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Students in Puerto Rico will no longer have to pay U.S. college entrance exam fees.

Puerto Rico eliminates U.S. college entrance exam fees

By Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's governor says public school students will no longer have to pay to take the standardized entrance exams … Read More

What killed Pablo Neruda? His foundation wants his body exhumed to find out.

Poet Pablo Neruda’s body exhumed to end suspicion about death

By Eva Vergara, Associated Press

ISLA NEGRA, Chile (AP) — The body of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda is being exhumed this weekend in an effort to clear up four decades of suspicion about how he … Read More

Actor Demian Bichir will be making his directorial debut in an upcoming indie film.

Demián Bichir will make directorial debut in new indie film

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Demián Bichir is using his experience in front of the camera to create magic behind the scenes as he makes his directorial debut with an indie film titled … Read More

Miniature flags representing Cuba and the U.S. are displayed on the dash of an American classic car in Havana, Cuba, Friday, March 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Key US decision on Cuba terror-designation coming

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HAVANA (AP) — A normally routine bit of Washington bureaucracy could have a big impact on U.S. relations with Cuba, either ushering in a long-stalled detente … Read More

Telemundo Latin America news roundup - January 18, 2013

Telemundo Latin America news roundup – January 18, 2013

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The latest Latin America news in under 59 seconds. Mothers of murdered young women in Mexico are marching over 200 miles to demand that the government find … Read More

Nicolas Maduro, Henrique Capriles

Telemundo Latin America news roundup – January 15, 2014

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Two people were shot dead at a pre-Carnival party in Brazil over the weekend. Ten other party-goers were wounded. The identity of the shooter is unknown but … Read More

Does your baby have one of the year's most popular names?

20 most popular Hispanic baby names

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Isabella, Sofia, Santiago and Sebastián are just a few of the most popular names Latino parents in the United States gave their babies in 2012. And chances … Read More

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Cuba pushes swap: its spies jailed in US for American contractor held in Havana

By Michael Isikoff

It seems straight out of a Cold War spy movie. A group of Cuban undercover agents sneak into the U.S. and set up a secret pro-Castro network in south Florida … Read More

Argentine lawmakers lowered the legal voting age from 18 to 16.

Telemundo Latin America news roundup – November 1, 2012

By NBCLatino Staff

The latest Latin America news in under 59 seconds. Argentine lawmakers officially lowered the country's voting age from 18 to 16. More than a million new … Read More

In this April 17, 2008 file photo, an unexploded ordinance is blown up in a controlled demolition at the former Vieques Naval Training Range, on Vieques island, Puerto Rico. An extensive cleanup of Vieques is underway and the Navy says it's close to finishing work on a former munitions disposal site on the island. It would be a milestone for the cleanup but the plan has sparked criticism.

US reignites anger in Puerto Rico with plan to fence off abandoned bombing range on Vieques

By Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. government has a new fight in Vieques, the Puerto Rican island that was used as a Navy bombing range for decades. An … Read More