The world’s largest rainforest is under assault by criminal groups. Seeking routes for drug trafficking and sites for illegal mining, these outfits are wreaking havoc on the environment and society. G...

In Nariño, guerrilla groups are swapping arms for legal mining as part of the country’s peace accord. But as presidential elections loom, armed rivals and delays threaten to derail progress

Even before the price of oil spiked, the Trump administration was eyeing Venezuela’s natural resources. There is now more urgency to getting access to petroleum and critical minerals. In this Q&A, Cri...

Incluso antes que precio del petróleo aumentara, la administración Trump ya tenía la mirada puesta en los recursos naturales de Venezuela. Ahora hay una mayor urgencia por acceder al petróleo y a los ...

How armed groups such as Comandos de la Frontera, FARC dissidents, Los Choneros and Los Lobos control the region.

The global clean energy transition, increased defense budgets and technological advancement, has created unprecedented demand for rare earth elements and critical minerals essential for electric vehic...

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Mientras avanza la competencia por los minerales críticos, la Amazonía está cada vez más amenazada. Estamos hablando de biodiversidad, seguridad, autodeterminación y derecho a la vida

Colombia’s armed and criminal groups have recruited hundreds of children into their ranks, inflicting enormous harm on minors, their families and communities. The government and international partners...

The global clean energy transition, increased defense budgets and technological advancement, has created unprecedented demand for rare earth elements and critical minerals essential for electric vehic...

The bombing campaign against alleged drug traffickers moving through the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, alongside joint military exercises between the United States and Trinidad and Tobago, has incr...

Guerrilla groups have seized control of mining areas, exploiting Indigenous people and fuelling environmental ruin on the border with Colombia

The global clean energy transition, increased defense budgets and technological advancement, has created unprecedented demand for rare earth elements and critical minerals essential for electric vehic...

La selva amazónica revela una cruda paradoja: mientras los países compiten por alcanzar sus objetivos de energía limpia y aumentan los presupuestos de defensa en medio de crecientes preocupaciones por...

I write these words as I walk through the forest alongside my Munduruku people, doing the work that the Brazilian State refuses to do. In this first week of July, men, women, and children formed yet a...

Four unmarked white pickup trucks race through a patchwork landscape of bright-green plantations, blasting through mud puddles on winding jungle roads. As the convoy rounds a sharp corner, it draws wo...

Cuatro camionetas blancas sin identificación corren por el paisaje verde brillante de las plantaciones, atravesando charcos en carreteras serpenteantes de la selva. Mientras el convoy toma una curva c...

La minería ilegal de oro está generando un daño cada vez mayor en el sur de Venezuela, a su delicado ecosistema y a su población. Frenar este daño es responsabilidad del gobierno de Caracas. Los gobie...

Illegal gold mining is doing growing damage to southern Venezuela, its delicate ecosystem and its people. Curbing this harm is up to the government in Caracas. Foreign capitals should use whatever mea...

La minería ilegal de oro está generando un daño cada vez mayor en el sur de Venezuela, a su delicado ecosistema y a su población. Frenar este daño es responsabilidad del gobierno de Caracas. Los gobie...

One year since dictator Nicolás Maduro defied the will of the Venezuelan people by baselessly declaring himself the winner, the United States remains firm in its unwavering support to Venezuela’s rest...

En el extremo este de Venezuela, en la ruta fluvial a la desembocadura del Orinoco, se mueven decenas de hombres —uniformados y armados— identificados por la comunidad como disidentes de las Fuerzas A...

La creciente tensión entre Venezuela y Guyana por la disputada región del Esequibo ha reavivado los temores de un conflicto fronterizo entre ambos países. En esta sesión de preguntas y respuestas, el ...

Former president is charged by attorney general following police report that accused him of organising a conspiracy to stop Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva taking power.

After finding refuge and building power in Venezuela, a decades-old rebel group has waged the worst violence in Colombia in a generation, setting off troubling regional tensions.

The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver a major blow to efforts including humanitarian assistance in Colombia, conservation efforts in Brazil and coca eradication...

The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver a major blow to efforts including humanitarian assistance in Colombia, conservation efforts in Brazil and coca eradication...

Mercury left behind by wildcat miners polluted areas of northern Colombia. Restoring them to health depends on a surprisingly low-tech solution.

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Crime and corruption in the shadows of the world's largest rainforest

In an interview with NBC News, Homan also acknowledged that people without criminal records may get caught up as "collateral arrests" in mass deportation raids.

The Amazon rainforest staggered through another difficult year in 2024. A second year of record drought contributed to wildfires that worsened deforestation across the massive forest, which spans Braz...

Interpol says a crackdown on suspected illegal deforestation in South America has netted 26 arrests.

The PCC is taking over illegal gold mining in the Amazon and corrupting Indigenous cultures in a spiral of violence in some of Brazil’s most remote regions.

En un escenario de crisis climática y de pérdida de la biodiversidad en la selva amazónica, especialistas y comunidades de la región buscan soluciones que frenen el crimen organizado y la destrucción ...

En un escenario de crisis climática y de pérdida de la biodiversidad en la selva amazónica, especialistas y comunidades de la región buscan soluciones que frenen el crimen organizado y la destrucción ...

El cultivo ilícito de coca ha alimentado la degradación medioambiental y la violencia en la Amazonía colombiana. Ahora, algunos lugareños apuestan por un futuro más limpio y ecológico

Este fin de semana se desarrolló una reunión entre comunidades, Gobierno y delegados del EMB para analizar salidas a la deforestación.