Suriname and its pristine environment have become pawns in a new diplomatic Great Game in the Americas as power shifts from the United States toward China.
Nancy López sits down to talk with Daniel Alarcón about her experience as a producer at Radio Ambulante.
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Brazil leads the way in providing free and accessible health care. An Indian journalist says the U.S. could learn a thing or two.
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Evidence of climate change spreads across Ecuador's fourth highest summit, Antisana, with land and lakes emerging where glaciers previously masked the surface.
Latin America now faces the challenge of coping with the potentially devastating impacts of climate change.
In Colombia, against the backdrop of a global commodities boom, local gold miners fight to maintain their livelihoods while foreign companies sweep in.
Climate change and government infrastructure fail to support a stable water supply on Peru's desert coast.
The Incas believed that the god Viracocha rose from the waters of Lake Titicaca and created mankind. Now, mankind's trash is endangering the waters of the sacred lake.
Chinese families are migrating to Suriname in large numbers—incurring debts, working for low wages. Will this new trend and their indentured labor signal a shift in the Americas' balance of power?
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