Radical moves
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 …
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A Puerto Rican recipe for food sovereignty
Georges Félix tells why farmers in the Caribbean are turning down dependency and taking up the yoke. The foods we choose to consume and the strategies we use to produce …
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Be careful – running on empty
Investments in care services are core to a human-centred recovery says Valeria Esquivel. The Covid pandemic is a health, social and economic global catastrophe, still unravelling in many parts of …
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El Salvador Has Adopted Bitcoin As Legal Tender
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: El Salvador this week officially became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. Tim Padgett of member station WLRN in Miami …
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How corruption has added to Latin America’s COVID death toll
After coming down with COVID-19 in December, Vinicio Sánchez visited three health centres in a single day. At the first, a clinic in the south of Ecuadorian capital, Quito, he …
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Global South countries come together
The Summit brings together Global South governments, political leaders, healthcare workers and vaccine manufacturers from more than twenty countries and follows criticism of the G7’s plan by U.N. aid chief …
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Slow Electric Vehicle Charging Is Making Drivers Switch Back to Gas
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 …
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Amid Brazil’s COVID chaos, socialist Marica forges different path
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 …
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Brazilians thrown back into poverty as COVID aid dries up
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 …
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Deforestation: the route away
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 …
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