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⬇️
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🇵🇪In Peru, tonnes of explosive artifacts exported to Bolivia are smuggled back in the country through the border

The material is used by illegal miners to mostly extract gold. ⛏

#IllegalDynamite 🧨

📌 How does this clandestine business operate? Read about it here:
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🚨🌲 #AgonyInDipilto

Since 2009, Daniel Ortega has passed 13 decrees to benefit timber companies that affect the Reserve of Dipilto in #Nicaragua.

What is the extent of this disaster?

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#ScienceWithInterests 🧪🧃 l Disregarding transparency, the ultra-processed food industry funded academic research in different public universities in #Mexico.

An investigation conducted by @poplab.bsky.social and #CONNECTAS.

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🍃In Tibu, the municipality with the most coca crops in #Colombia, farmers are desperately looking for a way out of the crisis: Suicidal thoughts, hunger, selling their bodies and displacement.

Read about it here. ➡️ https://www.connectas.org/especiales/crisis-de-la-coca-en-colombia/index-en.html

The life of a settlement in the Darien Gap has been upended. Locals, who used to rely on fishing and agriculture to make a living, now see a business opportunity in migrants and their families.

🔗👉🏽 https://www.connectas.org/especiales/bajo-chiquito-how-migration-transformed-a-village-in-the-jungle/

🇵🇪 In Peru, Deforestation, drug trafficking and business interests are affecting the last Kakataibo Indigenous peoples.

Read about it in #DispossessionInThe Amazon, a feature in alliance with @connectas.org, La Encerrona and La República.
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Four years ago, Lopez Obrador, president of Mexico 🌱🇲🇽 offered #CentralAmerica one of its main programs ➡️#SembrandoVida, in a process filled with inconsistencies, disorganization and barren crops.

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🇵🇪 In Peru, tonnes of explosive artifacts exported to Bolivia are smuggled back in the country through the border

The material is used by illegal miners to mostly extract gold. ⛏

#IllegalDynamite 🧨

📌 How does this clandestine business operate? Read about it here:
www.connectas.org/especiales/l...

In Guatemala, sexual exploitation of teenagers is planned from inside prisons. 🇬🇹

🚨Authorities are investigating the cases of 12 underage children who were recruited for prostitution in the last eight years.

#RapeBehindBars⛓️
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