As Chinese investments surge across Latin America, analysts question their long-term benefits and the secrecy that China insists on.

Economy | 2025-06-10

Latin America must regulate Chinese investments more aggressively: analysts

As Chinese investments surge across Latin America, analysts question their long-term benefits and the secrecy that China insists on.

The structure in El Salvador, funded by China, promised progress, but locals say it brought exclusion, secrecy and lost livelihoods instead.

Society | 2025-06-09

New pier in La Libertad: A tourism boost overshadowed by secrecy

The structure in El Salvador, funded by China, promised progress, but locals say it brought exclusion, secrecy and lost livelihoods instead.

From protesting secret drilling near sacred springs to waging legal battles for survival, locals are demanding no lithium without consultation.

Environment | 2025-06-06

'No water, no future': Indigenous Bolivians halt lithium deals with Russia and China

From protesting secret drilling near sacred springs to waging legal battles for survival, locals are demanding no lithium without consultation.

Some collectors treat lifelike dolls as real babies, skipping work to care for them. Their attachment can become a disorder.

Society | 2025-06-05

Hyper-realistic dolls disturb, obsess Brazilians

Some collectors treat lifelike dolls as real babies, skipping work to care for them. Their attachment can become a disorder.

The Chinese C919 jet's heavy reliance on US and European technology, engines, avionics and critical software exposes its manufacturer's limited global reach and fragile supply chain.

Economy | 2025-06-04

China's C919 plane hits turbulence in Brazil

The Chinese C919 jet's heavy reliance on US and European technology, engines, avionics and critical software exposes its manufacturer's limited global reach and fragile supply chain.

Daniel Ortega's regime is betting big on China, but new loans could push Nicaragua's debt to $1.19 billion and subject Nicaraguans to Chinese-designed internet monitoring.

Economy | 2025-06-03

Ortega's China ties push Nicaragua further into debt
The Chinese are buying, dissecting and turning Russian military gear into Chinese knockoffs.

Security | 2025-06-02

'A nation of copiers': China leverages Russian military tech to plan for Taiwan conflict
Rio de Janeiro dazzles millions, but beneath the samba beats, armed shootouts and tense standoffs reveal a city where paradise and peril still collide.

Security | 2025-05-26

In Rio de Janeiro, a wrong turn leads from paradise to peril

Rio de Janeiro dazzles millions, but beneath the samba beats, armed shootouts and tense standoffs reveal a city where paradise and peril still collide.

China now has four intelligence bases in Cuba capable of intercepting satellite data and monitoring US space launches, raising alarm about the extent of its recent progress.

Security | 2025-05-23

China's Cuba spying stations expand, posing a threat to the US and Latin America
The Toachi-Pilatón plant cost more than triple its original budget. Built by China's CWE, accused of failures in Peru and Chile, the project now faces scrutiny over structural flaws.

Energy | 2025-05-22

Ecuador hydro plant goes online after 17 years of delays, alleged corruption
Costa Rica faces a troubling shift as organized crime fuels a surge in homicides and drug trafficking. Foreign cartels and local gangs have driven violence to historic levels.

Crime & Justice | 2025-04-28

From safe haven to hot spot: organized crime imperils Costa Rica's tourism economy
Colombia hosts 3,000 edible plant species, but one in 10 is at risk of extinction. In 2024 alone, deforestation for farming and coca cultivation wiped out forests the size of Hong Kong.

Society | 2025-04-25

Colombia's 'Lord of the Fruit' leads fight to save native plant species
As construction advances on the National Stadium in San Salvador, critics say El Salvador's deals with China are shrouded in secrecy and shut out local workers.

Economy | 2025-04-24

Chinese state-owned firm with corrupt past builds El Salvador's National Stadium
Indigenous communities on the Ecuador-Colombia frontier face escalating violence as criminal organizations tighten their grip, forcing youth into their ranks, turning villages into human shields and spreading fear across ancestral lands.

Crime & Justice | 2025-04-23

Caught in the crossfire: Indigenous residents along Colombia-Ecuador border face cartel violence
The project would cut through untouched rainforest, threatening isolated Indigenous communities and increasing the risks of illegal land seizures, logging and drug trafficking, according to researchers.

Environment | 2025-04-22

Environmental concerns mount over China's Amazon railroad project
Instead of a perilous US journey and smuggler debt, Guatemalans found a better life locally through learning to sew, avoiding likely deportation.

Society | 2025-04-21

Empowered by sewing: Guatemalans find alternatives to migrating
In forgotten towns like Bojaya, violence still has a grip as armed groups fight over drug routes. Children suffer the most.

Security | 2025-04-18

Bojaya massacre: Forgotten Colombian town still haunted by war, drug trafficking
For centuries, the Guarani people have grown yerba mate on their ancestral lands. Today, they say that gold mining is poisoning their environment with mercury and arsenic.

Environment | 2025-04-17

Paraguayan gold rush embitters tea producers
Chinese fishing crews in South American waters face slave-like conditions, marked by poor medical care, extreme isolation, and exhaustion.

Human Rights | 2025-04-16

Labor abuse, deaths run rampant on Chinese vessels plundering South American waters
Cofco secured a loan tied to environmental goals but bought grain from suppliers linked to deforestation in the Cerrado and Amazon.

Environment | 2025-04-15

China buys Brazilian soybeans from deforested farms, misusing 'green loan'