The Americas

A manifesto for Latino America

How a Colombian newspaper reported Bad Bunny’s historic Super Bowl performance Last Sunday, Bad Bunny performed at the Super Bowl. In a country pushed to the limit with the persecution...

Where stars are made

How decorative star-shaped piñatas sustain livelihoods and ritual life in Mexico In this reported piece for Contralínea, journalist Fernanda Monroy takes us into the family workshops and neighbourhood markets of Mexico...

Marijuana in Paraguay

How an illegal plant has acquired meaning as medicine, income, and a symbol of civil disobedience in a country where the law lags behind lived reality In this well reported...

The quinoa bubble

For a moment the global quinoa boom enriched Bolivian farmers before collapsing into overproduction, environmental damage, and economic hardship For thousands of years, wind has carried salt from the Bolivian...

A new era of espionage dawns in Brazil

A massive data leak has revealed the widespread use of spyware app Cellular 007, originally marketed as a parental control tool Reporting from Rio de Janeiro, Allan de Arbreu reveals...

Remaining barbaric

How personal darkness becomes a theory of class, race and aesthetic rebellion In this reflective essay for Mexican publication Revista de la Universidad, Dahlia de la Cerda traces her journey from...

Indonesia’s nickel frontier

How a global green boom is rearranging lives, land and power In this sweeping investigation for Mongabay, journalist Irfan Maulana traces the human cost and political stakes of Indonesia’s nickel rush,...

Beauty and martyrdom

How aesthetic pressure sickens and isolates gay men In Diadorim, journalist Marie Declercq delivers an exploration into the tyranny of beauty within gay male culture ranging from Renaissance paintings to filtered...

Guadalajara: The shifting hearbeat of Mexico’s neighborhoods

The scent of barbacoa mingles with the glow of nomad laptops. As foreign dollars flood the streets, a vibrant kaleidoscope of Mexican tradition faces its quiet demolition....

War and Faith

The Strongest Drug A video from August 2020 on the YouTube channel of the missionary Nilton Pereira shows the evangelical preacher holding a bible in his hands. He is wearing a...

Volkswagen Slave labour at Amazon cattle Ranch

In one of Brazil's most severe human rights cases, Volkswagen stands accused of luring hundreds of rural workers into brutal slavery between 1974 and 1986. Facing allegations, the automaker must...

Looking beyond El Ramillete

Mexico’s invisible workforce and the cycle of exploitation that feeds the country’s agricultural boom In this article for the Mexican digital platform PopLab.mx, Yajaira Gasca Ramírez reports on a government raid...

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