Brazil: Garimpeiros ‘clutter’ with illegal rafts an Amazon river in search of gold

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An axolotl in Venezuela? The story behind a critically endangered animal that was abandoned in a church

The axolotl "is one of the most impressive, wonderful and strange animals on the planet", because it is an amphibian that does not metamorphose.

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Colombia: The unprecedented crisis in the port of Barranquilla that could generate «incalculable» losses

The port of Barranquilla, one of the most important in Colombia, is going through an unprecedented crisis because its depth is at a critical historical level, which affects its operation, generates incalculable losses and has prevented the departure of four ships

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Peru: The announcement that provoked the ire of an English mining company that refuses to leave the gold of Ayacucho

The head of the Cabinet, Mirtha Vásquez, confirmed that the closure of several companies in the sector that have been responsible for the contamination of the headwaters of the rivers in that area, would be carried out.

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Argentina: Who killed Lucas González? the young footballer that the media labeled a «thief»

Institutional violence is an epidemic that has never been eradicated from Latin America. In Argentina in particular, the manipulation of the crime scene and of the victims or witnesses is well known.

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Venezuela: The Chavismo wins the majority of the mayors and governors in `mega-elections´

The Venezuelan states of Barinas and Apure have yet to be defined. The CNE is counting every vote that has yet to be counted.

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Ecuador and the town of ‘Agua Blanca’, an ancestral place of sulphurous waters

Every year, this ancestral South American community in Ecuador receives around 16,000 tourists, both national and foreign.

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Venezuela: How does the new economic dynamic work just before the beginning of Christmas?

In Venezuela, the population faces a new economic, political and social reality, in the midst of an atmosphere of hope that has not been perceived for years and that coincides with the arrival of Christmas, the regional elections of November 21 and the total flexibility of the quarantine against the covid-19 pandemic, while the vaccination […]

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Colombia: Why are 10 young people who led the protests against Duque considered «a danger to society» and sent to jail?

In the social networks, Internet users in Colombia have referred to the precarious situation of the young people who took to the streets to protest and the police violence against them

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Pharmaceuticals in the US aggravate the crisis of addiction and deaths by opioids

Almost half a million Americans have died because of opioid abuse since 2001 and pharmaceuticals are very responsible.

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