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Where people were sent to disappear
With poisonous snakes and shark-infested waters, this desert island had no hope of escape.
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Disappearing world: Paraguay’s Ayoreo people fight devastating land sales
An Ayoreo group in the Chaco whose ancestral land was sold to international ranchers in 2012 is battling for its return – and to hang on to their way of life. By Toby Stirling Hill. (Jan. 25)
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The Zika virus foreshadows our dystopian climate future
The mosquito-borne disease shows that pushing the limits of the planet’s ecology has become dangerous in novel ways. By Bill McKibben.
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El Nino Drought Cuts Down on Christmas Lights in Colombia
This year's El Nino weather phenomenon is claiming an unexpected casualty in Colombia: Christmas lights. An exceptionally strong El Nino has created a severe drought that officials fear will empty reservoirs that are used to generate a good part of the South American country's electricity.
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Return of the Lula
With Brazil mired in scandal, is the leftist former president about to ditch his hand-picked successor and take the reins once more? By Juliana Barbassa.
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Argentina's Underwater Town that was Submerged for 30 years
The town of Epecuen in Argentina was flooded 30 years ago, but the ruins of the town have now emerged.
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Mauricio Macri: Argentina’s new president vows to unite nation
Mauricio Macri vows to unite Argentina as he is sworn in as president, in a ceremony boycotted by predecessor Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
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Colombia Finds What May be World's Largest Sunken Treasure
Colombian President Juan Manual Santos hailed Saturday the discovery of a Spanish galleon that went down off the South American nation's coast more than 300 years ago with what may be the world's largest sunken treasure.…
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Amid Gold Rush, Jaguars Clash With Miners
Nearly one hundred of the big cats have died since the 2008 recession raised the value of gold, says National Geographic grantee Anthony Cummings.
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Carlos Santana - Oye Como Va
"Oye Como Va" is a song written by Latin jazz and mambo musician Tito Puente in 1963 and popularized by Santana's rendition of the song in 1970 on their album Abraxas, helping to catapult Santana into stardom with the song reaching #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also reached #11 on the Billboard Easy Listening survey and #32 on their R&B chart.
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Carlos Santana - Samba Pa Ti
From the album Abraxas, 1970
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Santana - Smooth ft. Rob Thomas
Santana's official music video for 'Smooth' ft. Rob Thomas.
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[VIDEO] Nuestro editor habla de las "3 grandes mentiras" en su charla REC
Hay 3 mentiras que como sociedad hemos aceptado como ciertas sin siquiera cuestionarlas, y que impiden nuestro progreso. El editor de El Definido, Marco Canepa, demuestra con casos reales que nos estamos engañando y que otra realidad es posible.
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The Claims Are Rosy, But Brazil's Rain Forest Is Still Disappearing
Brazil says it's greatly reduced the rate of deforestation. That may be true, critics say, but they argue such figures are misleading because so much of the Amazon has already been degraded.
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Deep In The Amazon, An Unseen Battle Over The Most Valuable Trees
In this part of the Amazon rain forest, they call it "the war over wood." It has front lines. One of them is here, in Machadinho d'Oeste in the western Brazilian state of Rondonia.
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What "Narcos" Gets Wrong About the War on Drugs
The Netflix show distorts history and misrepresents the conflict
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Lush Carpets of Flowers Thrive in the World's Driest Desert
Receiving barely a half-inch of rainfall per year, Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the driest places on Earth, but that all changes when El Niño rolls around every few years.
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13th October 2010 - Chilean miners are rescued after 69 days underground
The last of 33 miners trapped nearly half a mile underground for more than two months at a caved-in mine in northern Chile, are rescued. The miners survived longer than anyone else trapped underground in recorded history.
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The Latin American gun leak
During the 1980s, El Salvador was the single largest recipient of U.S. military hardware and weaponry in the Western Hemisphere. Although the Central American country's civil war ended in 1992, the guns, grenades and bullets linger, as do their murderous effects. In September, a U.S. official from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives estimated that half the weapons available on El Salvador's vibrant black market were made in the United States.
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The Roof of America by Eric Hodges
Trekking and climbing in the high mountains of Northern Peru, a rarely visited region well off the beaten track, the beauty and scale of the Cordillera Blanca and the Cordillera Huayhuash ranges from the sublime to the overwhelming.
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