Latin America

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Mariana López sits with her 7-year-old daughter at their home in Ahuachapan, El Salvador, May 19, 2022. López says she had an obstetric emergency in 2000, but was arrested on suspicion of inducing an abortion. She served 17 years in prison before being released when her 25-year sentence was commuted. El Salvador bans abortion under all circumstances; women who suffer miscarriages and stillbirths are sometimes accused of killing their babies and sentenced to years or even decades in prison. (AP Photo / Jessie Wardarski)

Abortion

AP explores El Salvador’s strict abortion ban through the voices of women who lived it

JUNE 17, 2022

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A young girl holds her stuffed animal overhead as migrants, many from Haiti, wade across the Rio Grande river from Del Rio, Texas, returning to Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, to avoid deportation, Sept. 20, 2021. The U.S. was flying Haitians camped in the Texas border town back to their homeland and blocking others from crossing the border from Mexico. (AP Photo / Félix Márquez)

Haiti

Across formats, across countries: AP dominates coverage of border migrant encampment

OCT. 1, 2021

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Migrants cross the Acandi River on their journey north near Acandi, Colombia, Sept. 15, 2021. The migrants, most Haitian, were on their way to crossing the perilous Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama. dreaming of eventually reaching the U.S. (AP Photo / Fernando Vergara)

Central America

AP has rare access as Haitian migrants, in bid to reach US, face perilous jungle crossing of Darien Gap

SEPT. 24, 2021

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Coronavirus

As families respond to the crisis, AP reveals desperate state of Venezuelan COVID treatment

NOV. 6, 2020

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Africa

AP documents international child labor as families put children to work during pandemic

OCT. 23, 2020

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Coup attempt

AP exclusive reveals ex-Green Beret’s failed Venezuelan coup plot

MAY 8, 2020

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Asylum

AP hours ahead as Trump moves to end nearly all asylum at southern border

JULY 26, 2019

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Latin America

AP breaks global news with unprecedented Maduro interview

FEB. 22, 2019

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Government

AP Exclusive: Secret diplomacy behind Venezuela’s self-declared interim president

FEB. 1, 2019

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Adoption

The Battle for Alexa: How deported parents could lose their kids to US adoptions

OCT. 19, 2018

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Latin America

AP multiformat teams give voice to separated, reunited families. And break news too.

JULY 6, 2018

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Latin America

Immigration: Back-to-back scoops by investigative teams, Washington reporters

JUNE 29, 2018

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