Category: Andes
July 28, 2022 > Staff
Behind Bolivia’s Less Violent Cocaine Trade
By Linda Farthing and Thomas Grisaffi This article is co-published with NACLA. Lurching along cobbled roads in Bolivia’s Chapare region on his mud splattered motorbike, coca farmer Umberto Flores searched […] Read More >
February 25, 2022 > Cameron Oakes
Venezuelan migrants in Ireland grapple with the home they left behind
As a teen, Fabio Alexei Roselló Salazar dreamed of traveling the world. So when Roselló — the son of a school teacher and a cable company manager — went off […] Read More >
April 8, 2021 > Gabriela Barzallo
Movement Against Mining Gains Ground in Ecuador
In February elections, a referendum to protect water passed and left-wing candidates received strong support. Mining will be a key issue for the next president. This story is republished from NACLA. […] Read More >
April 5, 2021 > Thomas Power
What will happen to Cesar, Colombia when the mines leave?
Coal mines have caused environmental devastation to the Cesar department of Colombia. But now that the Swiss mining company Glencore announced that they will withdraw from the department, where they […] Read More >
March 15, 2021 > Tom Mullett
Venezuelan refugees in Colombia organize to streamline international aid
As a line of over 50 families waits alongside the multicolored fence of San Mateo park in the Soacha neighborhood of Bogotá, Maryluis Ruiz is undisturbed by the growing buzz […] Read More >
March 12, 2021 > Linda Farthing
Mixed Results for the MAS in Bolivia Regional Elections
This article is co-published with NACLA. Bolivians went to the polls on March 7, in regional elections postponed a year because of Covid-19. The governing MAS party, under the leadership […] Read More >
March 8, 2021 > Thomas Power
IDB-funded dam project in Colombia raises human rights concerns
Activists say the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is not following its own sustainability guidelines and performance standards in the case of Hidroituango, the largest hydroelectric dam in Colombia, in a […] Read More >
January 20, 2021 > Andrea Acosta
Bidding Trump farewell, Venezuelans in Florida reflect on a divisive four years
WESTON, Fla.—Back in October, Adelys Ferro remembers attending a rally held by then-candidate Joe Biden at Florida International University holding a sign that read “Obamacare Saved My Son.” A picture […] Read More >
December 2, 2020 > Susanne Schweitzer
Lockdown in Colombia Emboldened Violent Armed Groups
When Colombia imposed its national coronavirus lockdown in late March, some experts had predicted that the shutdown would limit crime and homicide in a country riddled by drug trafficking, large-scale […] Read More >
November 15, 2020 > Isabella Reimí
Venezuela’s “Revolving Door” of Political Prisoners
The story of Antonia Turbay’s arrest goes back to April 2002. She lived in La Florida, in Caracas, Venezuela. Her neighbor was Iván Simonovis, the then secretary of the police […] Read More >