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Tourists walk on Perito Moreno Glacier at Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate, Argentina, Nov. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
World Glacier Day: Trekking the blue ice of Perito Moreno in Argentina
Friday, March 21 marks the inaugural World Glacier Day, an international observance established by the United Nations to raise awareness about the rapid retreat of glaciers worldwide.
March 21
A soccer fan joins retirees protesting for higher pensions and against austerity measures implemented by President Javier Milei's government in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Argentine retirees and soccer fans clash with police during protests against austerity measures
Argentine retirees and fans of several soccer teams have clashed with police during a protest in front of Congress in the capital, Buenos Aires, against the economic policies implemented by the government of President Javier Milei.
March 13
An Indigenous woman and her daughter walk past old election campaign murals ahead of the presidential run-off election in Cochapamba, Ecuador, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
In Ecuador’s highlands, an Indigenous community faces choice between 2 candidates they don’t trust
The two main candidates vying for Ecuador’s presidency never campaigned in Cochapamba. Their faces are nowhere to be seen in this remote Indigenous community in the Ecuadorian highlands.
February 12
Ruling party presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum greets supporters as she leaves a polling station after voting in the general election in Mexico City, Sunday, June 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
The first woman elected to lead Mexico faces pressing gender-related issues
Claudia Sheinbaum’s name will go down in Mexican history. The governing party candidate has won Mexico’s presidential election, a turning point in a mostly conservative nation that for over two centuries has been exclusively ruled by men.
June 3, 2024
FILES - This combination of two file photos shows Xochitl Galvez, at left, arriving to register her name as a presidential candidate on July 4, 2023 in Mexico City, and at right, Claudia Sheinbaum at an event that presented her as her party's presidential nominee on Sept. 6, 2023 in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, Files)
As two women vie for Mexico’s presidency, why are there questions about their ability to govern?
As two women candidates lead the polls in the race toward Mexico’s June 2 presidential election, one question has been splashed across polls, debates, media and conversations across Mexico. Are Mexicans ready for a woman president?
April 6, 2024
Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio speaks during a campaign event at a school minutes before he was shot to death outside the same school in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023 (API via AP)
Killing of Ecuador candidate deepens country’s sense of vulnerability to crime
The brazen assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio at a crowded political rally has deepened the country’s sense of vulnerability to its rising crime.
August 11, 2023