Children
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AMERICAS
In Colombia, Armed Groups Recruit Children Through the Endless Scroll
Colombia’s armed groups are turning TikTok and Facebook feeds into recruitment corridors, using coded posts and recommendation algorithms to find…
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ANALYSIS
Colombia Turns Classroom Sex Education Into Its New Culture War
Colombia’s education minister says a “woke” campaign has infiltrated sex education, placing parents, teachers, churches, and children inside a widening…
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LIFE
Bolivia’s Cinema Archive Turns Fifty With Chaplin’s Youngest Memory Keepers
Children in bowler hats and painted mustaches filled La Paz’s Cinemateca Boliviana, celebrating fifty years of rescued reels, stubborn cultural…
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LIFE
Colombia Lets Memory Bloom Where War Recruited Children to Fight
Inside Bogotá’s “Volver a florecer,” survivor Nayeli Gutiérrez turns paper flowers, childhood drawings, and hard testimony into a warning: Colombia’s…
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AMERICAS
Guatemala Maras Trade Extortion Fear for Cocaine Cash and Control
Guatemala's police say Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 are moving beyond extortion into drug trafficking, a dangerous shift that could…
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ANALYSIS
Dominican Republic Child Abuse Crisis Exposes the Belt’s Dark Inheritance
An infant's killing in the Dominican Republic has reopened a national wound: child abuse, violent discipline, and family silence in…
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AMERICAS
Colombia’s Stolen Childhoods Put Peace Justice Back on Trial Again
The JEP's ruling against former FARC commanders forces Colombia to confront a wound beyond battlefield memory: children pulled into war,…
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AMERICAS
Haiti Faces Gangs as Childhood Becomes the Front Line Again
As a new multinational force arrives in Haiti, thousands of armed children stand between a security crackdown and any hope…
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Social Media
Brazil Writes New Rules as Childhood Battles the Algorithmic State
Brazil's new online child protection law is presented as a safeguard but also sparks a broader political debate across Latin…
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Education
Ecuador’s Yachay Wasi Teaches Climate Lessons Through Indigenous Language and a Garden
In Ecuador, a small intercultural bilingual school called Yachay Wasi treats environmental education as a political project rooted in Indigenous…
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