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Brazil's Neymar leaves the field at the end of a qualifying soccer match for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 against Bolivia at the Neo Quimica arena in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Brazil won 5-0. (Buda Mendes/Pool via AP)

Brazil, Argentina eye road hurdles in World Cup qualifiers

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Argentina's Lionel Messi celebrates scoring his side's first goal during a qualifying soccer match against Ecuador for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 at the Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020.(Agustin Marcarian/Pool via AP)

Argentina, Uruguay win in long-awaited World Cup qualifiers

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Jose Collantes helps his daughter Kehity do her homework where they live with Jose's sister in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, two months after his wife, her mother, died of COVID-19. Their case highlights how COVID-19 deaths the world over are often the beginning of a new personal journey for those affected. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

In Chile, life goes on for loved ones after COVID-19

By EVA VERGARA and ESTEBAN FÉLIX - Associated Press

Women and children sit idle at a migrant camp amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Lajas Blancas, Darien province, Panama, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. In Lajas Blancas, the migrants did not wear masks or practice social distancing, but Panama's Public Security Minister Juan Pino said there have not been more than 10 infections among the migrants. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco) **FILE**

Stalled by pandemic, migrants press in quest for better life

By JUAN ZAMORANO - Associated Press

North Chile shaken by powerful quake for 2nd time this week

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Magnitude-6.8 earthquake strikes off the coast of Chile

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In this screengrab of a video released by Chilean Investigative Police (PDI) shows Nicolas Zepeda prior to extradition to Paris, France where he faces charges related to the alleged 2016 slaying of his former Japanese girlfriend Narumi Kurosaki, at Augusto Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, July 23, 2020. He is charged in France with premeditated murder of Kurosaki whose body was never found. (Chile's Investigative Police via AP)

Chilean suspect jailed in French murder case of Japanese

By PHILIPPE MARION - Associated Press

Peruvian migrant coffin maker Cesar Ambrosio finishes the details on a production line of coffins at the Bergut Funeral Services in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, June 18, 2020. The coffin production has had to increase up to 120%, according to Nicolas Bergerie, owner of the factory. His more basic coffin model is called the COVID model and is made to cope with the increase of deaths during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chileans mass produce caskets to deal with COVID onslaught

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

Residents look out their window in the Villa Azul neighborhood, quarantined by authorities after 50 some people tested positive for the new coronavirus, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, May 25, 2020. The virus initially brought to the region largely by wealthy citizens or visitors coming from Europe and the United States is now increasingly concentrated in poorer neighborhoods where residents have few means of protecting themselves. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Disease that began among rich shifts to Latin America’s poor

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

In this March 20, 2020 photo, make-up artist Nadia Muñoz applies lipstick while listening to the television news about the first person in Peru who died of Coronavirus in an upper-middle-class neighborhood of Lima, Peru. &quot;We have a supermarket nearby, light, water, internet, a phone and cable TV,&quot; Muñoz as she recorded a makeup technique lesson to post on Instagram. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Coronavirus hits rich and poor unequally in Latin America

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and EVENS SANON and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO - Associated Press

In this photo taken March 6, 2020, Dionisio Romero, owner of a dragon fruit farm checks that the plants are free of some pests at his estate La Voluntad de Dios in El Progreso, Ecuador. As the coronavirus wreaks economic havoc worldwide, the farmer has watched demand for his fruit plummet and prices drop to astonishing lows, wiping away much of the profit he might normally expect. (AP Photo/Marcos Pin)

Virus could test Latin America’s already ailing economy

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO and MARCOS PIN MÉNDEZ - Associated Press

Women march during International Women's Day in Mexico City, Sunday, March 8, 2020. Protests against gender violence in Mexico have intensified in recent years amid an increase in killings of women and girls. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexico: Thousands stay in to protest violence against women

By PETER ORSI - Associated Press

This June 25, 2019, file photo shows the entrance to a Walmart in Pittsburgh. Walmart is reporting disappointing fourth-quarter profits and sales. The nation's largest retailer says that sales at its U.S. stores heading into the holiday season were weaker than expected. It also said that social unrest in Chile hurt its business. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

A rare miss for Walmart to end the year

By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO - Associated Press

This cover image released by Random House shows &quot;A Long Petal of the Sea,&quot; by Isabel Allende. (Random House via AP)

Isabel Allende talks about migration, life, aging and love

By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS - Associated Press

Marcelo Herrera, a demonstrator who claims he lost an eye after being shot with a shotgun by the police during the ongoing anti-government demonstrations, joins a protest in front of Palacio de La Moneda, in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. The United Nations released on Friday a report which stated that there have been serious violations of human rights during the repression of recent protests in Chile. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

UN official: Chilean police abused protester’s human rights

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2019 file photo, anti-government protesters fill Plaza Italia in Santiago, Chile. Student protests over a fare hike morphed into a nationwide call for socio-economic equality and better social services that brought millions to the streets and forced President Sebastián Piñera to increase benefits for the poor and disadvantaged and start a process of constitutional reform. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Students keep driving protests demanding change in Chile

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

USGS reports magnitude 6.0 quake off Chile’s northern coast

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Marcelo Herrera, his eye bandaged from an injury he received during recent protests, takes part in a demonstration in support of protesters who have been injured in the eye by Chilean police, in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019. More than 230 anti-government protesters have suffered an eye injury since the social unrest began on Oct. 18. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chileans who lost eyes in protests demonstrate in capital

By PATRICIA LUNA and EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2019 file photo, Colombia's President Ivan Duque waves to police cadets, accompanied by his interim Defense Minister and Armed Forces Commander Gen. Luis Fernando Navarro, left, during a graduation ceremony for the cadets in Bogota, Colombia. Labor unions, student groups and ordinary citizens are expected to join in on Thursday, Nov. 21, in what could be one of the nation's biggest demonstrations in recent years, testing the Duque government as unrest grips the region. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Colombians fill streets hoping to channel wave of discontent

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO and CÉSAR GARCÍA - Associated Press

Anti-government demonstrators clash with Chilean police during a protest in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. Students in Chile began protesting nearly a month ago over a subway fare hike. The demonstrations have morphed into a massive protest movement demanding improvements in basic services and benefits, including pensions, health, and education. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Chileans agree to replace dictatorship-era constitution

By EVA VERGARA and PATRICIA LUNA - Associated Press