Colombia's Medellin boosts its 'eco-city' aims during coronavirus recovery
Colombia's second city of Medellin is planning to cut its carbon emissions by 20% by 2030, whilst also helping its economy recover from COVID-19.
Based in Bogota, Anastasia Moloney is the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Latin America and Caribbean correspondent.
Colombia's second city of Medellin is planning to cut its carbon emissions by 20% by 2030, whilst also helping its economy recover from COVID-19.
Los organismos rectores de América Latina, incluidos el Brasil, Colombia y El Salvador, están invirtiendo en formas de reducir la brecha digital mediante reformas estructurales.
Governing bodies in Latin America, including Brazil, Colombia and El Salvador are investing in ways to reduce the digital divide with structural reforms.
Cities across the world are increasingly turning to advanced forensic tool systems to tackle rising levels of crime - but is this only pushing crime into poorer areas?
$215 million dollars are lost annually as a result of deforestation by drug gangs in South America who are clearing trees for illegal airports and cocaine warehouses. All of this is incre...
Farmers are being forced to leave their homes as rural communities struggle to live amidst extreme weather and climate change.
'Sextortion', the abuse of power to obtain sexual favours, is becoming increasingly prevalent in Latin America, with one in five people having experience of the form of corruption.
In Cucuta, with a new phone application called Premise, residents can identify mosquito breeding grounds and report them, so health officials can handle it.
There is a fleet of 26 now circulating in the southwestern city of 2.5 million people.
As regional leaders gather for a summit on protecting the Amazon, where fires are raging, indigenous leaders say they have forest knowledge politicians cannot afford to overlook.
Honduras is hit hardest by the Dengue outbreak. Scientists fear the disease is likely to become more frequent with climate change.
Chile joins Peru as the second country in Latin America where street sexual harassment has a legal definition making it a specific crime.
Fishermen in Columbia are working to help protect and preserve dwindling coral populations in the Caribbean sea.
In Colombia's archipelago of San Andres and Providencia, in the western Caribbean, fishermen are being paid $125 a month by the government to farm coral in an undersea gardening project.
Half of the country's ministers will be women for the first time in its history.