We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sonia Nazario, who has closely detailed why migrants from Central America are fleeing their homes in an attempt to seek asylum in the United States. Nazario spent a month in Honduras documenting how corruption and gang violence are forcing many people to flee.
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Ten years ago, I flew across the Amazon Jungle, amazed by its immensity though also alarmed by scares where thick greenery had been cleared away and substituted by dismal remains of dead trees, or dry cattle pastures and soy plantations.
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Reyna Díaz cooks beans, chicken, pork and desserts in her solar cooker, which she sets up in the open courtyard of her home in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of this town in southwestern Mexico.
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Members of an organized crime group reportedly intended to kidnap Cuban migrants in exchange for ransom, when the shelter director, Aarón Méndez, was taken after trying to protect the migrants in his care.
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There is little evidence on how women’s lives are affected by the extremely high levels of violence that plagues the region. Not only data is limited, only few policies dedicated to addressing violence against women are evidence based.
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Venezuela’s government controlled Constituent Assembly on Monday announced the creation of a commission to consider early elections of the opposition-dominated National Assembly, whose powers it replaced.
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Germany will not be pulling out of the international Amazon Fund despite a decision by the country’s Environment Ministry to cut financial support for other projects in Brazil due to a massive increase in deforestation in the rainforest.
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In Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei of the ultraconservative Vamos party won the presidency after a runoff vote Sunday, where he faced off against former first lady Sandra Torres. He got 58% of the vote, with just 42% of eligible voters casting ballots.
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The US economic sanctions against the Venezuelan government and the warnings from US National Security Advisor John Bolton about a potential economic blockade on the Nicaraguan dictatorship have revived the phantoms of scarcity and extreme poverty that ravaged the country during the decade of the 1980s.
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Due to the sharp increase in rainforest clearings in Brazil, the German Environment Ministry has decided to stop funding projects for the protection of the forests and biodiversity in the country.
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