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Last domiciled leaders of Nicaragua’s anti-canal movement arrested
Rural canal opponents threw weight behind anti-government protests, putting Ortega 'on the ropes'
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Cooperation: the key to increasing climate action in Latin America
LAC Climate Week unites non-state and sub-national actors hoping to boost climate cooperation
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Year of elections will bring China closer to Latin America
The continued deregulation of strategic sectors of interest to China could hurt the environment
Caption: The development of rural Colombia is a central focus of the peace deal with FARC, but what role for China? (image: Norway Ministry of Climate and Environment
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Social opposition to extractive industries hits all-time high in Colombia
Investors considering post-conflict Colombia need to look closely at new socio-environmental risks
Caption: The Belo Monte Dam under construction on the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, in 2015 (image: FabioNascimento/Greenpeace
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How a dam building boom is transforming the Brazilian Amazon
Brazil is in the midst of a hydropower boom that is flooding rainforest and displacing communities
Caption: Candiota, in Brazil (image: Eletrobras
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China on path to greener foreign investment
A system for managing the environmental risks associated with China's overseas investments is coming together
Caption: Donald Trump, president of US (image: GageSkidmore
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Why Latin America shouldn’t pull its punches with Trump
Region governments have increasingly independent foreign policy, as China relationship shows
Caption: Only sixteen vaquita porpoises are thought to remain (image: wikimedia
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Ghosts of the vermillion sea
Trafficking of fish maw has become 'more lucrative than cocaine'
Caption: The marine parks will cover more than 1.8 million square kilometres by 2018 (image: Diego Ramírez)
Chile establishes new marine parks
The new protected areas will cover an area larger than Chile’s landmass
Caption: Cordillera del Cóndor, in Ecuador (image: Max Nathanson)
The effects of Chinese mining in Ecuador
Chinese mines have caused social and environmental disruption