In the Peruvian Amazonian city of Iquitos, the first wave of COVID-19 brought unprecedented chaos and a black market in oxygen and mass graves.
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China may see Trump’s Latin American policies as opening up new opportunities for it in the region.
To preserve democracy, leaders and citizens will have to get back to the basics: free and fair elections, the rule of law and a vibrant civic culture.
It’s the first time Paddington has ever been depicted going back to Peru
A two-part new approach to helping countries manage their debt would improve the situation for governments as well as their creditors.
Years after being ousted during his third term in office, the former Peruvian strongman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes he committed as president. He was later pardoned – twice.
A court in Peru has sentenced ten retired soldiers for raping nine women while serving in the military in the 1980s.
As the dust settles on the attempted coup in Bolivia, people are pointing the finger at the country’s president.
The psychotropic allure of the ayahuasca plant for hundreds of thousands of non-Indigenous consciousness seekers is raising many concerns.
When Frank Herbert sat down in 1963 to start writing ‘Dune,’ he wasn’t thinking about how to leave Earth behind. He was thinking about how to save it.
Agricultural sustainability is as much about power and sovereignty as it is about soil, water and crops.
Widespread violence tied to Ecuadorian drug gangs has left the country looking at a draconian response.
The former Peruvian strongman appeared frail as he left prison. But his influence on politics remains strong.
If this case succeeds, it could set a precedent to hold major polluters responsible for the effects of climate change – even on the other side of the world.
In the Global South, a group of writers are rejecting the norms of science fiction and commenting on the future in a way that embraces Indigenous culture.
Ecuador’s murder rate has shot up in recent years and now a presidential candidate has been assassinated.
Machu Picchu is now an iconic tourist destination in Peru – but it was once a royal palace that pulled people from all corners of the Inca empire.
The final Indiana Jones movie is coming out June 30. The fifth in a series over 42 years, many of its ideas are taken from 19th-century orientalist and racist archaeology.
More than 50 Peruvians have died in rioting as the South America country faces a severe constitutional crisis.
Thousands of demonstrators have descended on Lima amid violent clashes with police. The protest movement could be taking cues from earlier mobilizations in neighboring Bolivia.
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Associate Professor in Strategy and International Business, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Global Affairs and Human Security, University of Baltimore
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Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University
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Tom Austen Brown Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Researcher at the Center for Mining and Sustainability Studies at the Universidad del Pacífico (Peru) and PhD Candidate in Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Management and Co-director of the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Essex
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Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Reading
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Professor Gender and Development, King's College London
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Departmental Lecturer in International Relations, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Anthropology, Durham University
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PhD candidate in Political Science, University of Glasgow
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Visiting Fellow in Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading
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Milton P. and Alice C. Higgins Professor of Environment and Society, Professor of Geography, Clark University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta
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Lecturer in Human-Environment Interactions, Bangor University