A murmur of prayers fill the room where Father Melo leads the funeral of Juan López, 46, the latest environmental defender to be murdered in Honduras. Melo hangs his head and speaks at a slow but ...

El murmullo de oraciones llena el salón donde el padre Melo, preside el funeral de Juan López, el último defensor del medioambiente asesinado en Honduras. Melo, tiene la mirada baja, la voz pausada, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — José arrived in New York in July after only two months of planning his move. He is one of the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who recently escaped the country’s political and economic ...