefina Tunki, ex-presidenta ejecutiva del Consejo de Gobierno del Pueblo Shuar Arutam. "Mi participación en la marcha como mujer amazónica es para enaltecer nuestros derechos, violencias a nivel mundial", lee el texto escrito por Tunki. Tatiana Lopez por NPR hide caption

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Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, was largely shut down March 4, with residents venturing out only for essentials, AFP reporters witnessed, as authorities imposed a state of emergency after an attack on a prison freed thousands of inmates. Clarens Siffroy/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Armed members of the G9 and Family gang stand guard at their roadblock in the Delmas 6 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday. Odelyn Joseph/AP hide caption

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A glimpse of the chaos in Haiti, a country reeling with effectively no leader

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People take part in a rally in support of Colombian President Gustavo Petro in Medellín, Colombia, on Feb. 8. Jaime Saldarriaga/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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It's not easy being Colombia's 1st left-wing president

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Spectators wait for the start of a bullfight at the Plaza México, in Mexico City, Jan. 28. Bullfighting returned to Mexico City after the Supreme Court of Justice overturned a 2022 ban that prevented these events from taking place in the capital. Fernando Llano/AP hide caption

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Mexico's female matadors return to the world's largest bullring

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Syrian medics launched a vaccination campaign in the northwestern Idlib province in early 2023. Such campaigns depend on the global cholera vaccine stockpile, which is currently empty. Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández is escorted by Honduran police to be extradited to the United States to face charges related to drug traffickers, on April 21, 2022, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Jorge Cabrera/Getty Images hide caption

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Sandra Martínez Martínez shows the dirty tap water she and her family are using as toilet water at her home in the municipality of Ecatepec, in the State of Mexico, on Sunday. Toya Sarno Jordan for NPR hide caption

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Mexico City's long-running water problems are getting even worse

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A pedestrian walks past the international airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday. Gang members exchanged gunfire with police and soldiers around the airport in the latest of a series of attacks on government sites. Odelyn Joseph/AP hide caption

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Haiti's prime minister is stranded abroad as gangs threaten 'civil war'

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Gabriel García Márquez greets journalists and neighbors on his birthday outside his house in Mexico City on March 6, 2014. Edgard Garrido/Reuters hide caption

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Gabriel García Márquez's last novel is published against his wishes

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A view of the destruction caused by demonstrators outside the presidential palace in Mexico City on Wednesday, during a protest over the disappearance of the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa teaching training school in 2014. The group of demonstrators knocked down one of the doors of building with a pickup truck. Ivan Castaneira/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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A demonstrator holds up a Haitian flag during protests demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday. Odelyn Joseph/AP hide caption

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3 things to know about the current crisis in Haiti

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A patient is transferred to a hospital after receiving medical care at an improvised military aid station set up to treat suspected cases of dengue fever in the administrative region of Ceilandia, on the outskirts of Brasilia, on February 6, 2024. Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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At a one-day workshop run by the Care School for Men in Bogotá, Colombia, male medical students at Sanitas University learn how to cradle a baby. This class of participants consists of medical students, but the usual enrollees are dads of all types. Ben de la Cruz/NPR hide caption

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