NEW YORK—José Miguel Cañón was walking home one night in the 20 de Julio neighborhood of Bogotá, Colombia, when a motorcycle with two men stopped next to him. One man got off, pushed Cañón against a ...

MEXICO / UNITED STATES / CANADA: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is expected to travel to the White House tomorrow to celebrate the beginning of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement ...

RORAIMA, BRAZIL – The sun has barely risen as men and women leave their homes to make their way towards the maloca, a tall hut as large as an amphitheater. A single wooden column at the center holds ...

High-voltage towers, metal fences, and warning signs greet visitors as they enter the rural town of Charrúa, located nearly 500 kilometers south of Santiago, Chile’s capital. Here, a community made up ...

Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. GARDI SUGDUB, Panama — One last time, the Guna Indigenous people blow their seashells to bid farewell to their home of two centuries.

PUERTO RICO: Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced is officially under investigation for allegedly mismanaging relief supplies for victims of the December and January earthquakes. The Independent Special ...

HONDURAS: The Indigenous Garifuna community is fearful after a group of five men was kidnapped by unknown assailants this past weekend. The men, who are Afro-Indigenous and from the town Triunfo de la ...

This interview is republished from the North American Congress on Latin America. The March 2, 2016 assassination of venerated Honduran social movement leader Berta Cáceres sent shockwaves around the ...

On March 8, former Brazilian presidential candidate Fernando Haddad was at home, working on research, when he received a call from an aide of former president Luiz Inácio “Lula” Da Silva. The call ...

MANAGUA—The town bell rang out at 3 a.m. on Friday, February 28, in Santa Clara, a Miskito community in the northern Caribbean region of Nicaragua. As people woke up, they knew a bell at that hour ...

PHOENIX — The sun glared off the polished wood of a conference table in downtown Phoenix, but U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke — who was also at the table during SB1070’s court hearing as part of the ...

This article was originally published on Mongabay in English and Mongabay Latam in Spanish. For 20 years, the Colima fir tree (Abies colimensis) has been at the heart of many disputes to conserve the ...