High-voltage towers, metal fences, and warning signs greet visitors as they enter the rural town of Charrúa, located nearly 500 kilometers south of Santiago, Chile’s capital. Here, a community made up ...

El murmullo de oraciones llena el salón donde el padre Melo, preside el funeral de Juan López, el último defensor del medioambiente asesinado en Honduras. Melo, tiene la mirada baja, la voz pausada, ...

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RORAIMA, BRAZIL – The sun has barely risen as men and women leave their homes to make their way towards the maloca, a tall hut as large as an amphitheater. A single wooden column at the center holds ...

A century ago when legendary tango singer Carlos Gardel walked the streets of Buenos Aires, he assured Argentinians in his song “Volver” that 20 years is nothing. Today, they are loath to accept that ...

On a recent morning, researcher Dominick Dusseau offers a glimpse into the future of Chelsea, Massachusetts, a small, industrial city just across the Mystic River from Boston. On digital maps he ...

This story was republished with permission from World Politics Review. Heightened tensions between the U.S. and China have many observers likening their strategic competition to a geopolitical ...

NEW YORK — A dozen Mexican New Yorkers showed their support for Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known by his initials AMLO, by staging a Valentine’s Day-themed rally at Union Square on ...

This article is co-published with NACLA. Lurching along cobbled roads in Bolivia’s Chapare region on his mud splattered motorbike, coca farmer Umberto Flores searched for his relatives and friends ...

As a line of over 50 families waits alongside the multicolored fence of San Mateo park in the Soacha neighborhood of Bogotá, Maryluis Ruiz is undisturbed by the growing buzz of anticipation. Instead, ...

Activists say the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is not following its own sustainability guidelines and performance standards in the case of Hidroituango, the largest hydroelectric dam in ...

Latin America: Week in Review Christopher Columbus Monument Removed in Mexico City Ahead of Día de la Raza October 12, 2020 By Staff TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA MEXICO: Mexico City’s government removed a ...