Guillermo Galdos
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Following a rescue team as they find belongings of missing Indigenous Amazon expert
Search teams are continuing to scour a stretch of a remote Brazilian river, looking for a British journalist and indigenous expert who have been missing for more than a week. → Read More
The man protecting hundreds of endangered animals from traffickers in Peruvian Amazon
In the Peruvian Amazon, traffickers are increasingly desperate to catch, kill and sell exotic animals to make ends meet. → Read More
Covid cases surge in Chile despite high vaccine uptake
Vaccines alone aren't enough to bring the pandemic under control, scientists have warned - something Chile has found out, the hard way. → Read More
Chinese fishing fleets threatening fragile Galapagos ecosystem
Chinese industrial fishing fleets have been plundering the waters off the Galapagos coast. → Read More
Colombia virus cases still rising despite swift lockdown
Colombia acted swiftly to lock down early and yet cases there keep on rising. → Read More
Only doctor left Peruvian village as Covid-19 outbreak took hold
The danger to indigenous people is not limited to Brazil. Guillermo Galdos has travelled along the Amazon from the Peruvian capital Lima to Shipibo. → Read More
One family’s 250 mile walk home – as Colombia’s lockdown forces Venezuelan migrants to return
We have followed one family who lost their rented flat and livelihoods in the Colombian capital Bogota, and were forced to begin their way home by foot. → Read More
Bodies left in streets of Guayaquil as Ecuador struggles with coronavirus
In the UK, we are understandably obsessed with quantifying this unfathomable crisis: counting the ventilators, the tests, the infected and of course the dead. → Read More
Bolsonaro shuns social distancing and tells Brazil to deal with virus “like men”
Brazil's far-right leader President Jair Bolsonaro has refused to be socially distant. → Read More
Hundreds of Britons stranded in Peru, country to completely close borders
The Foreign Office says it's "working furiously" to arrange flights. → Read More
Children still split up from families at US Mexican border
It was a policy that shocked the world - thousands of children separated from their parents as part of President Trump's anti immigration crackdown at the US Mexican border. → Read More
Police accused of using excessive force in Chile protests
Once viewed as the success story of Latin American democracy, with a strong economy, in the last few weeks Chile has seen almost daily street protests and a return to police violence unseen since the end of dictatorship three decades ago. → Read More
The other Amazon forest fire that no-one is talking about
While the fires in the Brazilian Amazon have made headlines across the world for the past weeks, in neighbouring Bolivia fires have also been raging. → Read More
The Amazon is still burning – and illegal mining could make it worse
The Brazilian government has banned most land clearing for 60 days, in an attempt to stop the fires which have devastated parts of the Amazon rainforest.But another drain on natural resources there - and one far less reported - is mining, especially illegal gold mining. → Read More
Amazon fires: Brazil refuses aid unless Macron apologises
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has shifted his position on the $22 million of support promised by the G7 countries at the weekend to fight the Amazon fires. Initially he refused to accept it, but now he says he will, however it must come with an apology from French President Emmanuel Macron for what Bolsonaro says are his colonialist comments. We report from Apiacás and Novo Progresso. → Read More
Amazon fires: G7 countries pledge £18m to tackle blazes
Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, said his country was being treated like a colony. → Read More
Left-wing president elected in Mexico
Another place that's felt the cold wind of President Trump's threatened trade wars is the US's neighbour, Mexico. A new president has been elected there. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known by his initials as AMLO, is a populist. That's where the similarities with his counterpart north of the border end.… → Read More
Cambridge Analytica: The Mexico allegations
[/embed] Last week, this programme exposed how Cambridge Analytica claimed to have intervened - often secretly - in elections around the world. Now the secrets are unspooling. An undercover reporter for Channel 4 News posed as a fixer for a wealthy client hoping to get candidates elected in Sri Lanka.… → Read More
Venezuela’s hospitals struggling to deliver basic services
For three months, Venezuela has been rocked by violent unrest. At first protesters took to the streets against the Government and its increasingly unpopular President Nicolas Maduro. Anger has grown and the demonstrations have become a national movement against Venezuela'a crippling long-term social problems. basic services. There are food shortages… → Read More
Donald Trump, the Wall and the lives around it
Donald Trump insists he WILL build his wall - but both Congress and Mexico are refusing to pay for it, and even his supporters are sceptical it'll keep illegal immigrants out - tonight we have a special report. → Read More