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Living Earth, the indigenous name of Latin America
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In the spirit of Martí and native peoples, ABYA YALA is a collection of everything related to Our América, living earth that begins at Río Bravo and ends at Tierra del Fuego, including the Caribbean islands, not forgetting the First Nations of Northern America.
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Devices draining the desert: how demand for electric cars and smartphones is drying up the Atacama desert in Chile
Nikolaj Houmann Mortensen
Lithium is essential for the batteries in our phones, our computers and the skyrocketing number of electric vehicles that are often seen as playing a key role in the green energy transition
With half the world’s lithium reserves, Chile has ...
What failed in Venezuela, succeeded in Bolivia: the playbook was the same
Marco Teruggi
The different steps followed by the coup d’état in Bolivia can be matched with what the right wing is desperately trying to pull off in Venezuela. Both processes have unfolded according to what appears to be a similar playbook. An analysis ...
Open letter to Luis Almagro
Jorge Majfud
Mr. Luis Almagro, Secretary of the Organization of American States:
Considering Your repeated failures and Your even more insistent abuses of functions as "Secretary" of the States, we ask You to do well and for the little honour that You ...
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An unholy alliance
- Sandra Weiss
Across Latin America, the military's gaining power and moving into politics – with support of ...
Released Lula in for greatest fight of his life
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Better not mess with the former Brazilian president; Putin and Xi are his real top allies in the Global ...
Stalking the endangered wax palm in Colombia
- Jennie Erin Smith
Colombia’s national tree, the wax palm, is endangered. Now, with decades of guerrilla war in retreat, ...
Illegal loggers kill Brazilian indigenous forest guardian, wound another in ambush
- Brasil de Fato
“Bolsonaro government has indigenous blood on their hands,” pan-indigenous association APIB ...
Burn, Neoliberalism, Burn
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Neoliberalism is – literally – burning. And from Ecuador to Chile, South America, once again, ...
Bolivia at crossroads – Choosing between continued success or handover to US hegemony
- Peter Koenig
“I don’t want to be the best President in the history of Bolivia, I want to be the President ...
Lenín versus Lenin in Ecuador
- Carlos Aznárez
Insurrection has always been a weapon of the humble people — the revolutionary Franz Fanon's “ ...
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