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The vaccine will be available at low cost in 120 poor countries. But nearly all of Latin America was excluded from a deal with the drug's manufacturer, Gilead.

With the Florida Supreme Court upholding the state’s restrictive abortion ban, patients may soon head to Latin America, where several countries have legalized the procedure, a reproductive health expert says.

Due to limited resources, delayed startups, chronic shortages — and official scandals — only a fraction of Latin America and the Caribbean has been inoculated.

Controversial coronavirus deaths like Carlos Henríquez's in El Salvador leave Latin American relatives in the U.S. feeling increasingly helpless.

Cuba believes it has managed COVID-19 well enough to re-open the island this week to one of its most important economic sectors: tourism. But you won’t...

COMMENTARY We know one likely reason Brazil’s coronavirus emergency is in full meltdown. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro calls the pandemic a “media...

Cuba has officially registered fewer than 1700 COVID-19 cases. But new data released by one of the island’s most respected institutes suggests the...

Ecuador's new health minister, Dr. Juan Carlos Zevallos, talks with WLRN's Latin America Report about the "horrifying" experience of trying to get his...

No country in Latin America and the Caribbean has been hit as hard by the new coronavirus as Ecuador. Brazil, a far larger country, may have more COVID...

Until this month, it looked like Latin America and the Caribbean might be spared the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then the world saw the tragic...