Pay to Play: How One City’s Growth Fuels Corruption and Environmental Destruction in Western Honduras
Just before midnight on September 15, 2023, four masked men dressed in all black walked down an alley just north…
Environmental Destruction or Community Development? A Mayor’s Struggle in Western Honduras
It was around 4:00 a.m. on January 26, 2024, when residents of the San Juan neighborhood of San Manuel de…
What Happened When An Extractive Model Came to Honduras?
In May 2011, former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa welcomed around 1,300 local and foreign investors to the industrial hub…
No Man’s Land: How Drug Trafficking Took Root in the Disputed Essequibo Territory
When soldiers and anti-drug officials dug up 4.4 tons of cocaine at an illegal airstrip in northwest Guyana on August…
False Promises: How Essequibo’s Mineral Wealth Spurs Human Trafficking
There was a familiar element when police in Guyana’s capital of Georgetown raided the Red Dragon nightclub in the early…
A Golden Opportunity: Maduro and Venezuelan Miners Target Essequibo
Just after 5 p.m. on May 13, 2025, shots rang out along the Cuyuní River, as troops from the Guyana…
The Women Working the Streets
Paulina has worked as a sex worker on the streets of Lima, the capital of Peru, for 15 years. With…
The Women Enslaved by Fines
When Isabel* accepted a job as a saleswoman in Peru from her cousin, Catalina*, she never imagined that months later,…
How Fentanyl Producers in Mexico Are Adapting to a Challenging Market
When Mario* heard the news in mid-May 2023, he immediately suspended his operations. After five years of booming fentanyl trafficking…
What Happened When Guatemala’s Interior Ministry Tried to Fire 102 Prison Guards It Accused of Corruption?
In June 2024, Guatemala’s Interior Ministry filed a legal complaint with the Attorney General’s Office against 102 prison guards it…