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Colombia

Hooked on the War on Drugs

For thirty years, the global cocaine empire was controlled from the heart of Colombia’s streets. Led by the so-called “Kings of Cocaine”, the most notorious drug cartels in history dominated every level of the country’s...
by Jenny Morton
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Latin America

Deadly Storms, Delayed Aid Devestate Mexico’s La Montaña Indigenous

Two major storms, Tropical Storm Manuel and Hurricane Ingrid, hit Mexico last month, leaving behind157 deaths according to the latest official reports. One of the hardest hit areas is La Montaña, a region in the southern sta...
by Silvia Viñas
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Africa

The 5 Most Dangerous Gangs In The World

At the moment it seems like a new incident of religiously-driven gang violence is appearing in the newspapers every day. What with the recent Kenyan mall massacre and the Nairobi school shooting, it seems like we have a chain r...
by Maddie Barber
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Chile

Chile’s Student Uprising: ‘There’s a Story to Be Told’

British-Chilean documentary filmmaker Pablo Navarrete is working alongside his father, Roberto Navarrete, on an independent documentary about the Chilean student movement. They recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on...
by Silvia Viñas
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Africa
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Volunteer Tourism: Harming rather than helping?

With a new cohort of 18 and 19 year olds about to embark on their gap years, the intensification of promotions by volunteer tourism organisations begins. With promises that prospective volunteers will have the opportunity to ...
by Joe Corry-Roake
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Brazil
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Brazil’s Economic Future: A Snapshot

When my professors were my age they heard that Brazil was the up and coming country; it was the one to invest in and they would watch it grow to unprecedented levels, when I began college it was still the country of the future....
by Robert Marks
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Brazil

WATCH: A Tribe With A Horrific Secret

First, a few facts about the Suruwahan people. They are an indigenous tribe living outside the confines of Brazilian society. They are self-sufficient, sustaining themselves by hunting. They do not feel the need to wear clo...
by Chez
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Brazil
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It Started With a Kiss: Footballer opens homophobia debate in Brazil

One week after Russian athletes Kseniya Ryzhova and Tatyana Firova kissed in celebration at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow as well as three-time pole vaulting champion Yelena Isinbayeva spoke out in favour of an an...
by Fernanda Canofre
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Latin America

WATCH: How a skyscraper became the world’s tallest slum

Centro Financiero Confinanzas, widely know as Torre de David (Tower of David) is the worlds tallest slum. This unfinished skyscraper, in Venezuela’s capital city Caracas, has become a monument to the failed system when c...
by Nicky Armstrong
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