Rafael Arce, the son of President Luis Arce, purchased a property called "Adán y Eva", located in a protected area, asking for a 3️⃣-million dollar loan.
At 25, how did he do it? 🤔💰
Find out here⬇️
https://www.connectas.org/especiales/tierras-hijo-presidente-arce-bolivia/index-en.html
24.08.2025 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Evo’s Overextended Goodbye
It seems that this 20-year-long chapter in history will come to an end on August 17
🗳️ Bolivia is getting ready to put a 20-year era behind. Two decades of Evismo come to an end.
Among threats and tensions, will the country hold a peaceful election? 🤔
✍🏼By: Susana López, member of the #CONNECTASHub
More here.
23.08.2025 17:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Narcos Infiltrate Governments with Guns and Bribes
How far are the continent’s governments infiltrated by narcos?
🔎From Mexico to Chile, narcos have infiltrated power: they bought off militaries, fund campaigns, and control institutions.
“Silver or lead” is not just a threat, it became a regional strategy.
#WeNeedToTalk.👇🏽
22.08.2025 18:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Childhood Under Suspicion
Does it make sense to focus on punishing children who are its victims?
#TerritoryCONNECTAS | Ecuador 🇪🇨 has toughened the penalties for minors in criminal groups, but not for their recruiters.
Does it make sense to focus on punishing children who are its victims?
✍🏼 By Alina Manrique, member of #CONNECTASHub.🔎🔽
www.connectas.org/childhood-ec...
22.08.2025 15:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lee más en #LaHoraDeVenezuela
#LaHoraDeVenezuela | This is how the secret network of Maduro's communications offensive operates.
An unprecedented leak reveals how SISCOM (an app of the Ministry of Communications) disseminates digital propaganda.📲
Read it here: ⬇️
www.connectas.org/asifunciona-...
15.07.2025 14:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Most Venezuelans Sent to El Salvador Had No Criminal Convictions
Read more at #LaHoraDeVenezuela
#LaHoraDeVenezuela 🇻🇪 | More than half of the 238 people deported by the U.S. 🇺🇸 to #ElSalvador 🇸🇻 had no criminal record. Homeland Security records show they had only migration violations, and still they were labeled as terrorists.
The text here.👇🏽
www.connectas.org/venezuelans-...
08.07.2025 19:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Odd Latin American Peace in a World at War
Latin America appears to be an oasis of peace on the world
🕊️ Latin America: An oasis of peace in a world on fire?
While Israel and Iran attack each other, and Ukraine remains at war, our region is unusually calm.
Can we stay in the fringes of the current global turmoil?
Learn more here: #WeNeedToTalk .⬇️
www.connectas.org/the-odd-lati...
07.07.2025 22:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Latin America Faces a Teenage Pregnancy Crisis
While Putin and Trump Offer Cash to Have Babies
While Putin and Trump encourage having more babies, Latin America struggles with increased teenage pregnancy rates. 🍼🤰🏼
An outlier in the global context?
We delve into this demographic paradox and its consequences in this piece of #WeNeedToTalk. ⬇️
www.connectas.org/while-putin-...
27.06.2025 21:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#PREMIOSREYDEESPAÑA | Premio de PERIODISMO DE COOPERACIÓN INTERNACIONAL Y ACCIÓN HUMANITARIA a Carlos Eduardo Huertas de @connectas.org y 15 medios de Venezuela: alianza Venezuela Vota y #LahoradeVenezuela por el trabajo: “Operación Retuit”.
🔴📡 En directo: https://www.youtube.com/live/fY062bZf0Qo
18.06.2025 17:54 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Why Chevron in Venezuela Turned into Washington’s Dilemma
The rapprochement between China and Latin America, and Washington's reaction
#WeNeedToTalk | ⛽ Venezuela on the spotlight: Chevron sparks a battle between the industry's interests and ideology in Washington.
While Grenell is team business, Rubio insists on putting pressure on Maduro.
What will the U.S. do? 🔍⬇️
www.connectas.org/why-chevron-...
19.06.2025 17:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Globalism, the Enemy of the New Right-Wing’s “Cultural Battle”
The “Global elite” conspiring against the West.
🌍 Globalism became the new invisible enemy.
Leaders such as Trump, Milei, and Bukele use this term to justify their war against NGOs, journalists, and academics.
What's behind this battle? Read our #WeNeedToTalk 👇🏽
www.connectas.org/globalism-th...
17.06.2025 15:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
✍️Happening this Thursday!
Our LATAM #OCRI partner @connectas.org is hosting a webinar to share tips and tricks of reporting the #ClimateCrisis from a cross-border and collaborative perspective using data.
For more details and to participate for free 👇
tcij.org/ocri-course/...
17.06.2025 14:13 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Missing Children Missing in Ecuador's Internal War
In the first year of the armed conflict, disappearances of minors in Ecuador increased by 88%
In Ecuador 🇪🇨, disappearances of children and teenagers skyrocketed in 2024, after the first year of militarization of the country.
Forced recruitment and trafficking for sexual exploitation are among the reasons.
#LostChildren 👦🏽👧🏽
Delve into the investigation here
www.connectas.org/missing-chil...
16.06.2025 17:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Gang Leader that Bukele’s Government Let Escape
Alias Charly managed to avoid jail time for one case of murder and 46 extortions
#GangleaderOnTheLoose |⛓ The gang leader known as "Charly" was arrested and released in this State of Exception in El Salvador.
🚨Today, he is hiding abroad. His partner worked for Bukele and attended political events with him.
Discover more here:👇🏽
www.connectas.org/the-gang-lea...
13.06.2025 15:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lawless and Forestless
The Dreamland of Illegal Mining’s Excavators in the Amazon
🚜💰 The cost of excavators ravaging the Amazon in Ecuador ranges between 100 and 300 thousand dollars. 🇪🇨
They are sold without controls.
The consequences? More than 1,400 hectares of jungle devastated in Napo.
Discover more in #LawlessExcavators. 🔎⬇️ www.connectas.org/lawless-fore...
12.06.2025 16:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Migrantes del mar, el sol y la lluvia
Habitantes de pequeñas comunidades del norte de Centroamérica están migrando dentro y fuera de sus países tras la pérdida de sus viviendas, negocios y cosechas.
Migration due to the impact of #climatechange is not a myth!
According to the World Bank's 2018 and 2021 Groundswell reports, Latin America could see 17 million internal climate migrants by 2050! This story is another #OCRI exclusive led by @connectas.org
Read⤵️
www.connectas.org/especiales/m...
04.06.2025 15:42 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
📚 GIJN's Stories of the Week
• @connectas.org sheds light on the Bolivian president’s son's alleged abuse of power.
• @washingtonpost.com revealed how police in New Orleans secretly used live facial recognition tech.
More: https://twp.ai/9PSE8B
06.06.2025 18:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Did you know bugs of the Ecuadorian Amazon are traded in an international black market? 🇪🇨🤔
Beetles, butterflies, and tarantulas end up in collectors' display cases in #USA 🇺🇸, Europe 🇪🇺, and Asia.
#BugsOfGold 🦋🪲🕷️
Read the investigation here.⬇️
www.connectas.org/especiales/b...
03.06.2025 21:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
La Chama and El Pana, two AI avatars with slight Venezuelan accents, are the faces of Operación Retuit, an initiative launched last summer after the controversial victory of Nicolas Maduro in the Venezuelan presidential elections.
03.06.2025 11:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
El dengue explota las bajas defensas de los gobiernos
En 2024 los casos y muertes por dengue aumentaron en América Latina, entre otras causas, por el cambio climático.
📢A LATAM cross-border collaboration led by @connectas.org as part of our Open Climate Reporting Initiative #OCRI !
A spike in dengue-related cases led to 826 preventable deaths in Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras due to the effects of #climatechange in 2024!
Read⤵️
www.connectas.org/especiales/d...
30.05.2025 15:43 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Political Paranoia
What do the region's leaders intend with this conspiracy rhetoric?
#WeNeedToTalk | In #LatinAmerica, several presidents are claiming that dark forces are behind “soft coups” or conspiracies against them. For what purpose are they using this confrontational rhetoric? ⬇️
30.05.2025 19:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Influencers’ Unstoppable Political Power
Influencers shape politics—propaganda or threat to democracy?
#WeNeedToTalk | It is a fact: Influencers have overshadowed media outlets for a while now.
Their presence in politics is undeniable nowadays, which bears asking: To what extent are they instruments of propaganda?🤔
Our analysis.🔎👉🏽
30.05.2025 15:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Haiti: The Silent Cries of the Street
How far will the world's indifference go in the face of this drama?
The humanitarian drama in Haiti 🇭🇹 appears to be endless. The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere keeps sinking into violence. How far will the world’s indifference to this drama last?
#WeNeedToTalk. Read it here.👇🏽
29.05.2025 16:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two Ideas to Beat Poverty
To what extent can it affect a yearslong issue?
In the G20, Lula Da Silva proposed a tax of 2% on the super-rich, he estimates the move could collect $250 billion to fight against global poverty and hunger. 💸🌍
What can be done about poverty in #LatinaAmerica?
29.05.2025 13:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump vs. Human Rights
Its Repercussion in the Continent
#WeNeedToTalk | Washington’s 🇺🇸 policies are pushing the anti-woke agenda forward in the continent. Hard-earned rights conquered in multiple fronts are under threat.
Read here. ⬇️
28.05.2025 20:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shelterless Migrants: Trump’s Other Crisis
How is migration reconfigured in this new era?
#WeNeedToTalk | Donald Trump cut USAID funding and its effects are already being felt in Latin America. 🌎💸
Thousands of immigrants won't have access to shelters, food, and counsel. 👣
📌 What are the implications? Let us tell you. www.connectas.org/shelterless-...
28.05.2025 17:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A New Hell in the Isthmus
Migrants in Panama face a humanitarian and political limbo.
#TerritoryCONNECTAS | For years, Panama was the bridge used by migrants to get to the United States. Nevertheless, nowadays it is taking the Trump administration's foreign deportees.
Will the crisis get worse? 🇵🇦
🔍 More here:
www.connectas.org/a-new-hell-i...
27.05.2025 21:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dengue explota las bajas defensas de gobiernos de México y América Central
MÉXICO – Para Suyapa Aguilera, hondureña de 49 años, “la lucha contra el dengue es una batalla diaria”, pues ha afectado a casi todos los miembros de su familia, especialmente a los niños. En su casa,...
El dengue explota en América Latina: 12 millones de casos, casi 3 veces el récord de 2023 y 7700 muertes en 2024, la epidemia más grande desde que comenzaron los registros. De Viatori, Criteriohn, @poplab.bsky.social , @periodistagodoy.bsky.social y @connectas.org ipsnoticias.net/2025/05/deng...
23.05.2025 10:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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