‘We count every litre’: how Cuba’s energy crisis sparked a daily struggle for water
In the cramped kitchen of her flat in Havana’s Chinatown, Mirella Martínez pushes an old metal trolley stacked with empty jerrycans. Wiping the sweat from her forehead, she fans herself …
The Guardian
How English-speaking Colombian islands have been caught up in Trump’s ‘drug war’ airstrikes
Officially, the islands of San Andrés and Providence belong to Colombia – but the language spoken by most of the local Afro-descendant population is not Spanish. Walking among brightly painted …
The Guardian
No basic services and nowhere to go: How these Venezuelans are living a month after the earthquakes
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela — A month has passed since earthquakes shook Venezuela and killed thousands, but in the state of La Guaira the old way of life feels like a …
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Masked men invading and taking Amazon communities ‘hostage’ in organised crime surge, say local leaders
Indigenous leaders on the Brazilian-Peruvian border have said their communities are being “taken hostage” by organised crime groups who are running rampant across the region, destroying rainforest, building roads and …
The Guardian
A model Indigenous territory in Brazil's Amazon seeks protection from criminal gangs
SAO PAULO -- The Ashaninka Indigenous people — who recovered their territory in the Brazilian border with Peru from settlers three decades ago, established and sustained their own governance, and …
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