Gabriel Medina, from Brazil, competes during the ISA World Surfing Games, qualifier for Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Marginal beach in Arecibo, Puerto Rico on Feb. 24. Alejandro Granadillo/AP hide caption
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Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille, during his interview with NPR in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. Cheriss May for NPR hide caption
Elections are happening all over the world. Aurelien Morissard/ Pool via AP; Rajesh Jantilal/AFP via Getty Images; Dan Kitwood/Getty Images hide caption
Portrait of the new Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille, during his interview with NPR at the Washington Hilton Hotel, in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Cheriss May for NPR hide caption
The challenges ahead for interim Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille are enormous
A server ladles soup into a container as children line up to receive food at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in March 2024. Gang violence in Haiti has displaced over 300,000 children since March, according to a new report from the U.N. children's agency released late Tuesday. Odelyn Joseph/AP hide caption
Hurricane Beryl loomed toward St. Vincent — and grew in power — as it brought threats of catastrophic winds and dangerous storm surges to the Windward Islands. The storm is seen here in a satellite image just after sunrise on Monday. NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES-East hide caption
A soldier gestures for journalists to leave Plaza Murillo as soldiers gather outside the presidential palace in Plaza Murillo in La Paz, Bolivia, on Wednesday. Bolivian President Luis Arce warned that an “irregular” deployment of troops was taking place in the capital, raising concerns that a potential coup was underway. Juan Karita/AP hide caption
Godfrey Otunge, commander of the Kenyan police in Haiti, attends a ceremony during a visit by Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille, to the base of the newly arrived Kenyan police force at their base in the Clercine neighborhood of Port-au-Prince on June 26. Kenyan police arrived in violence-ravaged Haiti on June 25 on a long-awaited mission to help wrest the Caribbean nation from powerful gangs. Clarens Siffroy/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Supporters of President Luis Arce chase soldiers as they flee from Plaza Murillo, after a failed coup attempt in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Juan Karita/AP hide caption
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
An aerial view of banana plantations in Apartado, Colombia, taken on June 11. Banana giant Chiquita Brands International says it will appeal a federal jury's decision finding it liable for financing a Colombian paramilitary group known for rampant killings. Danilo Gomez/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A woman in the window of a women-only metro car in Mexico City on October 2023. Sara Messinger hide caption
Virginia Ponce searches around the Xaltepec volcano for any evidence of remains of human bodies that could have been buried there. on Tlahuac, Mexico City, May 28, 2024. Israel Fuguemann for NPR hide caption
Will Mexico's president-elect help relatives looking for missing loved ones?
Claudia Sheimbaum celebrating during her speech in Mexico City on June 3, 2024. Israel Fuguemann for NPR hide caption
Elena Poniatowska poses for a portrait in her home in Mexico City on May 28, 2024. Israel Fuguemann /NPR hide caption
Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum speaks at her closing campaign rally at the Zocalo in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Mexico's general election is set for June 2. Eduardo Verdugo/AP hide caption
Supporters of presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez shout her name at her campaign rally in Los Reyes la Paz just outside of Mexico City, on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Mexico's general election is set for June 2. Fernando Llano/AP hide caption
Davy and Natalie Lloyd were among three missionaries killed in Haiti after being ambushed at the Port-au-Prince, officials with the mission organization said Friday, May 24, 2024. The third victim was Jude Montis, who was the country's director of Missions In Haiti Inc. Brad Searcy Photography/via AP hide caption
Argentina's President Javier Milei gestures as he presents his book "El camino del libertario" in Madrid, Spain, on Friday. Manu Fernandez/AP hide caption
Jimmy Chérizier, a former elite police officer known as Barbecue who now runs a gang federation, speaks during an interview in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, May 11. Odelyn Joseph/NPR hide caption
Haiti's notorious gang leader, Barbecue, says his forces are ready for a long fight
People cycle along the street in Afuá, a city in northern Brazil's Pará state, in January. Since 2002, this city on the banks of the Amazon River has been famously off limits to motor vehicles. Stefan Kolumban hide caption