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In this Jan. 15, 2018 photo, Honduras' new national Police Chief Jose David Aguilar Moran, center, leaves after a ceremony that transferred command to him in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Jan. 15, 2018. When Aguilar took over as Honduras' new national police chief, he promised to continue reforming a law enforcement agency stained by corruption and complicity with drug cartels, but a confidential government security report obtained by the AP says Aguilar himself helped a cartel leader pull off the delivery of nearly a ton of cocaine in 2013. (AP Photo)

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AP Investigation: Secret report linked Honduran national police chief to cartel coke delivery

FEB. 2, 2018

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Pope Francis meets reporters during his flight to Santiago, Chile, Jan. 15, 2018. A 2015 letter from the pope obtained by AP showed that Francis knew that Bishop Juan Barros was accused of complicity in covering up sexual abuse, but the pope appointed Barros bishop anyway. The scandal and Francis' subsequent accusations of slander triggered a backlash against the pope. (AP Photo / Alessandra Tarantino)

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Pope responds, in person, after AP scoop on papal letter about Chilean bishop

JAN. 26, 2018

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Pope’s letter to Chilean bishops reveals his knowledge of scandal

JAN. 19, 2018

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Disturbing surge of homicides in post-hurricane Puerto Rico

JAN. 19, 2018

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In this Oct. 20, 2017 photo, Simone Batista holds her baby Arthur as tears roll down her cheeks while she recounts being cut from the "Bolsa Familia" government subsidy program for low-income people, at her shack home in the Jardim Gramacho slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 20, 2017. Batista wants to appeal the government cutting her from the program, but doesn't have enough money to take buses to the administrative office. downtown. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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Millions return to extreme poverty in Brazil

NOV. 3, 2017

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Clerical sex abuse disclosures skyrocket in pope’s Argentina

NOV. 3, 2017

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Gamble pays off: AP locates former hostage family on plane and gets first statement

OCT. 20, 2017

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Brazil branches of US-based church target of numerous probes

OCT. 20, 2017

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In this Sept. 6, 2017 photo Thayana Caparica poses with a photo of her 7-year-old daughter Fernanda, at the Mare complex of slums, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Classes at Fernanda's school were canceled on the morning of Feb. 15, due to gunfire between gangs. Caparica took her daughter home and ordered Fernanda and her two brothers not to leave the house. But by the afternoon Fernanda had grown impatient and wanted to play outside. She kept insisting. Finally Caparica let her go to a friend's house. Later that day she learned that her daughter had been shot in the face. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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Kids being killed in crossfire in Rio de Janeiro amid surge in violence one year after Olympics

OCT. 13, 2017

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Rescue workers search for survivors at an apartment building located on the street corner of Amsterdam and Laredo, that collapsed during an earthquake in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 earthquake has stunned central Mexico, killing more than 200 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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AP staffers surmount dual disasters in Mexico and Puerto Rico

SEPT. 29, 2017

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The Hotel Capri in Havana, Cuba, is photographed Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. New details about a string of mysterious “health attacks” on U.S. diplomats in Cuba indicate the incidents were narrowly confined within specific rooms or parts of rooms. Aside from their homes, officials said Americans were attacked in at least one hotel, the recently renovated Hotel Capri, steps from the Malecon, Havana’s iconic, waterside promenade.(AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

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Cuba mystery deepens: AP first with details of ‘health attacks’ against US diplomats

SEPT. 22, 2017

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Exclusive: Argentina priest sex abuse

AUG. 24, 2017

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