Corruption and decades of neglect have left taps running dry. A nationwide water crisis is exposing the cost of mismanagement, and millions are paying the price with daily water cuts.

Society | 2025-07-03

Drilling for water in Venezuela's parched oil town

Corruption and decades of neglect have left taps running dry. A nationwide water crisis is exposing the cost of mismanagement, and millions are paying the price with daily water cuts.

A deadly underground war pits China's Zijin Mining against the Clan del Golfo, while thousands of artisanal miners fight to survive between bullets, explosions and economic desperation.

Security | 2025-07-02

Clan del Golfo, Chinese mining giant and artisanal miners fight for Colombian gold

A deadly underground war pits China's Zijin Mining against the Clan del Golfo, while thousands of artisanal miners fight to survive between bullets, explosions and economic desperation.

Security forces sealed off a San Salvador district amid fears of gang resurgence. Despite concerns, the government's crackdown has slashed homicide rates, fueling strong domestic support for its security strategy.

Security | 2025-07-01

'Hidden' gangsters menace Salvadorans in former no-go zone

Security forces sealed off a San Salvador district amid fears of gang resurgence. Despite concerns, the government's crackdown has slashed homicide rates, fueling strong domestic support for its security strategy.

Brazil positions itself as a rare earth alternative to China. It offers cleaner extraction methods and attracts Western interest, despite higher costs and limited funding for scaling up production.

Economy | 2025-06-30

Brazil stakes claim in global rare earth race with Western backing

Brazil positions itself as a rare earth alternative to China. It offers cleaner extraction methods and attracts Western interest, despite higher costs and limited funding for scaling up production.

Hailed as a milestone in Sino-Peruvian ties, the Chancay port now sits at the center of a storm.

Environment | 2025-06-27

Environmental damage, fair competition concerns fuel Peru-China rift over Chancay port

Hailed as a milestone in Sino-Peruvian ties, the Chancay port now sits at the center of a storm.

The global tally of nuclear warheads stood at 12,241 in January, of which 9,614 were in military stockpiles for potential use.

Security | 2025-06-26

China ramps up nuclear arsenal as Russia struggles with missile failures, report finds
China has overwhelming scientific heft relative to all the other members, while various BRICS countries have little interest in free inquiry.

Science Technology | 2025-06-25

BRICS pushes for scientific cooperation, but success far from guaranteed
They are challenging a 'patriarchal-neocolonial model' of resource exploitation that marginalizes their voices.

Human Rights | 2025-06-17

Women spearhead resistance to Chinese mining in Peru and Ecuador

They are challenging a 'patriarchal-neocolonial model' of resource exploitation that marginalizes their voices.

Brazil and China are expanding their space partnership, but behind the smiles lie secrecy, unequal tech roles and growing doubts about sovereignty. Who really holds control?

Science Technology | 2025-06-13

Brazil's space alliance with China prompts sovereignty, social impact worries
Shein and Temu win over consumers with low prices but wreak havoc on local economies.

Economy | 2025-06-12

Chinese e-commerce platforms squeeze Latin America's textile industry
The project has been under development for over a decade and has faced sustained resistance from Indigenous communities, residents and environmental groups.

Security | 2025-05-19

Chilean dam arson exposes deep rifts with China over sovereignty, Indigenous rights
Almost three decades after Chinese authorities abducted Gedhun Choekyi Nyima at age six, Beijing still refuses to break its silence.

Human Rights | 2025-05-16

The boy taken by Beijing: 30 years without the Panchen Lama
A decades-long battleground: miners, loggers and settlers relentlessly raze the world's largest rainforest to feed China's growing appetite for soy and beef.

Environment | 2025-05-15

Brazilian Indigenous chief staves off Amazon destruction
Nicolás Maduro turns again to Beijing, but China's help comes at a cost. Behind talk of 'mutually beneficial cooperation,' Chinese negotiators demand even steeper discounts.

Energy | 2025-05-14

China: Strategic partner or silent profiteer of Venezuelan oil?
The group's operations reflect a broader goal: collecting political and economic intelligence on Latin American and Caribbean nations that either support or resist China's Belt and Road Initiative.

Security | 2025-05-13

China-linked cyber espionage hits Guatemala, escalating geopolitical concerns
As Chinese officials intensified their pressure on Bogota to join the Belt and Road Initiative before President Gustavo Petro leaves office, Colombian business leaders warned that the move comes at the worst possible time.

Politics | 2025-05-12

Uncertainty looms in Colombia ahead of CELAC-China forum in Beijing
Venezuela's defiance of an international court to hold elections in Guyana's resource-rich Essequibo is fueling a dangerous escalation.

Security | 2025-05-09

ICJ ruling ignored: Venezuela's stance on Essequibo fuels fears of invasion
A secretive trade deal with China, if enacted, could open El Salvador to a wave of low-cost, poor-quality imports, threatening local industries and jobs, economists warn.

Economy | 2025-05-08

El Salvador negotiates risky and opaque FTA with China
A study found at least 214 Mennonite colonies across Latin America, occupying more land than the Netherlands, and accelerating deforestation as they expand their farms deeper into the continent.

Environment | 2025-05-07

Mennonite settlements fuel tensions and deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon
What began as a mining project in Ecuador's Amazon has become a sustained campaign of aggression and abuse, fueled by Chinese financing and marked by a systematic pattern that has fractured communities and eroded the region's social fabric.

Human Rights | 2025-05-06

Complicit in destruction: Chinese banks fund abuses at Ecuador's Mirador mining project