A murmur of prayers fill the room where Father Melo leads the funeral of Juan López, 46, the latest environmental defender to ...

Daniel Fonseca is a Honduran journalist and columnist. He covers issues related to human rights, migration and the environment. He has coordinated a team of 44 reporters in 16 countries to investigate ...

El murmullo de oraciones llena el salón donde el padre Melo, preside el funeral de Juan López, el último defensor del ...

LAND thanks our generous donors who helped make our 2021 spring fundraiser a success! Tim Wilson, Julia Payson, Edwin Seda-Fernandez, Gabriela Sandoval Requena, David Woodworth, Alan Cassidy, Lucia ...

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 of anticipation. Instead, ...

This July, Dominicans elected opposition presidential candidate Luis Abinader, bidding farewell to 16 years of unbroken rule by the Caribbean nation’s center-left. Voters at home and abroad braved a ...

This article is re-published from The Conversation. Latin America is the world’s new coronavirus epicenter, but Uruguay – a small South American nation of 3.5 million people – has so far avoided the ...

The coronavirus pandemic has reached the Colombian Amazon, which only has two hospitals, with 68 beds and eight ventilators. The virus has already infected 903 people in the region. There are only 39 ...

Dead bodies are lying at home and in the streets of Guayaquil, Ecuador, a city so hard-hit by coronavirus that overfilled hospitals are turning away even very ill patients and funeral homes are ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stepped up his assault on Indigenous land rights last month, continuing a trend that started before his presidency and has accelerated since ...