Stars and Stripes5d
The Gulf of Mexico’s long history of colonization and varying names
Colonizers have always coveted the Gulf of Mexico: its trade winds, ports, fish and shellfish, its deep pockets of oil and gas far beneath a basin floor of crashed, tectonic plates.
‘We didn’t celebrate Independence Day until 1947’: My week on the river that built America
But the headline act was not the ship, it was the Mississippi itself. Dubbed “the great artery of America” by Civil War ...
Slavery, tax evasion, resistance: the story of 11 Africans in South America’s gold mines in the 1500s
Ana Angola was captured in the kingdom of Ndongo and spent months on a ship before a journey over land where she was forced ...
Damiano David Read Your Thirst Tweets, And Now He Feels "Naked"
Lisa Kudrow revealed during an interview on “The Drew Barrymore Show” (via People) that she recently discovered a note the late Matthew Perry left for her inside the “Friends” cookie jar, which he ...
The Hill14d
Only US leadership can stop China’s economic power in Latin America
Latin America has been seduced in recent years by China’s massive economic investment projects. The Communist state has a dangerous hold on telecommunications, the lithium and copper industries ...
The Financial Times16d
A new Monroe doctrine is unlikely to work for the US in South America
Donald Trump wants to roll back China’s growing footprint in Latin America. He isn’t above strong-arm tactics to do it. Just see his latest demand to reassume control of the Panama Canal ...
Reuters17d
Over 300,000 migrants crossed Latin America's Darien Gap in 2024, down 42%
PANAMA CITY, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Over 300,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap into Panama in 2024, 42% fewer than the record number who made the perilous jungle crossing from South America a year ...
hir.harvard18d
Resilient Roots: Indigenous Agriculture and Climate Change in Latin America
In Guatemala and Mexico, the milpa system is an Indigenous practice that increases soil fertility and crop yields. This system involves intercropping, the cultivation of diverse crops in the same plot ...
The Washington Post21d
A South American waterway becomes a cocaine superhighway — to Europe
It was envisioned to be the Mississippi River of South America. The Paraguay-Paraná waterway ... to Argentina’s Río de la Plata estuary. Map showing cocaine seizures along the Parana and ...
The Hill23d
The Kurds are America’s allies — the US must defend them
The U.S. and Turkey risk a confrontation if Turkey or its jihadist proxies attack the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), America’s ally fighting ISIS. Defeating ISIS is still a work in progress ...
The New York Times24d
How A.I. Could Reshape the Economic Geography of America
As the technology is widely adopted, some once-struggling midsize cities in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South may benefit ... population and labor market map of America. A.I.’s transformative ...
El País in English24d
The Canal is off the table: Latin America closes ranks with Panama in face of Trump’s threats
It was an off-the-cuff idea aired at the beginning of the Christmas holidays, but within hours its impact triggered a chain reaction throughout Latin America. The intention of the president-elect of ...