A town in Ecuador, aspiring to become a United Nations World Heritage Site, is slowly being destroyed by illegal gold mining. 
Zaruma, in the country’s south, is collapsing. Huge sinkholes, created by mine shafts below, have swallowed the local school and brought down homes. 
No one has been able...

It's well-known that Mexican drug cartels are heavily armed. What's, not as well known, is their firearms are made in the United States. Mexico is suing weapon manufacturers in the U.S. for what has become an out of control crisis within its borders. Alasdair Baverstock reports.   

Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the island of Española in the Caribbean. According to the World Bank, Haiti is the poorest country in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its increasingly dire economic situation has caused a rise in migration to the Dominican Republic.

As the migration crisis continues along the U.S. southern border, the dangers facing those seeking to enter the United States aren't only in Mexico. Some of the most perilous parts of the journey are on the U.S. side of the border. The crackdown by migration authorities over the years has forced ...

Illegal migration to the United States was on the rise during the pandemic. Migrants coming from South America normally fly to Mexico or other surrounding countries and continue on foot. But others walk through the Darien Gap, a dangerous jungle that connects South America with Central America. P...

Mexico's COVID death toll was one of the world's highest. And according to official data, roughly 1.5 million children lost at least one parent since March of 2020. Alasdair Baverstock reports on Mexico's pandemic orphans. 

He was born in California but his parents are from China. So qualifying for the Winter Olympics in Beijing was particularly personal for U.S. figure skater Vincent Zhou. His longtime dream? To win a medal in front of his grandparents from both sides of his family. All of them live in Beijing. But...

Ecuador was left reeling when at least 120 inmates were killed in a Guayaquil jail. Local gangs linked with Mexican drug cartels were behind the slaughter in what is believed to be a fight over territory. The riot was the worst prison massacre in Ecuador’s history. Some of the images in this repo...

During Colombia's internal armed conflict more than 6,000 people were murdered, that's according to the country's Justice Department. The dead were categorized as rebel fighters to inflate the number of combat kills. It's a case that is still under investigation. It has left thousands searching ...

Is Miami Beach sinking? So what exactly does that mean? The technical term is subsidence. It means the lowering of the surface due to the removal or compaction of materials below it. Sinkholes that open up primarily in central Florida are dramatic examples of subsidence. In the wake of the tragi...

Pirates and robbing ships at sea may seem like a thing of the past. But in Mexico, a region famous for pirates, the practice continues. And as Alasdair Baverstock reports, these modern-day pirates are well-armed and prepared for maritime warfare.

From accounting to banking, public service to politics and from academia to Bolivia's leader. Luis Arce was inaugurated in November of 2020, after a long tenure as the finance minister of former president Evo Morales. Americas Now anchor, Elaine Reyes, sat down with him to talk about the pandemi...

20 years ago the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shocked the course of geopolitics. It was particularly threatening for a community in California that saw destruction in both their home country and their host country. Correspondent Mike Kirsch reports on the largest A...

The pandemic has brought about the biggest shock to the global economy in decades. No country was prepared, but some were less prepared than others. Argentina was already two years into a recession when the first cases of the coronavirus were detected. And the country is notorious for its economi...

COVID-19 vaccinations are starting to increase in most Latin American countries. But for months there was a scarcity of vaccines. Thousands traveled north looking for inoculations. Airports were full and airfares rose to pre-pandemic levels. Alasdair Baverstock has the story.

Working remotely became a necessity during the pandemic. And many workers are so used to working from home, they don't want to leave. John Zarrella visited some businesses offering jobs that nobody wants.

It took them years to escape the violence of the Armed Conflict. Now economic and social problems have led Colombians back into confrontation. Michelle Begue went out to find out the reasons for the turmoil and unrest.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans have been under attack. The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism reported that in the largest cities in the United States, anti-Asian hate crime rose 149% in 2020. Mike Kirsch reports.   

People across the United States celebrated when former policeman Derek Chauvin was found guilty of three charges for the murder of George Floyd. 
Police brutality cases have sparked a national debate about what needs to be done to stop them. 
Dan Williams takes a deep dive into several alleged p...

Native Americans in the United States are both beholden to the federal government and independent of it. So when it comes to COVID-19 the tribes have been applying their own methods to fight the pandemic. Toby Muse traveled to one of the largest Native American reservations located in one of the ...

Mexico became one of the first countries in the Americas to roll out vaccinations. They began in December but, after the first quarter of 2021, inoculations reached less people than expected. Alasdair Baverstock visited the state of Chiapas, in the south of the country, to look at the vaccination...

In 2020, the Amazon region fell victim to more than 100,000 wildfires, more than any other year on record. 
One fifth of them occurred in the stretch of forest known as the Pantanal, which crosses three countries: Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia. 
Its biodiversity is unmatched. And it's home to uniq...

For several years, El Salvador, has been on the list of most dangerous countries in the world mainly due to street gangs like MS-13. But in 2020 the crime rates went down significantly. Was it because of the pandemic or is something else stopping violence? Harris Whitbeck has the answer.

In March 2020 most countries in the world went into lockdown as the COVID-19 outbreak turned into a pandemic. In Colombia the confinement lasted almost six months. Michelle Begue brings us a story of struggle and resilience.