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Topic: South America

US President Donald Trump speaks during the "Shield of the Americas" Summit at Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida, March 7, 2026. (Photo by Saul Loeb/Getty Images)

Trump makes "giant mess" in Ecuador

Garrett Owen
Venezuelan fishermen take precautions in response to U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean, Sept. 24, 2025. (Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's war on reality gets weirder

Andrew O'Hehir
Capybaras eat grass next to a street in a gated community in Tigre, Buenos Aires province, on August 27, 2021. (MAGALI CERVANTES/AFP via Getty Images)

Capybaras: Symbol of green resistance

Nikolas Kozloff
Grandmother and grandchild walking hand in hand (Getty Images/Doable)

Growing up as a white, "no sabo kid"

Gabriella Ferrigine
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Petrified tree trunks beside the rio Manati near Iquitos, Peru (iStock/Getty Images)

Secrets of Peru's petrified forest

Herb Meyer, Deborah Woodcock - The Conversation
Elon Musk (AP/Stephan Savoia)

Elon Musk, the lithium neo-conquistador

Vijay Prashad, Alejandro Bejarano - Independent Media Institute
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Pesticides killing off the Andean condor

John R. Platt - The Revelator
View of the "Christ of the Pacific" statue atop a hill in Lima, on July 15, 2019. The giant statute of Jesus Christ that looms large over Lima has caused controversy in Peru because of its financing by the graft-tainted Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht and late ex-president Alan Garcia. (Cris Bouroncle/AFP via Getty Images)

Israelitas: from fringe to mainstream

Matthew Peter Casey - The Conversation
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With student demonstrations the national strike begins in the city of Bogota, Colombia, on 16 January 2020. (Diego Cuevas/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Protests against austerity & endless war

Justin Podur - Independent Media Institute
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and he First President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Evo Morales (Getty Images/Salon)

Media: Now we want a Venezuela coup

Joshua Cho - FAIR
Thousands of people from the opposition celebrate after President of Bolivia Evo Morales announced his resignation in La Paz, Bolivia on November 10, 2019. Bolivian President Evo Morales resigned, shortly after the head of the countrys armed forces called on him to step down. (Marcelo Perez Del Carpio/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Was Bolivia's election really flawed?

Gregory Shupak - FAIR
Demonstrators who support the opposition presidential candidate Mesa run to supporters of the current head of state Morales in a protest. Election observers from the Organization of American States (OAS) had recommended that the president, who had been in office since 2006, allow a run-off election. (Gaton Brito/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Why the Bolivia coup is not a coup

Alan MacLeod - FAIR
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Bolivia's President Evo Morales (AP Photo/Juan Karita) (AP)

Socialist prez forced out in Bolivia

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Rising up against neoliberalism

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies - Independent Media Institute
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is surrounded by reporters as she arrives to meet with her caucus the morning after declaring she will launch a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lessons from Latin America

Rachel E. Bowen - The Conversation
A United Nation observer shakes hands with a rebel of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, before a meeting in La Carmelita near Puerto Asis in Colombia's southwestern state of Putumayo,Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Thousands of leftist rebels are taking an important step in Colombia’s peace process by providing to UN observers an inventory of the weaponry they will soon surrender. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) (AP)

Colombia’s peace process under stress

Catesby Holmes - The Conversation
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Firefighters light backfires as they try to contain the Thomas wildfire which continues to burn in Ojai, California on December 9, 2017. Brutal winds that fueled southern California's firestorm finally began to ease Saturday, giving residents and firefighters hope for respite as the destructive toll of multiple blazes came into focus. / AFP PHOTO / MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

It’s not just the Amazon that’s ablaze

Claire F.R. Wordley - The Conversation
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Brazil's love affair with Confederacy

Jordan Brasher - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Trump's foreign political relations

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
Central American migrants walking to the U.S. start their day departing Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018. (Getty/AP/Salon)

"Fox & Friends'" caravan lies

Brad Reed - Raw Story
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(AP Photo/Luiz Vasconcelos, Interfoto, File)

Regulation made farmers more productive

Rachael Garrett - The Conversation
(AP/Jacquelyn Martin))

Finding opportunity in crisis

Marco Aponte-Moreno - The Conversation
(AP/Achmad Ibrahim)

Invasive species can shape rainforests

Cassie Freund
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Female researchers often harassed

Carinya Sharples - Mongabay
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