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Watch A Tapir Scratch An Itch With His Enormous, Prehensile Penis
I don't even know where to start with this one. There are four species of Tapir, all of which are endangered. A herbivorous mammal that can be found in the grasslands of Central and Southern America, across the Andes and in Southeast Asia, the tapir is a quirky-looking creature with a hog-like body and short gripping proboscis, or trunk.
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Indigenous Languages in Latin America
Although Latin America is often associated with the colonial Spanish and Portuguese languages, it is a place of remarkable linguistic diversity. Hundreds of language families and more than two thousand languages have been spoken in the region.
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Can a Michael Jackson Song Resurrect an Ancient Language?
Renata Flores' version of Michael Jackson's 'The way you make me feel' has become a YouTube hit in South America. Something neither she nor her mother expected when they first made the video in Quechua, the language of the Incas .
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Brazil Girds for Protests as Rousseff Faces Impeachment Risk
As allegations of corruption and incompetence swamp Brazil’s government, and plummeting commodity prices sap its economy, hundreds of thousands of angry citizens are expected to descend on central squares across the country on Sunday, posing a key test for President Dilma Rousseff. By Anna Edgerton.
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Brazil Protesters Keep Pressure on President Rousseff
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators returned to the streets in dozens of Brazilian cities on Sunday to call for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.
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Protests
A demonstrator with the design of the national flag in her eyes attends a protest against Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, part of nationwide protests calling for her impeachment
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This Tortoise Beetle Looks Like a Ladybug Re-Mix
Tortoise beetles are a subfamily of leaf beetles called Cassidinae.
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Brazil Plans for 29 Green Energy Projects Totalling 669.5MW
Brazil has approved construction of 29 power facilities in the country totalling 669.5MW of clean energy capacity. Around 19 of the projects, at 538MW, will be generating electricity from wind power, with the rest using biomass, natural gas, and small hydropower sources.
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Patagonia’s subterranean, moon-like landscape
Getting to Patagonia’s Viedma Glacier requires a day’s hike – but the landscape’s raw, sculpted beauty and striking glacial caves make the trek more than worth it.
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29th August 1533 - Pizarro Executes Last Inca Emperor
Atahuallpa, the 13th and last emperor of the Incas, dies by strangulation at the hands of Francisco Pizarro’s Spanish conquistadors. The execution of Atahuallpa, the last free reigning emperor, marked the end of 300 years of Inca civilization.
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How Food Became Religion in Peru's Capital City
Great cooking is what defines Lima today, but the culinary boom started decades ago, during a time of conflict.
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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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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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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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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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What "Narcos" Gets Wrong About the War on Drugs
The Netflix show distorts history and misrepresents the conflict
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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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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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[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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Santana - Smooth ft. Rob Thomas
Santana's official music video for 'Smooth' ft. Rob Thomas.
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