Chile’s biggest carnival is kicking off at full speed today. As many as 150,000 people have traveled to the northern Chilean ...

The coca plant has been cultivated in South America for thousands of years and used for a variety of ritual, spiritual, and ...

Centuries before the Conquista, or Spanish conquest, the Quechua and Aymara people of Peru celebrated a ceremony of burning coca leaves, agricultural products and other symbols of abundance to the ...

In Incan mythology, Mama Koka was the god of the coca plant which originally grew from her torn apart body. Today, coca ...

There’s a soulful power to the sounds drifting across the Andean highlands, where steep mountains and deep valleys have shaped centuries of musical heritage.

By Timothy J. Killeen One of the main social and economic challenges facing Amazonian countries is inequality. Although the standard of living of the lower economic strata is better now than at any ...

Long having been considered the ‘US’s backyard,’ Latin America is the crucible of anti-imperialist struggle – yet with the rise of China as an economic and ideological counterweight to Washington, we ...

Israeli hostage Arbel Yehoud, held by Hamas since October 7, 2023, was handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern ...