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Coca chewing gets a chic makeover
Published on 12/11/2022
» SANTIAGO: With flavours ranging from bubble gum to passion fruit and TikTok stars promoting it, chewing coca has become the latest chic trend in Bolivia.
'We don't eat lithium': S. America longs for benefits of metal boon
AFP, Published on 25/10/2022
» SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA (CHILE) - The turquoise glimmer of open-air pools contrasts sharply with the dazzling white of salt flats in Latin America's "lithium triangle," where hope resides for a better life fueled by a metal bonanza.
Greening global economy brings dependence on critical minerals
AFP, Published on 25/10/2022
» PARIS: After nearly a century of geopolitical tension over access to oil, experts worry that the global transition to clean energy is creating new dependencies on the critical minerals needed for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicle batteries.
3 steps forward, but 2.5 back for populism
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/10/2022
» The reports about Luiz Inácio 'Lula' da Silva's impending comeback as Brazilian president verged on the ecstatic in the week before the vote on Oct 2. He was after all, fourteen points ahead of his populist rival, incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro, in the last opinion poll before the vote.
UN Human Rights Council rejects debate on Xinjiang
AFP, Published on 07/10/2022
» GENEVA - The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday voted against debating alleged widespread abuses in China's Xinjiang region after intense lobbying by Beijing, in a heavy setback for Western nations.
A false new world of empty promises
Oped, Published on 23/09/2022
» The setting is a house on stilts located in a Myanmar military base in the middle of what until then had been known as the civil war's black area. The time was April 2012. The scene was Kyauk Kyi in Myanmar's Bago Region which is basically a free-fire zone for the Myanmar military.
Kasidit's heroics take Thailand to Davis Cup World Group I play-offs
Sports, Tor Chittinand, Published on 18/09/2022
» Thailand booked their place in the 2023 Davis Cup World Group I play-offs after they defeated Bolivia 3-1 on Saturday.
Thailand hold all the aces
Sports, Tor Chittinand, Published on 17/09/2022
» Thailand took a 2-0 lead against Bolivia on the first day of their Davis Cup World Group II clash at the National Tennis Development Centre at Muang Thong Thani on Friday.
Last member of Brazilian indigenous community found dead
AFP, Published on 30/08/2022
» BRASILIA: The last of his people, a Brazilian indigenous man known only as "the man of the hole" has been found dead, decades after the rest of his uncontacted tribe were killed off by ranchers and illegal miners, officials said.
The 'pink tide' is rising in Latin America
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/06/2022
» 'Corruption isn't fought with slogans on TikTok," complained veteran Colombian presidential candidate Gustavo Petro. But social media can win elections, and a right-wing dark horse called Rodolfo Hernández, who calls himself the "King of TikTok", may crush Mr Petro's hopes of becoming Colombia's first-ever leftist president next Sunday.