China pushes ‘new Silk Road’ to Latin America 'China's very much in the region to stay' When Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled what became known as the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, the...
Dutch euthanization of psychiatric patients draws scrutiny The euthanasia of Eelco de Gooijer highlights a growing practice When Monique de Gooijer’s son Eelco was born, she never thought she would be the...
Documenting Colombia’s child soldiers "Sometimes it's with gifts, they lure children with gifts." Photojournalist Juan Arredondo was on assignment with the Red Cross in Colombia in 2014...
Teen pregnancy in Latin America, photographed "It’s...going against a tide of cultural behavior that says not only is teen pregnancy okay, it’s kind of expected." Brooklyn-based photographer...
Venezuela’s teen pregnancy epidemic Around the world, rates of teen pregnancy have been dropping for decades. But in Latin America, rates of teenage motherhood remain stubbornly...
Brazil prison conditions fuel gang crisis Back in January 2017, Brazil experienced a wave of massive and grisly prison riots. More than 130 inmates were killed in a few weeks in fighting...
A lens on Venezuelan street crime "The drug trade is why we still have the government we have." Adriana Fernández first wielded a camera at the age of 16 to take pictures of friends...
Venezuela’s other crisis: drug trafficking Venezuela may be mired in political and economic crisis. But governance in the country is also undermined by the involvement of senior government...
Latin American environmentalists under attack Earlier this year, a 51-year-old Mexican man named Isidro Baldenegro López was shot to death in Mexico’s Chihuahua state. Mr. López was a...
Colombia’s uncertain future "I don't think Colombia is by nature a violent country and that we want to keep on killing each other." For more than a half century Colombia's...
