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What will it take to get people to buy electric vehicles? It is one of the biggest questions facing the United States these days as we hope to make some …
Slow Electric Vehicle Charging Is Making Drivers Switch Back to Gas Read More
Located just 60km from Rio de Janeiro, Marica has modelled itself into a very different city, paying residents a universal basic income, using its own digital currency and procuring its …
Amid Brazil’s COVID chaos, socialist Marica forges different path Read More
Tatiana Araujo de Sirqueira, a 33-year-old single mother of six, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are almost neighbours, but they inhabit different universes. Sirqueira lives by a landfill less than …
Brazilians thrown back into poverty as COVID aid dries up Read More
Without robust due diligence, financial institutions will continue to fund soy-driven deforestation. By Daniel Jones. Late last year, the UK government announced “world-leading new measures” to protect rainforests. Enshrined in …
Deforestation: the route away Read More
The IMF moves forward with its austerity and deregulation agenda for Ecuador. The next commitment for the South American country is so-called “Central Bank independence,” which is will preventing its …
The IMF’s austerity drive comes for the Central Bank of Ecuador Read More
When it’s time for harvest, Germán Graciano Posso, a 38-year-old Colombian farmer, leaves his village, La Florencita, with a group of co-workers and heads into the hills where the cacao …
Cooperation and Chocolate: The Story of One Colombian Village’s Quest for Peace Read More
15 December should be a turning point in the IMF’s relationship to the people of Ecuador: a chance for reflection, a fresh start in a new year, an opportunity to …
IMF austerity is strangling Ecuador – again. Read More
Up and down the length of Chile, people are turning to soup kitchens for their hunger needs as the coronavirus pandemic broadens inequality after lockdown measures shuttered the informal economy …
Grassroots aid grows in middle-income Chile, as COVID-19 drives new needs Read More
As Honduras endures its second major hurricane in as many weeks, international aid agencies and local volunteer groups are scrambling the best responses they can to assist people displaced by …
In storm-hit Honduras, a climate crisis drives needs and fuels migration Read More
On Nov. 15, Brazilians will head to the polls for the first round of municipal elections. In the city of Rio de Janeiro, voters who choose the candidate identified by …
In Brazil, Women Candidates Find Strength in Numbers Read More