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Latino Community Divided over Boycott Plan

A day laborer in Annandale, Va., reads a flier on April 29, 2006, for a nationwide boycott planned for May 1st.
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A day laborer in Annandale, Va., reads a flier on April 29, 2006, for a nationwide boycott planned for May 1st.

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Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic.