COVID-19
Colombia's Medellin boosts its 'eco-city' aims during coronavirus recovery
Colombia's second city of Medellin is planning to cut its carbon emissions by 20% by 2030, whilst also helping its economy recover from COVID-19.
Based in Bogota, Anastasia Moloney is the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Latin America and Caribbean correspondent.
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Could coronavirus lockdown help close Latin America's digital divide?
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South Africa
This country uses 450,000 private security guards to tackle crime
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Forests
Drug trade damaging Central America's forests, researchers say
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Agriculture, Food and Beverage
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Farmers are being forced to leave their homes as rural communities struggle to live amidst extreme weather and climate change.
Gender Inequality
Survey finds 'sextortion' rife in Latin America, women worst hit
'Sextortion', the abuse of power to obtain sexual favours, is becoming increasingly prevalent in Latin America, with one in five people having experience of the form of corruption.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
This app has helped Colombia destroy 70,000 mosquito breeding sites and fight Zika
In Cucuta, with a new phone application called Premise, residents can identify mosquito breeding grounds and report them, so health officials can handle it.
Climate Change
Colombian cities gather green speed with electric buses
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Future of the Environment
Colombia's indigenous tribes are sharing their knowledge to save the Amazon rainforest
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Global Health
Climate change is causing Dengue Fever to spread in Central America
Honduras is hit hardest by the Dengue outbreak. Scientists fear the disease is likely to become more frequent with climate change.
Chile
Chile gets tough on sexual harassment in the streets
Chile joins Peru as the second country in Latin America where street sexual harassment has a legal definition making it a specific crime.
Future of the Environment
Island fishermen in Columbia dive into action to save the coral
Fishermen in Columbia are working to help protect and preserve dwindling coral populations in the Caribbean sea.
Ocean
These Colombian fishermen are being paid to farm coral in an underwater garden
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Gender Inequality
Half of Colombia's new cabinet will be women
Half of the country's ministers will be women for the first time in its history.