South America
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Peru oil spill after Tonga eruption an ‘ecological disaster’
The La Pampilla refinery has leaked over 6,000 barrels of oil after a tanker was hit by waves linked to…
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Covid: Viral photo highlights challenges of vaccinating Amazon
A photo of an indigenous man carrying his father on his back to take a Covid-19 vaccine in the Brazilian…
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Record numbers of young Guatemalans migrate north, leaving families in limbo
Her 15-year-old grandson Kevin pulled a backpack over his shoulders and climbed into the car that would take him on…
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The priests navigating Colombia’s conflict zones
Passing his hand along the map, he explains where armed groups plant landmines. BBC “All around there, they’re forcibly confining…
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Small children are climbing 60-foot trees to harvest your açaí
As his sisters slept in their hammocks, the boy fired up the family’s longboat, headed upstream and collected the order…
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Cuba’s post-revolution architecture offers a blueprint for how to build more with less
Construction and buildings account for more than one-quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. M. Wesam Al Asali The Conversation Meanwhile, according…
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TikTok videos humanise Colombia’s cocaine workers
Viral social media videos in Colombia reveal how the people on the lowest rung of the cocaine industry work and…
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The English language dominates global conservation science – which leaves 1 in 3 research papers virtually ignored
But our new research reveals how important scientific knowledge in other languages is going untapped. Tatsuya Amano The Conversation This oversight squanders…
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Venezuela crisis: Three in four in extreme poverty, study says
Researchers at Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB) linked the increase to both the pandemic and a fuel crisis. BBC Since…
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South America’s drought-hit Paraná river at 77-year low
The river is key to commercial shipping and fishing but also provides 40 million people with drinking water. BBC A…
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Venezuela: Making the Most of the Mexican Breakthrough
The discussions will likely be long and cumbersome, but there is space for partial and early agreements that could improve…
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House Democrats Want to Know the Truth About the Bolivian Coup
The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday night to approve a measure directing the State Department to investigate the Washington-based…
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Brazil’s Atlantic Forest will change more in the next 50 years than at any time since the last ice age
Roughly one in every 50 species of plant and vertebrate land animal lives there and nowhere else. Oliver Wilson The…
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Handling the Aftermath of Haiti’s Presidential Assassination
In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Mariano de Alba explains the state of play and what outside actors should do…
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If sanctions failed to solve Nicaragua’s crisis, will more sanctions succeed?
Before excusing himself to join his daughter’s graduation, he told me that if President Daniel Ortega were to win elections…
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The Might and the Right: How Far Will Brazil’s Military Back Bolsonaro?
Will the generals stay the course? Could they break with him, at peril to their institutional interests? These questions, crucial…
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