Science, Tech & Environment
GlobalPost
January 16, 2016
The levels of UV rays in some areas of South America are soaring. People are being warned to just stay indoors between the peak hours of around 10 am and 4 pm. In Bolivia, there is even a law requiring parents to send their kids to school with a hat. Yet with many, in Peru and Bolivia particularly, living both directly from the land and below the poverty line, the message may not be getting through.
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Business, Economics and Jobs
A third of Argentina is poor. That's not what the government used to say.
GlobalPost
September 30, 2016
Former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner had boasted that Argentina's poverty rate was one of the lowest in the world, "below 5 percent." Turns out, it's over 30 percent.
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Lifestyle & Belief
Why Pope Francis is 'throwing down a gauntlet' on environmental destruction
Living on Earth
July 25, 2014
Pope Francis has already called attention to poverty and inequality, and he's now calling Catholics to pay more notice to the environment. In doing so, he could change not only policy but the way that people view sin and responsibility.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Why some Latin Americans are naming their children ‘Onur’ and ‘Sherezade'
Global Voices Online
May 25, 2015
Soap operas open new windows into our increasingly global world. For example, Latin America is a prolific producer — and consumer — of soap operas. But now it's important soap operas from abroad, too. Including from Turkey.
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Arts, Culture & Media
In Canada, a multicultural chef puts his complex history on every plate
PRI's The World
January 22, 2014
Chef Antonio Park is of Korean heritage, grew up in Latin America, went to culinary school in Japan and has been living in the Canadian province of Quebec for more than two decades. His specialty is fish, and the fare at his Park Restaurant in Montreal is billed as Japanese, but the flavors are utterly original.
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Politics
A political shakeup is underway at the southern tip of the Americas
PRI's The World
November 23, 2015
It's out with the old ruling party in Argentina. Voters Sunday placed chose a new president, the business-friendly opposition candidate named Mauricio Macri.
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Politics
Argentina's outgoing president has refused to give up her official Twitter account
GlobalPost
December 25, 2015
Updated
Argentina's former president has a new occupation: Twitter troll. Twitter had to unverify her.
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Science, Tech & Environment
Did a group of photo-taking tourists really kill an endangered dolphin in Argentina?
PRI's The World
February 18, 2016
A Franciscan dolphin was left dead on a Buenos Aires beach, but wildlife authorities don't know if it was already dead when a large group of tourists found it and crowded it to take photos.
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Politics
The plot thickens in the case of Argentina's slain prosecutor
PRI's The World
January 21, 2015
Updated
The investigation in Argentina into the death of a special prosecutor who had said the nation's president was protecting the masterminds of the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people. A new prosecutor has been appointed.
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Conflict & Justice
The 'Spotlight' abuse scandal didn’t end in Boston. In South America, it’s still unfolding.
PRI's The World
March 01, 2016
GlobalPost tracked down alleged predator priests who were reassigned in the Americas. Now, a fifth priest has left his jobs.
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Conflict & Justice
Argentine protester's disappearance reminiscent of the country's years of dictatorship
Agence France-Presse
September 02, 2017
Campaign groups say, Santiago Maldonado, 27, was detained by state forces on Aug. 1 after joining in a protest march by the Mapuche indigenous group.