In Cotacachi, ancestral midwives are defending home birth as Indigenous knowledge, bodily autonomy, and political resistance, challenging Ecuador’s medical system while training a new generation to protect women from obstetric violence and cultural erasure. Birth as Territory and Rebellion In the Andean communities of Cotacachi, in northern Ecuador, birth is not only a private family […]
In Manaus, sewer lines and battery plants show why Amazon development cannot be separated from dignity, jobs, and climate survival, as EFE reports. Sustainable investment is becoming a test of whether Brazil can protect forests by protecting its own people. The Amazon Needs More Than Promises The Amazon is often described from afar as a […]
Ecuador is trying to turn cocoa, dairy, coffee, and guayusa into proof that Latin America can sell food without sacrificing forests. Still, the promise depends on traceability, community power, and markets willing to reward restraint. A Small Country Makes a Big Climate Claim Ecuador is placing an unusually ambitious bet on a difficult idea: that […]
US intervention forces end to decade of statistical opacity at Venezuela’s Central Bank Thursday, April 30th 2026 – 13:09 UTC The year-on-year inflation stood at 649.5% at the end of the first quarter The Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) has begun systematically publishing economic indicators that had been held under wraps for at […]
European Parliament urges sanctions on Venezuela to remain until verifiable democratic progress Thursday, April 30th 2026 – 13:18 UTC The immediate trigger for the resolution was Delcy Rodríguez’s decision, announced on April 23, to end the Law of Amnesty The European Parliament approved on Thursday, by a wide majority, a resolution urging the […]
Brazil’s fiscal deficit climbs to 9.41% of GDP amid economic slowdown and election year Thursday, April 30th 2026 – 13:25 UTC The Brazilian economy grew 2.3% in 2025, below the 3.4% recorded in 2024, and the Central Bank itself projects a further slowdown to 1.6% for the current year Brazil’s nominal public sector […]
‘I committed no crime’: Adorni weathers opposition pressure in Congress with full Milei’s backing Thursday, April 30th 2026 – 01:47 UTC The Cabinet Chief’s defense centered on drawing a line between his personal assets and acts of government Argentine Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni refused to resign on Wednesday during his first management report […]
US troops train in Argentina with USS Nimitz in Atlantic Dagger exercise Thursday, April 30th 2026 – 03:39 UTC Argentine Navy officers were embedded on the Nimitz as part of the exchange US troops began joint maneuvers on Tuesday with their Argentine counterparts as part of the “Atlantic Dagger” exercise, one of the […]
Advocates rally outside of the Supreme Court as the hearing was held on April 29, 2026. (Haitian Bridge Alliance image) By Staff Reporter | NewsAmericasNow.com News Americas, WASHINGTON, D.C., Weds. April 29, 2026: The future of more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants in the United States is hanging in the balance as the U.S. Supreme Court […]
The JEP’s ruling against former FARC commanders forces Colombia to confront a wound beyond battlefield memory: children pulled into war, Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities fractured, and a peace system now testing whether truth can still carry justice publicly at last. A Verdict Against Stolen Childhood Colombia’s war has always had numbers, but the numbers never […]