January 30, 2012  |   When it comes to politics, I know a lot about The Decade of the Hispanic. I've been lucky enough to cover three of them. For as long as I've been a reporter, the Hispanic vote has been the next big...

December 21, 2011  |   Ray Suarez with Imam Mohamed Ziani, who helps train other imams to talk about HIV in their communities. The first report in the NewsHour's Morocco series airs on Wednesday night's broadcast. Watch a video preview of the stories. Many...

December 19, 2011  |   Ray Suarez in front of the Parliament of Morocco in Rabat, the location of mass protests earlier this year. The NewsHour's Morocco series begins Tuesday, watch a preview on our global health site. In 2009, a Moroccan newsmagazine worked...

November 23, 2011  |   Photo by Flickr user Katie Tower. It's the kind of conversation that sticks with you -- I was talking to a young father who sells shoes on a patch of public park in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. He...

November 3, 2011  |   Watch a preview of the NewsHour's two upcoming pieces from Nicaragua below, and read Ray Suarez's reflections on the political situation in the country. Friday on the NewsHour, Ray looks at what's at stake in the upcoming Nicaraguan elections, and...

October 26, 2011  |   A young child receives the new pneumococcal vaccine in Nicaragua. Any parent knows the scene very well: a practitioner tears open the packaging on a new syringe, pierces the top of a medicine bottle and draws just the right...

October 7, 2011  |   Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe. Photo by Tom Clynes. Ask the not-so-simple question of one of the world's leading virologists, "What is a virus?" and the reaction is immediate. He sits up in his chair, throws one leg over another....

September 30, 2011  |   Editor's note: Anwar al-Awlaki, a high-level U.S.-born cleric linked to al-Qaida, was killed in Yemen Friday, according to U.S. and Yemeni officials. After the shooting at Fort Hood at 2009, suspected gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's relationship with al-Awlaki-became the...

September 22, 2011  |   On Wednesday morning, President Obama took the stage at the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to present the world body with an American's view of the State of the World. How's the world doing? Not bad, it...

September 9, 2011  |   I am a New Yorker. I knew the Twin Towers well. In the tough economic times of the late '70s, I strolled the food court and the shopping areas on my way to sign for an unemployment check. As a...

September 8, 2011  |   CT scanners can be used to detect cancerous tumors. Photo by Flickr user Topsy Quret. In 10 days, the United Nations will convene a high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases. The world's global health news has been so dominated by...

August 24, 2011  |   A mother and child from Somalia at a refugee camp in Kenya. Photo by Kate Holt, CARE. The food crisis in Somalia gets worse by the day. Desperately hungry people are pouring out of their home provinces, crossing borders...

July 21, 2011  |   Women shelling mussels in Indonesia. Photo by Cat Wise. Hunger activists used to argue that the world produces more than enough food for all of its people -- it's the transportation, storage, and waste that cause the problem. Now,...

July 7, 2011  |   A visitor leaves the headquarters of News International Newspapers in London. Photo by Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Once upon a time, the British news business lived on one famous London street -- Fleet Street -- stretching just a...

June 29, 2011  |   Jakarta, Indonesia. Photo by Cat Wise. The NewsHour's global health team is in Indonesia shooting a series that will air in July. Indonesia now has one of the 20 largest economies in the world, yet nearly half its people...

June 23, 2011  |   Mentally ill man chained at the Yayasan Guluh facility in Bekasi, Indonesia. Photo by Cat Wise. It's hard to describe something sadder than the forlorn face of a man peering out at the world through the slats of a...

April 26, 2011  |   Prince and Princess of Wales on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on their wedding day, July, 29 1981. (Terry Fincher/Princess Diana Archive/Getty Images) I had been following the developments in the House of Windsor from faraway Rome, covering the...

April 5, 2011  |   Obesity rates are rising in several countries. Flickr photo/Keith McDuffee. If we consulted the health statistics kept by the rich countries club, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD, we might not be too surprised to find...

March 24, 2011  |   Cape Town, South Africa (Photo courtesy United Nations) Thursday is World Tuberculosis Day. Ray Suarez reported on the toll of the deadly airborne disease in South Africa in 2009 as one of his first stories with the global health...

February 15, 2011  |   A week of travel in Guatemala is a feast for the eyes: stunning volcanic peaks covered in a carpet of green -- cabbages, coffee, melons, bananas growing on impossibly steep hillsides -- and people working hard to wrestle a...

January 11, 2011  |   Ray Suarez in Haiti, July 2010 This past summer, I stood at the edge of a fetid pool of standing water. Marooned in the middle of the deepening pool were two forlorn soccer goals, indicating a place that wasn't...

December 29, 2010  |   Cuba -- its past, present and future -- sits comfortably in a category, along with abortion, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and now global climate change, of difficult stories to tell. No matter what the reporter writes, he or she is going...

December 20, 2010  |   Ray Suarez's three-part Cuba series begins Monday night on the NewsHour. When I returned from Cuba recently, I was struck by the intense level of curiosity about the place, and the air of mystery the United States trade embargo...

December 6, 2010  |   Sometimes being a reporter is as complicated as just paying attention to where you are. New impressions stand on the shoulders of everything you've learned before and create something fresh. Between the interviews and appointments and places we had...

December 3, 2010  |   Streets of Havana. (Photo by Andy Squires). All the stereotypes are still in place: Cubans love cigars, rum, music, and baseball. 1950s Chevys, Buicks, Plymouths, and 1970s Ladas and Zils from the Soviet Union still drive on the streets of...

November 24, 2010  |   A new study from the University of New Mexico suggests that children plagued with infectious disease at a young age may face a long-term consequence -- lower intelligence. Researchers found that when babies are sick, their bodies are using energy...

November 22, 2010  |   Mozambique is one of the world's poorest countries, grappling with high rates of poverty, HIV and malnutrition. But this coastal nation is also one of sub-Saharan Africa's star performers, posting steady economic growth year after year. We explore this dichotomy...

November 4, 2010  |   U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada speaks during a post-election news conference in Las Vegas. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images) LAS VEGAS | After one of the most closely-watched and hard-fought battles between an incumbent Democrat and a Republican...

November 1, 2010  |   CHICAGO | As campaign 2010 moved into its final hours this weekend, the president still had to campaign for the Democratic Party in one important place: his home state of Illinois. Alex Giannoulias, the Democrat hoping to win the...

October 22, 2010  |   MAPUTO | A few weeks ago at the U.N., I interviewed the Health Minister of Mozambique, Paolo Ivo Garrido. By the time I got to Maputo in October, Garrido had been dismissed as health minister in a cabinet reshuffling and...

October 20, 2010  |   MAPUTO, Mozambique | Heard much about Mozambique in the last 35 years? It's a country that doesn't get much attention in the United States. It's a big place, roughly the size of Pakistan, and sparsely populated by some 23...

October 11, 2010  |   When I wrote my 2006 book "The Holy Vote" I thought I was writing about the end of something, not the beginning. It looked like openly religious politics, the voter appeals intertwined with religion, and the alliance of one of...

September 13, 2010  |   Kieve Camp is unique place in Nobleboro, Maine. It began by offering a special type of quiet healing and respite for surviving family members of the victims of Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and has since started doing the same for...

September 10, 2010  |   Ray Suarez reports at Ford Hood. Photo by Daniel Sagalyn Fort Hood is a remarkable place. One day recently began with a bowl of cereal at my kitchen table in Washington, and ended that night with dinner in Killeen,...

September 9, 2010  |   A soldier participates in occupational therapy at Fort Hood. Photo by Daniel Sagalyn The largest army base in the United States is in the middle of Texas, hours south of Dallas, hours west of Houston and a good bit...

July 29, 2010  |   Reaction has flowed in fast and furious to a judge's decision to block parts of an Arizona immigration law and the pledge from Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to appeal the ruling. Ray Suarez and a NewsHour reporting team are in...

July 13, 2010  |   The temperature has been in the mid-90s, but the humidity makes it feel like it's over 100. The sun pounds the pavement, heat radiates from the cinder block walls that push pedestrians to a narrow strip of sidewalk in...

July 12, 2010  |   Six months after a powerful earthquake rocked Haiti, more than one million people are still homeless and the people of Port-au-Prince and surrounding regions continue to suffer the economic, physical and mental after-effects of the devastating temblor. The NewsHour has...

July 7, 2010  |   Haitian washes clothes in tent camp. Photo by Thony Belizaire/AFP/Getty Images When I left Haiti in February, just three weeks after the earthquake that took 250,000 lives, I knew I would have to come back. The destruction had been...

July 5, 2010  |   Ever since our hour-long, live-streaming interview with BP executive Bob Dudley last week, which featured questions from the public submitted via YouTube and Google, people have been asking me questions about how the conversation unfolded and the reactions to...

June 11, 2010  |   To fully appreciate why South Africa is so excited about hosting the World Cup, you have to remember how recently the sports-crazy country was isolated on the international scene. One of the few things South Africans of all colors agreed...

June 2, 2010  |   Several countries pulled out all the stops to impress visitors recently at the Shanghai 2010 Expo, showing off new technology and national treasures. Our reporting series from China continues on Wednesday's Newshour, when Ray Suarez examines how the Expo illustrates...

June 1, 2010  |   If one picture from China can tell a story of how this country has changed in the 21st century, it's one of a line of youths boarding a bus in front of a hospital for a field trip. It's...

May 31, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable('news01s4000q7d0',482,304,{pap_usecache: true}); //--><!]]> It was interesting, kind of retro, to be in a country where so many people still light up, where so many stores were selling cigarettes, and the telltale odor of smoke, or a just-stubbed out butt,...

May 13, 2010  |   At five-and-a-half feet tall, with brown hair, brown eyes and a beard, I can walk unnoticed in great big chunks of the world. On the streets of Lima and Mexico City, throughout the Mediterranean, across North Africa to the...

May 12, 2010  |   I spent last week in northeastern China zipping around on new superhighways, passing millions of newly planted trees, new rail lines and massive train stations, enormous shopping malls, and skyscrapers -- all amid a people working, working, working. When...

May 11, 2010  |   World's fairs are fun. There, I've said it. Campy fun, perhaps, but fun all the same. Traditional music and native dress. Buildings that attempt to boil down the essence of a country's identity into a striking, but affordable structure....

April 21, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom ('news01s3e92qe7c',482,304,""); //--><!]]> Well, I'm still in London. The sky is still bright blue and beautiful, the weather is unseasonably fine for April, and the airspace over Britain is finally streaked with the occasional airplane after a five-day shut...

April 17, 2010  |   LONDON | Another day. Another clear blue sky. And another cancelled flight because of what's lurking above that clear blue sky. I was just about to write this post, about the airport closings, the delays, the crammed ferry landings, the...

April 13, 2010  |   In addition to his work at the NewsHour, Ray Suarez is also host of a program produced by Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, HITN, called "Destination Casa Blanca." This entry was originally posted on HITN's site, and is cross-posted...

April 1, 2010  |   Maybe you're old enough to remember when people first began dying of a disease that caused a catastrophic breakdown in the body's ability to fight disease. Young people were being killed off by infections the body normally kept in check...

March 29, 2010  |   When you're in a four-wheel drive vehicle threading its way through rocky mountain passes in the Andes, it's hard to imagine getting around any other way. But people do. Our driver slows on a narrow curve to make way for...

March 26, 2010  |   In addition to his work at the NewsHour, Ray Suarez is also host of a program produced by Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, HITN, called "Destination Casa Blanca." This entry was originally posted on HITN's site, and is cross-posted to...

March 19, 2010  |   In addition to my work at the PBS NewsHour, I've been the host of a program produced by Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, HITN. It's called "Destination Casa Blanca," and bills itself as "the Latino Voice in Politics." Each week,...

March 16, 2010  |   Old Peru: bloated state sector, runaway borrowing, hyperinflation, presided over by President Alan Garcia. New Peru: trimmed-down state sector, privatization, solid currency, presided over by President Alan Garcia. Peru was once a stereotypical victim of multiple Latin American diseases....

March 12, 2010  |   Thousands of workers who labored at the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks may be eligible to split up to $657.5 million in settlement money for damage to their health from...

March 11, 2010  |   Advocates of immigration reform that would create a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. were asked to be patient. After the Obama campaign promised comprehensive reform and won by a convincing margin, they were...

January 29, 2010  |   Sometimes, the best things happen in the news business when you just happen to be at an optimal place, at an optimal moment. Today the NewsHour team was starting to shoot a story on the struggle to get the Haitian...

January 26, 2010  |   Here's a crash course in Haitian economics: Stores in the country's biggest city are closed, and don't appear ready to open very soon. Their employees and the employees of thousands of enterprises around the city haven't been to work...

January 25, 2010  |   What constitutes good news in the midst of a tragedy like Haiti's? Today the NewsHour team headed out to Haiti's massive central plateau to see an operation that has stretched its modest resources to fit an oversized disaster. The...

January 24, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable('news01s3976qd89',482,304,{pap_usecache: true}); //--><!]]> Ray Suarez and a team from the NewsHour are in Port-au-Prince, reporting on the aftermath of an earthquake that has ravaged the Haitian captial and turned the eyes of the world back to the story of...

January 23, 2010  |   Maybe you've been riveted by the scenes of desperation and heroism from Haiti. Maybe you've seen the bodies stacked for burial by earth- moving equipment before anonymous masses are bulldozed into a pit. The "Haiti Story" isn't just one...

January 15, 2010  |   BROOKLYN, N.Y.--The Haitians and Haitian-Americans of New York can see the newsstand photos of unimaginable suffering. They watch hour after hour of the television coverage that is now flowing freely from Port au Prince. For most of us, that coverage...

December 30, 2009  |   DISPATCH FROM MONTREAL: I have seen the future of air travel, or at least the next several months. Better bring comfortable shoes. Airport authorities around the world are quickly installing countermeasures to protect travelers heading for the U.S. This morning,...

December 21, 2009  |   Fresh off of his reporting trip to Copenhagen for international climate talks, Ray Suarez stopped by the Rundown Monday to talk to Hari Sreenivasan about the summit's conclusions and lingering questions over the climate agreements reached. Watch their conversation here...

December 17, 2009  |   A look at the state of negotiations at the Copenhagen conference just ahead of President Obama's arrival there: <!-- _pap_embed_custom('news01s3768qd30',482,304,""); //--><!]]>...

December 16, 2009  |   In excerpts of an interview with Ray Suarez in Copenhagen, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said climate negotiators must reach a "common-sense compromise." <!-- _pap_embed_custom('news01s374bqce7',482,304,""); //--><!]]>...

December 16, 2009  |   FROM COPENHAGEN: What world leaders have been calling "unthinkable" all week -- leaving Copenhagen without a comprehensive draft economic for reducing greenhouse gas emissions -- is suddenly thinkable. There are many big agenda items remaining, and the parties are still...

December 11, 2009  |   Just keep repeating to yourself: If any of this was easy, Kyoto would have worked. It's been 12 years since delegations from around the world met in Japan to discuss a coordinated global response to rising levels of greenhouse gases...

December 11, 2009  |   When the PBS NewsHour crew was in Lincoln City, Ore., as part of the Patchwork Nation project, senior correspondent Ray Suarez tested his hand at glassblowing. Watch and read more about his experience: <!-- _pap_embed_custom('news01s36eaqc2a',482,304,""); //--><!]]> I had a very...

December 10, 2009  |   Eagle, Colo. | Next in our Patchwork Nation series, we set off for a "Boom Town." Eagle County had doubled in population since the early years of the decade, and was set to double again quickly. Fueled by income coming...

December 9, 2009  |   This Iowa town of just under 7,000 people has weathered the recession well, so far. Food prices spiked higher in the last few years, providing a steady income stream to the farmers of Iowa's northwest corner. Government support for ethanol...

December 8, 2009  |   The home of the renowned University of Michigan is just a short drive from Detroit. In those 40 minutes, the traveler crossed from a city in freefall with unemployment approaching 30 percent, to a thriving small city, with new buildings,...

December 7, 2009  |   In a century, Philadelphia has moved from a city of skilled blue collar workers, an economy with more than half its jobs in manufacturing, to a city where one out of 20 workers made things for a living. Depending on...

December 3, 2009  |   An old Bob Marley song includes the lyric, "Remember that when the rain falls, it don't fall on one man's house." The worst recession since the Great Depression has hit millions of Americans in expected and unexpected ways. The pain...