Tag: South America
How Maduro’s capture went down – a military strategist explains what...
R. Evan Ellis, The Center for Strategic and International Studies
The predawn seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on...
A predawn op in Latin America? The US has been here...
Alan McPherson, Temple University
In the dead of night during the holidays, the United States launched an operation inside...
Black-market oil buyers will push Venezuela for bigger discounts following US...
Francisco J. Monaldi, Rice University
The U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast looks designed to...
The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during...
Renata Keller, University of Nevada, Reno
Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world back from...
Brazil coup charges could end Bolsonaro’s political career − but they...
Anthony Pereira, Florida International University
Brazilian politics are getting more dramatic again.
The South American country’s...
Raw materials, or sacred beings? Lithium extraction puts two worldviews into tension
Mario Orospe Hernández, Arizona State University
Located in the heart of South America, Bolivia contains the largest lithium deposits...
In the turbulent Drake Passage, scientists find a rare window where...
Lilian (Lily) Dove, California Institute of Technology
Looking out across the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, I can see whales...
A volcanic eruption 39 million years ago buried a forest in...
Deborah Woodcock, Clark University and Herb Meyer, National Park Service
In the hills outside the small village of Sexi,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
