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Saved by Backpacker-U Study AbroadCollections about Latin and South America - culture, travel, history
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Saved by Backpacker-U Study Abroada collection of resources for travelers preparing for a trip to Central America and / or the Caribbean Countries
Saved by Backpacker-U Study AbroadThis course explores the rich tapestry of travel tourism destinations and festivals around the world. Participants will delve into the cultural, historical, ...
Saved by Backpacker-U Study Abroada guide for foreigners to understanding Brazil
Saved by Backpacker-U Study AbroadBeyond Silicon Valley, we take a look at the upcoming Global Startup Ecosystems of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Saved by Backpacker-U Study AbroadThe median age of a country or region is the age that divides its population into two equal parts: half of the people are older, and half are young... (2026)
Climate, and geopolitics, the great green rivalry. Chinese clean technology is blooming and at America. Uncle Sam is worried. That is prompting anx... (2024)
Crime, abortion and socialism, not immigration, are the issues that rile them | The Americas (2024)
Political tumult is now the norm in the country | The Americas (2024)
Why Lula keeps meddling with Latin America’s top oil company. His worst instincts are undermining the national oil company’s hard-won gains | The A... (2024)
Commodities in the 21st century. A growing, greening world will be ravenous for Latin America’s commodities. Will it deliver? | The Americas (2023)
It must not squander the opportunity of the next commodity boom | Leaders (2023)
The Landless Workers Movement organizes Brazil’s poor to take land from the rich. It is perhaps the largest — and most polarizing — social movement... (2023)
Despite not being in Latin America, it offers cash, connections and creativity to the region | The Americas (2022)
Uber Technologies acquired 100% of Cornershop to make the Chilean startup part of its e-commerce long term bet at a reported ~USD3b+ valuation. The... (2021)
Global GDP contracted by 3% last year, but that of Latin America and the Caribbean fell by 7% | The Americas (2021)
It has had unintended consequences (2021)
Chile is outpacing Bolivia in extracting the important metal. (2019)
At TheVentureCity, the world is our oyster. We are a venture capital fund that invests globally, with no specific regional focus. We know that grea... (2019)
On Socialism - In the age of A.O.C., the lesson must be learned again. (2019)
Brazilian firm Equatorial Energia bought state-owned Eletrobras’s unit (LAHT) in northeastern Piaui State for a symbolic $13,500. Eletrobras, Lat... (2018)
Today the multinational space firm will launch the latest satellite for Europe’s Galileo (2018)
AFTER long recessions, Brazil and Argentina still cheer when good economic news comes out. In tiny Uruguay, sandwiched between them, it is old hat.... (2018)
In southern Ecuador, flowering guayacán trees paint the landscape yellow—but not for long. (2018)
WHEN Latin Americans contemplate Donald Trump many think they have seen his like before. Only a few years ago populist nationalists exercised volub... (2018)
WHILE Donald Trump was in Davos last week trying to persuade the global plutocracy that “America First” does not mean “America alone”, China’s fore... (2018)
By Natalia Martinez-Kalinina Argentina’s entrepreneurial, tech, and research sectors are on a remarkable upswing, and Buenos Aires is looking towar... (2017)
New York Times, 2017: "The American dissent on a General Assembly resolution condemning the embargo left the United States isolated again on the i... (2017)
Eduardo della Maggiora, the CEO of a newly minted Chilean unicorn, is moving to Miami next month and plans to open a Miami office that would likely... (2022)
This CFR Backgrounder looks at Venezuela's humanitarian crisis. President Nicolas Maduro’s efforts to consolidate power amid a deepening econom... (2017)
Kuczynski had previously denied any links to the company at the center of Latin America’s biggest corruption scandal (2017)
10 of the best Latin American novels – that will take you there | Literary trips | The Guardian (2020)
For 75 days straight, Costa Rica ran on 100% renewable electricity (2021)
Felicitas Carrique Contributor Share on Twitter Felicitas Carrique is an Argentinian reporter focused on media, technology, and innovation. The abu... (2018)
For five years, Rio de Janeiro was Stephanie Nolen’s home base as she showed Globe readers the lives and struggles of Latin America. Now, as she mo... (2018)
At the top of South America are three small territories. Until about ten years ago, not a single road connected them to the outside world. They are... (2024)
Learn everything there is to know about the #Geography of #Patagonia. From deep Fjords in the west to towering mountains and glaciers in the center... (2023)
In February I went to Ecuador for a months long solo trip. I spent an entire month exploring as much of the country I could. From the Amazon rainfo... (2023)
How did Brazil Become a Country?Once Portugal realized that this newfound land was on their side of the Tordesillas line, the initial goal was to e... (2023)
In this Patagonia Documentary I take you on one of my most memorable trips through Patagonia from north to south filled with loads of adventures al... (2022)
Sorry I took a week off, it was my birthday and I wasn't really feeling the birthday work. This is somewhat of an update to that old Laos introduct... (2020)
No bang, no excitement. Just some farmers living life. I thought the Volk deserved a story, too... (2020)
Vox Published on Oct 26, 2018 In 2014, the largest corruption scandal in Latin America’s history erupted in Brazil. It involved bribes between ... (2018)
Download a free audiobook version of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: https://adbl.co/2LHl4XM Check out our ... (2018)
National Geographic Documentary - The Maya: The Lost Civilization [Documentary 2015] (2018)
LastWeekTonight, 2016 "Puerto Rico is suffering a massive debt crisis. Lin-Manuel Miranda joins John Oliver to call for relief. (2017)
Through interviews with former Patagonia, Inc. CEO Kris Tompkins and the late Doug Tompkins, founder of The North Face, we learn the personal trans... (2019)
The seeds of the apparently sudden collapse of Venezuela’s once-proud oil industry were sown two decades ago. (2018)
The acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel memoir. Startin... (2014)