Welcome to LAND’s podcast, RadioLAND, delivering the biggest news of the week in the hemisphere. You can also find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. Episode 18: Uruguay’s Left Loosens its ...

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 ...

UNITED STATES-CARIBBEAN: President Donald Trump said the United States is sending warships to the Caribbean to halt drug trafficking. Trump said it is an effort to “increase surveillance, disruption ...

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 ...

LAND is a publication run by NYU graduate students in the Global Journalism and Latin American and Caribbean studies programs. Mission: We are an online news media publication that reports on Latin ...

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 ...

The past two weeks have brought Paraguayans a political earthquake and a crowd of new household names, all connected to a bilateral energy deal signed with Brazil in May and kept under wraps until ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story was written by Javier Lyonnet for the October 2022 issue of EcoAméricas. Click here to see the original story. A eucalyptus-tree nursery in Uruguay operated by the Finnish ...

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 for his relatives and friends ...

A recent study released by Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) in Brazil shows that the income of Brazilian blacks increased over 40% between 1999 and 2009, compared to a 20% rise of whites’ wealth. However ...