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Guyana Is Trying To Keep Its Oil Blessing From Becoming a Curse

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Reporting: Patricia Laya
Photography: José A. Alvarado Jr.
Photo Editing: Philip Brian Tabuas

The tiny Caribbean nation has the fastest-growing economy in the world, but the boom is stoking challenges from inflation and a growing wealth gap to the looming threat of conflict with Venezuela.

 

Ford’s Electric pickup is built from metal that’s damaging the amazon

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Reporting: Sheridan Prasso & Jessica Brice
Photography & Videography: Jonne Roriz
Photo Editing: Philip Brian Tabuas & Maria Wood

A Bloomberg investigation traced much of the aluminum in the F-150 to a refinery in Brazil accused of sickening thousands of people.

 
Illegal mining has exploded around the world. One Ecuador town is being consumed by miners' sinkholes.

A Town Built on Gold is being swallowed by the earth

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Reporting: Peter Millard & Stephan Kueffner
Photography: Vicente Gaibor
Videography: Hernan Salcedo
Photo Editing: Philip Brian Tabuas

Illegal mining has exploded around the world. One Ecuador town is being consumed by miners' sinkholes.

 
Colombia’s Putumayo province is a key supplier of the unprecedented increase in cocaine production.

The Golden Age of Cocaine Is Happening Right Now

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Reporting: Matthew Bristow
Photography: Esteban Vanegas
Photo Editing: Philip Brian Tabuas

The global fallout is showing up everywhere from the warehouses of Antwerp to coup plots in West Africa and bringing violence, corruption and big profits.

 
Ranchers herd cattle in the Brazilian Amazon.

How Big Beef Is Fueling the Amazon’s Destruction

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Reporting: Jessica Brice
Photography & Videography: Jonne Roriz
Photo Editing: Philip Brian Tabuas

The world’s biggest beef producer says it has no tolerance for rainforest deforestation. Bloomberg’s analysis shows that’s not true—and Brazilian law isn’t helping.

 

A Winemaker’s 50-Year Bet on Surviving Climate Change

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Reporting: Laura Millan Lombrana
Photography: Tamara Merino
Photo Editing: Philip Brian Tabuas

It starts right now, with sheep in Patagonia.

 

When the Seawater Turns Pink, Poor Venezuelans Rush to Cash In

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Reporting: Patricia Laya
Photography: Matias Delacroix
Photo Editing: Philip Brian Tabuas

The Pampatar salt flats attract hundreds left behind by economic rebound.

 

Setback in Quest for Indigenous Rights Roils Chile, Creating Challenges for Its New President

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Reporting: Eduardo Thomson
Photography: Cristobal Olivares
Photo Editing: Philip Brian Tabuas

Extremist Mapuche groups in the south of the country are increasing the intensity of their attacks.

 

The Country That Makes Breakfast for the World Is Plagued by Fire, Frost and Drought

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Reporting: Peter Millard, Fabiana Batista, and Leslie Patton
Photography & Videography: Jonne Roriz
Photo Editing: Philip Brian Tabuas

Brazil’s crops have been scorched, frozen and then dried out by the worst drought in a century, upending global commodity markets.

 

Hugo Chavez and Socialism Get Erased From the Caracas Skyline

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Reporting: Fabiola Zerpa & Ezra Fieser
Photography: Gaby Oraa
Photo Editing: Philip Brian Tabuas

Ads for jeans and makeup replace Socialist symbols.

 
Berrios outside his Yungay neighborhood record store as police officers stop a vehicle with no license plate. Photographer: Tamara Merino/Bloomberg

Why Chile’s President Moved Into a High-Crime Santiago Neighborhood

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Reporting: Eduardo Thomson
Photography: Tamara Merino
Photo Editing: Philip Brian Tabuas

The newly elected Gabriel Boric wants to send a message about reviving areas that have fallen prey to crime and poverty. So far, residents are seeing improvements.

 

Argentina’s 120-Year-Old Cattle Auction Is Leaving Buenos Aires

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Reporting: Jonathan Gilbert
Photography: Anita Pouchard Serra & Sarah Pabst
Photo Editing: Philip Brian Tabuas

The iconic market is moving to windswept pampas outside the city.

 

South America’s Glaciers May Have a Bigger Problem Than Climate Change

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Reporting: Laura Millan Lombrana
Photography: Tomas Munita
Photo Editing: Philip Brian Tabuas

Massive layers of ice cover some of the continent’s rich copper deposits. Uncovering those minerals threatens to hasten their demise.

 

Life In Caracas column

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Photo Editing: Philip Brian Tabuas

A series of short stories that seeks to capture the surreal quality of living in a land in total disarray.

 
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Woodstock, Nixon, Stonewall and the Man on the Moon: 50 Years Since 1969

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Reporting: Ian Fisher
Photo Editing: Marisa Gertz and Philip Brian Tabuas

The ’60s had to go out with a bang. Few years would top 1968, with its extremes of love and violence as the boomers clawed their way to dominance. If 1969, now half a century ago, was a period, it ended a very full sentence that anticipated the next.