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By Ellie Shechet Trees and forests play a huge role in the carbon cycle, or the movement of carbon dioxide through the atmosphere. Thanks to activities like deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels, there is now 2.5 times the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere than...
By Alistair Bell & Mitra Taj Losing the fight against same-sex marriage at home, leading U.S. evangelical Christians are joining in the culture wars in Latin America as cheerleaders for opponents of gay legal partnerships, abortion and pornography. One of the...
The Pan American Health Organization is describing South America as the "epicenter" of the Covid-19 virus as new cases and deaths soar in Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and lowland areas of Bolivia. Other countries, including Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina...
By Olga Rodriguez and Marcos Martinez They travel thousands of miles by plane from Latin America to the U.S., in some places taking a shuttle directly from the airport to COVID-19 vaccine sites. Their ranks include politicians, TV personalities, business executives...
By Oscar Medina and Ezra Fieser Colombia is trying to ramp up taxes on its richest citizens to tackle the ballooning deficits and mass poverty caused by lockdowns and the pandemic. The country is also grappling with a flood of Venezuelan refugees that totals an...
By Julie Turkewitz and Isayen Herrera She wore a ponytail and a red T-shirt, the words “Glitter Girl” sketched across the front. Gripping her mother’s hand, she spoke softly, describing how she had been forced out of school by Venezuela’s economic crisis, and then was...
Ongoing volcanic eruptions have displaced about 20% of people in the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent as a U.N. official on Wednesday warned of a growing humanitarian crisis. Between 16,000 to 20,000 people were evacuated under government orders before La...
By Jack Guy, Vasco Cotovio and Rodrigo Pedroso A huge statue of Jesus Christ is under construction in southern Brazil, and it will be even taller than its famous counterpart in Rio de Janeiro. The "Christ the Protector" statue is being built in Encantado, a small town...
By Mitra Taj Peru’s presidential election is headed for a runoff, with Pedro Castillo, a far-left former union activist and teacher, in the lead, according to data released Monday by the country’s electoral body. He will likely face a right-wing candidate in a second...
By Regina Garcia Cano and Mauricio Muñoz A surging coronavirus pandemic that has brought on new lockdown measures and exacerbated fatigue in Ecuador and Peru has left many voters generally indifferent to the names they will see on the ballots Sunday, when the...
By Priscilla Alvarez The Biden administration has placed around 28,000 radio ads in Latin America as part of a stepped-up campaign to discourage people from journeying to the US. But amid a dramatic spike in migrants to the southern border, many of whom have been...
By Stefano Pozzebon More than 100 days since the first Covid-19 vaccinations in Latin America, the pandemic is still dangerously resurging in some areas. The region's recent battle with the coronavirus remains marked by disparities, with some countries boasting of...
Chile closed its borders and tightened an already strict lockdown further on Thursday to slow the spread of the coronavirus and stop the influx of contagious new variants as cases climbed past 1 million despite one of the world’s fastest vaccination rates. The...
By Dawn Gilbertson Korey Mudd wasn't fazed by the cleaning crew outside his Mexico hotel room when he and his wife returned from the pool. "There was someone wiping down the door and the handles and stuff,'' he said. "They asked me if it was my room, and I said,...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday proposed paying for vaccines against the Covid-19 virus with oil, though he provided few details about how such a scheme would work. The crisis-stricken OPEC nation's crude exports have plummeted to their lowest levels in...
Drugmaker Pfizer employed “high-level bullying” against at least two Latin American countries during negotiations to acquire vaccines according to a recent investigation, including requesting the nations put sovereign assets as collateral for payments. In other cases,...
By Daniela Desantis and Carlos Valdez Sandra Contreras, camped outside Lima’s Villa el Salvador hospital, is running out of funds to pay for her mother’s COVID-19 treatment, a sign of thin welfare systems around Latin America that are dragging many into debt and...
By Andrew Rosati Latin America and the Caribbean, the region where the coronavirus outbreak caused the worst economic destruction and more than a quarter of the world’s deaths, is now falling victim to a slow inoculation campaign. Political fights and production...
By the Asssociated Press It seemed like a match made in finance heaven. In 2010, China, its economy roaring and state companies looking to expand globally, set its eyes on Latin America, a region starved of capital but rich in natural resources the Asian giant lacked....
Argentina’s Minister of Health Gines Gonzalez Garcia has resigned after media reports that people had been able to use connections to get access to Covid-19 vaccines. President Alberto Fernández had requested the resignation shortly after the news broke. The scandal,...
