21.03.2013

CERRO RICO DE POTOSI, Bolivia — “There isn’t a man on this mountain who wants his children to work here,” Pablo Choque says as he prepares for his shift as a driller. Above us towers 15,800-foot Cerro Rico — literally the “Rich Mountain” — the greatest silver deposit ever known. Locals have another name for it: The Mountain that Eats .. Read more

13.06.2016

ASUNCION, Paraguay — Tina Alvarenga never asked her mother why, at the age of 10, she was handed over to an upper-middle-class couple here in Paraguay’s capital to begin a harsh new life of domestic work and routine humiliation. She had seven brothers and sisters, but as her indigenous Guarani parents struggled to make ends meet in the dusty town .. Read more

26.05.2024

Enrique Añez Dosantos, a former chief of and current spokesman for the remote village of Nueva Oceana, Peru, uses his hands to make sounds as part of his protocol for communicating with a neighboring tribe that lives in voluntary isolation. (Florence Goupil for The Washington Post) NUEVA OCEANIA, Peru — Sometimes, they imitate the low rumble of the howler monkey .. Read more

18.12.2015

 Credit: Simeon Tegel It wasn’t until Esperanza Huayama awoke in a ward full of moaning women who were lying two in each bed and saw the stitches in her abdomen that she realized what had happened — she had been sterilized. “We were just innocent country women. They tricked us,” she says of a mass sterilization program imposed on hundreds of thousands of .. Read more

11.04.2025

Saúl Luciano Lliuya’s case against a German energy company could lead to a raft of cases against polluters Credit: Angela Ponce Lake Palcacocha, Peru – Saúl Luciano Lliuya shudders as he looks up at the endless slabs of ice crushed haphazardly atop each other, towering majestically into the clouds. Clinging to the flanks of Mount Palcaraju, the glacier has, like most in .. Read more

25.10.2025

Heard on All Things Considered By Simeon Tegel 6-Minute Listen Transcript The Trump administration’s goals to crack down on drug trafficking may be at odds with cuts to aid programs meant to fight coca at its source in the Amazon SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST:   The Trump administration has expanded its crackdown on alleged drug smugglers by striking boats in the Caribbean .. Read more