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On the morning of July 27, 2022, a small coalition of Shipibo fishers and local farmers living inside a protected area in the Peruvian Amazon steered their boats across a …
In Peru, forest communities are fighting to regain ownership of protected land Read More
The Honduran foreign minister has said that a decision to pursue diplomatic relations with China and ditch ties with Taiwan was motivated by economic interests rather than ideology. Speaking to the Canal …
Honduras says economic factors fuelling pursuit of China ties Read More
German chancellor Olaf Scholz flew to Latin America this week looking for one thing: lithium. Meeting with the leaders of Argentina, Chile, and Brazil — home to the so-called lithium triangle — …
The world needs lithium more than ever, and Latin America knows it Read More
In mid-January, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused the country’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, of facilitating genocide against the Indigenous Yanomami people, who live deep in the Amazon rainforest along the border …
How gold mining in Brazil is connected to hundreds of deaths Read More
In the early days of his presidency, he was acclaimed by crowds in public squares as the humble man representing those who had never held power in Peru. On Wednesday, …
Pedro Castillo: The 180 minutes that made Peru tremble Read More
Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva’s narrow victory over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s recent presidential election has reinvigorated the Latin American left. Despite recent setbacks in Peru and Argentina, left-wing governments in the …
Latin America’s pink tide is preparing for the green revolution Read More
How could mutual respect rein in Covid deaths? Irene van Staveren offers an explanation. Why were the Covid-19 death rates in populist countries such as the US, Brazil and India, …
Did social closeness beat Covid? Read More
More than 1,700 environmental and land defenders have been killed in the last decade. Most of them were Indigenous people — and most were in Latin America, a DW analysis …
Defending the environment can be a death sentence Read More
In Latin America and the Caribbean, a mix of technological, economic, social and political factors could come together to ensure that the region has the right conditions to become a …
Latin American could set a global example for a just energy transition Read More
Could a sway to the left in South America be the start of a new Latin step? Alexander Kozul-Wright looks at the partners. Political change in Latin America’s recent history …
Radical moves Read More