South America
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Brazilian group seeks to stop aircraft carrier sale to Turkish company
One wants to turn the ship into a museum. Tayfun Ozberk Defense News The other, a training ship for the…
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Brazil plunges deeper into crisis with record monthly COVID-19 deaths and trio of military chief exits
Brazil closed out its deadliest month of the coronavirus pandemic by far on Wednesday as a surge of COVID-19 patients…
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Building a Democratic High-Tech Alliance
Leaders on both sides of the Atlantic must now build a technological alliance of democracies to set more favorable global…
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Thousands of minors without papers are arriving at the US-Mexico border, posing a challenge for Joe Biden
Thousands of minors without papers are arriving at the US border with Mexico, presenting President Joe Biden with a potentially…
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Deeply Rooted: Coca Eradication and Violence in Colombia
Bogotá and Washington should abandon their heavy-handed elimination efforts and help growers find alternatives to the hardy plant. ICG What’s…
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Latin America: inequality and political instability have lessons for the rest of the world
He was talking primarily about America, where the income share of the top 1% almost doubled between 1980 and 2015.…
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Isabel Allende: ‘Everyone called me crazy for divorcing in my 70s. I’ve never been scared of being alone’
The Chilean American author Isabel Allende was a feminist long before she knew what the word meant. Fiona Sturges The Guardian At…
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The controversial hunt for a multibillion-dollar treasure in a Chilean park
The archipelago is rich in marine and terrestrial biodiversity and comprises three islands: Barinia Montoya Mongabay Santa Clara, Alejandro Selkirk,…
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EU faces criticism over downgrading Venezuela’s Guaidó
EU countries on Monday doubled down on their decision to downgrade the status of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, drawing…
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‘Nowhere is safe’: Colombia confronts alarming surge in femicides
When authorities pulled the lifeless body of four-year-old María Ángel Molina out of a river in rural Colombia on 13 January,…
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Brazil Indigenous leaders sue Jair Bolsonaro for ‘crimes against humanity’
Two top Brazilian Indigenous leaders have asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate President Jair Bolsonaro for “crimes against…
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Biden’s peaceful inauguration doesn’t end America’s longtime coup addiction
He was inaugurated under intense security following the attempted coup on Jan. 6, 2021, by Donald Trump supporters after the former…
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Guatemalan authorities crack down on thousands of US-bound migrants fleeing poverty and violence
Guatemalan authorities on Saturday (local time) escalated efforts to stop thousands of Hondurans, many of them families with children, traveling…
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The BRICs at 20
While some of them have surpassed expectations, others have fallen short, as have the relevant global-governance institutions. Jim O’Neill Project…
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Deforestation destroyed more than two football fields of Brazil’s Amazon a minute last year
Deforestation destroyed the equivalent of more than two football pitches each minute in the Brazilian Amazon in 2020, another devastating…
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The Mystery of the World’s Loneliest Penguins
How they got there, and whether they will stay, is unknown. Victoria Turk Wired UK Some years ago, researchers in…
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