Criminal Groups Drive Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon State, Authorities Say
Brazil’s Mato Grosso state lost almost 50,000 hectares to illegal logging in one year, data shows. Criminal groups were...
Latin America
From Lima to Buenos Aires to Madrid, Millions of Phones Buzzed the Night Maduro Fell
Across Venezuela and beyond, phones buzzed and pinged through the night with live updates, eyewitness reports, rumors, and...
Dispatch No Safe Harbor: Venezuelan Fishing Towns At the Mercy of Trump and Maduro
In Venezuela’s downtrodden fishing towns, locals are squeezed between a growing U.S. military presence off the coast and...
Paraguay Banks Pledging Sustainability Financed Companies Owned By Businessman With Record of Environmental Crime
Loan documents show two Paraguayan banks loaned tens of millions of dollars to firms owned by Ulisses Rodrigues Teixeira, a...
Human Rights Watch: Ecuador Freezes Bank Accounts of Indigenous, Environmental Groups
Ecuadorian Indigenous and environmental groups see bank accounts frozen as authorities cite anti-money-laundering laws,...
The Crime Messenger: How Sky ECC Phones Became a Tool of the Criminal Trade
Cocaine and Bananas: How Balkan Traffickers Used Fruit Shipments From the Ecuadorian President's Family Firm to Smuggle Drugs
Shipping containers sent by Noboa Trading Co. have been caught up in huge drug shipments sent from Ecuador to the Balkans....
Mexico’s Attorney General Resigns Amid Scrutiny and Ambassadorship Offer
The Senate accepted Alejandro Gertz Manero’s early resignation despite opposition claims that a diplomatic posting doesn’t...
Peru Jails Ex-President Vizcarra After 14-Years Corruption Sentence
A court found the ex-president took more than $600,000 in bribes, ordering prison time, fines and a ban on office as Peru’s...
Cheers Above, Torture Below: The Dark Revival of Venezuelan Basketball
In Venezuela, a new basketball league is playing games in a stadium that sits directly atop an infamous political prison — a...
News Exclusive Brazilian Billionaire Chairs Group at COP30 as His Company Faces Environmental Civil Suit
As Brazilian building magnate Rubens Menin talks sustainability on the sidelines of the UN climate conference this week, his...