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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 25/08/2025
Why are young people sympathizing with the far right? 🤔 📲Rebelliousness, precariousness, and social media are equal parts of a cocktail that is more prone to Milei or Bukele than to the traditional left.  More here 👇🏼
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Has the Right Captivated Latin American Youth?
In a subcontinent with structural inequality and weakened democracies, young people in several countries have become more conservative. This turn to the right puts a dent in Latin America’s progressive tradition, and paves the way for extremes.
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 24/08/2025
Rafael Arce, the son of President Luis Arce, purchased a property called "Adán y Eva", located in a protected area, asking for a 3️⃣-million dollar loan.  At 25, how did he do it? 🤔💰 Find out here⬇️ www.connectas.org/especiales/tierra…
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 23/08/2025
🗳️ Bolivia is getting ready to put a 20-year era behind. Two decades of Evismo come to an end. Among threats and tensions, will the country hold a peaceful election? 🤔 ✍🏼By: Susana López, member of the #CONNECTASHub More here.
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Evo’s Overextended Goodbye
It seems that this 20-year-long chapter in history will come to an end on August 17
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 22/08/2025
🔎From Mexico to Chile, narcos have infiltrated power: they bought off militaries, fund campaigns, and control institutions.  “Silver or lead” is not just a threat, it became a regional strategy. #WeNeedToTalk.👇🏽
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Narcos Infiltrate Governments with Guns and Bribes
How far are the continent’s governments infiltrated by narcos?
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 22/08/2025
#TerritoryCONNECTAS | Ecuador 🇪🇨 has toughened the penalties for minors in criminal groups, but not for their recruiters. Does it make sense to focus on punishing children who are its victims? ✍🏼 By Alina Manrique, member of #CONNECTASHub.🔎🔽 www.connectas.org/childhood-ec...
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Childhood Under Suspicion
Does it make sense to focus on punishing children who are its victims?
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 15/07/2025
#LaHoraDeVenezuela | This is how the secret network of Maduro's communications offensive operates. An unprecedented leak reveals how SISCOM (an app of the Ministry of Communications) disseminates digital propaganda.📲 Read it here: ⬇️ www.connectas.org/asifunciona-...
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 08/07/2025
#LaHoraDeVenezuela 🇻🇪 | More than half of the 238 people deported by the U.S. 🇺🇸 to #ElSalvador 🇸🇻 had no criminal record. Homeland Security records show they had only migration violations, and still they were labeled as terrorists. The text here.👇🏽 www.connectas.org/venezuelans-...
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Most Venezuelans Sent to El Salvador Had No Criminal Convictions
Read more at #LaHoraDeVenezuela
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 07/07/2025
🕊️ Latin America: An oasis of peace in a world on fire? While Israel and Iran attack each other, and Ukraine remains at war, our region is unusually calm. Can we stay in the fringes of the current global turmoil? Learn more here: #WeNeedToTalk .⬇️ www.connectas.org/the-odd-lati...
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The Odd Latin American Peace in a World at War
Latin America appears to be an oasis of peace on the world
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 27/06/2025
While Putin and Trump encourage having more babies, Latin America struggles with increased teenage pregnancy rates. 🍼🤰🏼 An outlier in the global context? We delve into this demographic paradox and its consequences in this piece of #WeNeedToTalk. ⬇️ www.connectas.org/while-putin-...
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Latin America Faces a Teenage Pregnancy Crisis
While Putin and Trump Offer Cash to Have Babies
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EFE Noticias @efe.com · 18/06/2025
#PREMIOSREYDEESPAÑA | Premio de PERIODISMO DE COOPERACIÓN INTERNACIONAL Y ACCIÓN HUMANITARIA a Carlos Eduardo Huertas de @connectas.org y 15 medios de Venezuela: alianza Venezuela Vota y #LahoradeVenezuela por el trabajo: “Operación Retuit”.   🔴📡 En directo: www.youtube.com/live/fY062bZf0Qo
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 19/06/2025
#WeNeedToTalk | ⛽ Venezuela on the spotlight: Chevron sparks a battle between the industry's interests and ideology in Washington. While Grenell is team business, Rubio insists on putting pressure on Maduro. What will the U.S. do? 🔍⬇️ www.connectas.org/why-chevron-...
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Why Chevron in Venezuela Turned into Washington’s Dilemma
The rapprochement between China and Latin America, and Washington's reaction
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 17/06/2025
🌍 Globalism became the new invisible enemy. Leaders such as Trump, Milei, and Bukele use this term to justify their war against NGOs, journalists, and academics. What's behind this battle? Read our #WeNeedToTalk 👇🏽 www.connectas.org/globalism-th...
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Globalism, the Enemy of the New Right-Wing’s “Cultural Battle”
The “Global elite” conspiring against the West.
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The Centre for Investigative Journalism @tcij.org · 17/06/2025
✍️Happening this Thursday! Our LATAM #OCRI partner @connectas.org is hosting a webinar to share tips and tricks of reporting the #ClimateCrisis from a cross-border and collaborative perspective using data. For more details and to participate for free 👇 tcij.org/ocri-course/...
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 16/06/2025
In Ecuador 🇪🇨, disappearances of children and teenagers skyrocketed in 2024, after the first year of militarization of the country. Forced recruitment and trafficking for sexual exploitation are among the reasons. #LostChildren 👦🏽👧🏽 Delve into the investigation here www.connectas.org/missing-chil...
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Missing Children Missing in Ecuador's Internal War
In the first year of the armed conflict, disappearances of minors in Ecuador increased by 88%
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 13/06/2025
#GangleaderOnTheLoose |⛓ The gang leader known as "Charly" was arrested and released in this State of Exception in El Salvador. 🚨Today, he is hiding abroad. His partner worked for Bukele and attended political events with him. Discover more here:👇🏽 www.connectas.org/the-gang-lea...
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The Gang Leader that Bukele’s Government Let Escape
Alias Charly managed to avoid jail time for one case of murder and 46 extortions
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 12/06/2025
🚜💰 The cost of excavators ravaging the Amazon in Ecuador ranges between 100 and 300 thousand dollars. 🇪🇨 They are sold without controls. The consequences? More than 1,400 hectares of jungle devastated in Napo. Discover more in #LawlessExcavators. 🔎⬇️ www.connectas.org/lawless-fore...
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Lawless and Forestless
The Dreamland of Illegal Mining’s Excavators in the Amazon
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The Centre for Investigative Journalism @tcij.org · 04/06/2025
Migration due to the impact of #climatechange is not a myth! According to the World Bank's 2018 and 2021 Groundswell reports, Latin America could see 17 million internal climate migrants by 2050! This story is another #OCRI exclusive led by @connectas.org Read⤵️ www.connectas.org/especiales/m...
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Migrantes del mar, el sol y la lluvia
Habitantes de pequeñas comunidades del norte de Centroamérica están migrando dentro y fuera de sus países tras la pérdida de sus viviendas, negocios y cosechas.
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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 06/06/2025
📚 GIJN's Stories of the Week • @connectas.org sheds light on the Bolivian president’s son's alleged abuse of power. • @washingtonpost.com revealed how police in New Orleans secretly used live facial recognition tech. More: twp.ai/9PSE8B
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 03/06/2025
Did you know bugs of the Ecuadorian Amazon are traded in an international black market? 🇪🇨🤔 Beetles, butterflies, and tarantulas end up in collectors' display cases in #USA 🇺🇸, Europe 🇪🇺, and Asia. #BugsOfGold 🦋🪲🕷️ Read the investigation here.⬇️ www.connectas.org/especiales/b...
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The Fix Media @thefixmedia.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
La Chama and El Pana, two AI avatars with slight Venezuelan accents, are the faces of Operación Retuit, an initiative launched last summer after the controversial victory of Nicolas Maduro in the Venezuelan presidential elections.
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The Centre for Investigative Journalism @tcij.org · 30/05/2025
📢A LATAM cross-border collaboration led by @connectas.org as part of our Open Climate Reporting Initiative #OCRI ! A spike in dengue-related cases led to 826 preventable deaths in Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras due to the effects of #climatechange in 2024! Read⤵️ www.connectas.org/especiales/d...
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El dengue explota las bajas defensas de los gobiernos
En 2024 los casos y muertes por dengue aumentaron en América Latina, entre otras causas, por el cambio climático.
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 30/05/2025
#WeNeedToTalk | In #LatinAmerica, several presidents are claiming that dark forces are behind “soft coups” or conspiracies against them. For what purpose are they using this confrontational rhetoric? ⬇️
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Political Paranoia
What do the region's leaders intend with this conspiracy rhetoric?
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 30/05/2025
#WeNeedToTalk | It is a fact: Influencers have overshadowed media outlets for a while now.  Their presence in politics is undeniable nowadays, which bears asking: To what extent are they instruments of propaganda?🤔 Our analysis.🔎👉🏽
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Influencers’ Unstoppable Political Power
Influencers shape politics—propaganda or threat to democracy?
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 29/05/2025
The humanitarian drama in Haiti 🇭🇹 appears to be endless. The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere keeps sinking into violence. How far will the world’s indifference to this drama last? #WeNeedToTalk. Read it here.👇🏽
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Haiti: The Silent Cries of the Street
How far will the world's indifference go in the face of this drama?
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 29/05/2025
In the G20, Lula Da Silva proposed a tax of 2% on the super-rich, he estimates the move could collect $250 billion to fight against global poverty and hunger. 💸🌍 What can be done about poverty in #LatinaAmerica?
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Two Ideas to Beat Poverty
To what extent can it affect a yearslong issue?
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 28/05/2025
#WeNeedToTalk | Washington’s 🇺🇸 policies are pushing the anti-woke agenda forward in the continent. Hard-earned rights conquered in multiple fronts are under threat. Read here. ⬇️
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Trump vs. Human Rights
Its Repercussion in the Continent
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 28/05/2025
#WeNeedToTalk | Donald Trump cut USAID funding and its effects are already being felt in Latin America. 🌎💸 Thousands of immigrants won't have access to shelters, food, and counsel. 👣 📌 What are the implications? Let us tell you. www.connectas.org/shelterless-...
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Shelterless Migrants: Trump’s Other Crisis
How is migration reconfigured in this new era?
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 27/05/2025
#TerritoryCONNECTAS | For years, Panama was the bridge used by migrants to get to the United States. Nevertheless, nowadays it is taking the Trump administration's foreign deportees. Will the crisis get worse? 🇵🇦 🔍 More here: www.connectas.org/a-new-hell-i...
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A New Hell in the Isthmus
Migrants in Panama face a humanitarian and political limbo.
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IPS Agencia de Noticias @ipsnoticias.net · 23/05/2025
El dengue explota en América Latina: 12 millones de casos, casi 3 veces el récord de 2023 y 7700 muertes en 2024, la epidemia más grande desde que comenzaron los registros. De Viatori, Criteriohn, @poplab.bsky.social , @periodistagodoy.bsky.social y @connectas.org ipsnoticias.net/2025/05/deng...
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Dengue explota las bajas defensas de gobiernos de México y América Central
MÉXICO – Para Suyapa Aguilera, hondureña de 49 años, “la lucha contra el dengue es una batalla diaria”, pues ha afectado a casi todos los miembros de su familia, especialmente a los niños. En su casa,...
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 21/05/2025
Independent journalism needs your support to continue reporting with rigour and courage. 📢 Get involved, support #CONNECTAS and hundreds of journalists in Latin America. ✍🏽💡 #InvaluableJournalism 🔗 Get involved ⬇️ www.connectas.org/about-us/get...
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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 19/05/2025
Terranexus En Durán Tierra De Nadie & @connectas.org employed courageous reporting and solid data journalism techniques to expose a hidden land trafficking scheme that has given criminal gangs control of large portions of Ecuador’s coastal city of Durán. twp.ai/4ink8U
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 15/05/2025
Is the rush for rare earth elements in Latin America an opportunity or a threat? ⛏ With superpowers such as the U.S. and China eyeing resources, is it possible to protect our sovereignty? 💸
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The Rush for Rare Earth Elements that has the World Checking the Periodic Table
The existence of rare earth elements in several countries in Latin America poses more questions than answers.
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 15/05/2025
While Putin and Trump encourage having more babies, Latin America struggles with increased teenage pregnancy rates. 🍼🤰🏼 An outlier in the global context? #WeNeedToTalk. ⬇️
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Latin America Faces a Teenage Pregnancy Crisis
While Putin and Trump Offer Cash to Have Babies
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 14/05/2025
Independent journalism needs your support to continue reporting with rigour and courage. 📢 Get involved, support #CONNECTAS and hundreds of journalists in Latin America. ✍🏽💡 #InvaluableJournalism 🔗 Get involved ⬇️ www.connectas.org/about-us/get...
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 14/05/2025
#WeNeedToTalk | Trump holds a tight grip on foreign policy, thus Rubio's role is quite discreet. 🌎🔍 What is the real reach of the first Hispanic secretary of state? 🇺🇸 Our analysis here. 👇🏻
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Rubio: An Accommodating Secretary
Rubio has overseen the State Department for 100 days in Trump’s administration
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 13/05/2025
While Putin and Trump encourage having more babies, Latin America struggles with increased teenage pregnancy rates. 🍼🤰🏼 An outlier in the global context? ⬇️
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Latin America Faces a Teenage Pregnancy Crisis
While Putin and Trump Offer Cash to Have Babies
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 13/05/2025
🚔🔍The arrest of eight mayors in Zulia state sparks controversy. Diosdado Cabello claims it is a move against corruption, but others suggest he is consolidating his own power. What's at stake? #LaHoraDeVenezuela 🇻🇪 ⤵️
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Diosdado Wants to Conquer Zulia with an Anti-Drug Purge
Cabello is sending several mayors to prison on drug trafficking allegations
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 12/05/2025
🗳 Now that he has been reelected in power, Daniel Noboa will consolidate his approach to against crime in Ecuador. 🇪🇨 What are some of the challenges that will arise in his new term? 🤔  ⬇️ Read it here:
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Noboa in Ecuador: Fighting Violence with More Violence
Daniel Noboa will consolidate his iron fist against crime
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 12/05/2025
🇻🇪⚖️🇬🇾 What's behind the conflict for the Essequibo Region? Riches in the form of oil and mining, and a tense geopolitical situation aggravate the row between Venezuela and Guyana. Is a war on the horizon?  #LaHoraDeVenezuela.🔍⤵️
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What is the Value of the Essequibo Region?
What are the Chances of a War over it?
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 12/05/2025
🇺🇸💥 “Tariff, baby, tariff” Trump unleashes an unprecedented tariff war. 📉 Will the new protectionism in the #US teeter the global economy? Is there a major recession on its way? #WeNeedToTalk. Click here to read the analysis. 👇🏼 www.connectas.org/tariffs-lati...
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Adolescence behind Closed Doors
What’s it like to be an adolescent in Latin America?
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 05/05/2025
#WeNeedToTalk | 🇻🇪 Nicolás Maduro started a new presidential term despite having lost the 2024 election. 🗳 Based on laws to squash the opposition, he is determined to take out everyone who dares question his power.  Read about it hereí:
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Maduro, Quashing With Blood and Fire
Never before has a presidential inauguration driven such levels of expectation
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 05/05/2025
In Guatemala, sexual exploitation of teenagers is planned from inside prisons. 🇬🇹 🚨Authorities are investigating the cases of 12 underage children who were recruited for prostitution in the last eight years. ⬇️ Read the investigation here.
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Rape behind Bars in Guatemala
Sexual exploitation of teenagers is planned from inside prisons
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 05/05/2025
#WeNeedToTalk | The crisis in the Colombian region of Catatumbo, with tens of casualties and thousands of displaced people, has shocked #LatinAmerica. 🇨🇴🚨 How can this complex outlook be explained? 🤔 ✍🏽 The analysis here. ⤵️ www.connectas.org/catatumbo-be...
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Catatumbo beyond Colombia: SOS Venezuela?
The crisis in the Colombian region of Catatumbo has shocked Latin America
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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 25/04/2025
📚 GIJN's Stories of the Week • @connectas.org investigates an increase in missing minors in Ecuador. • Systema examines how Russian prisoners are recruited to fight in Ukraine. • @indiaspend.com dug deeper into bird smuggling in 3 Indian cities. twp.ai/9PR2uJ
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 23/04/2025
🏭 Mineral processing plants that process the gold at artisanal and small-scale mining (ASGM) have become an easy target for criminal gangs. Extortion, threats, and murders are now part of their day-to-day operation. #GoldExtortion Read this feature here.👇🏽 www.connectas.org/mineral-proc...
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Mineral Processing Plants
The Overlooked Link of Illegal Gold
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 22/04/2025
🖥 Register for this event of the VII Foundation about how Latin American journalism has resisted authoritarianism, with the participation of CONNECTAS. 🗓 April 24 at 12:00 p. m. (EST time zone) 🇺🇸 📝 Click here to get your spot! theviifoundation.org/event/how-is...
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 21/04/2025
#WeNeedToTalk | Izaguirre Ranch in Teuchitlan, a massive extermination and recruitment center, is the cruelest reality of drug violence in #Mexico. 🇲🇽 How did things reach this point? 💔 Read more here 👇🏻 www.connectas.org/teuchitlan-t...
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Teuchitlán: The Extermination Camp that Shocked the World
How did things reach this point?
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 20/04/2025
#LaHoraDeVenezuela |🇻🇪🇨🇱 A year after the kidnapping and assasinaton of lieutenant Ronald Ojeda in #Chile, investigations point to top officials of the Maduro regime. Who was this former member of the Armed Forces? 🔎⬇️
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The Targeted Assassination of Ronald Ojeda Moreno
Ojeda was kidnapped and killed a year ago
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 19/04/2025
🦋🪲🕷️ Did you know bugs of the Ecuadorian Amazon are traded in an international black market? 🇪🇨🤔 Beetles, butterflies, and tarantulas end up in collectors' display cases in #USA 🇺🇸, Europe 🇪🇺, and Asia. Read the investigation here.⬇️
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Bugs of Gold
Bug collectors are driving the black market of Ecuadorian Amazonian species
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CONNECTAS @connectas.org · 18/04/2025
🎞🎭 Beyond its critical acclaim, the musical Emilia Pérez unleashed controversy, particularly in México, due to its clichéd view of Latin American reality.  Read this #WeNeedToTalk 🗣 here. ⬇️
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An Oscar for Latin American Stereotypes
Emilia Pérez ratifies a sort of cultural extractivism at the expense of our region’s real image
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