Fact-checking
I'm a Colombia-based freelance journalist and fact-checker. My work has been published in BBC News, VICE World News, The Telegraph, NPR, Al Jazeera English, Rest of World, World Politics Review, and more. I have fact-checked for non-fiction authors, Rest of World, the British Medical Journal, and assisted checking for WIRED Magazine. Most recently I worked as a fixer and reporting assistant for another non-fiction book about Colombia, publishing from One World (Penguin Random House).
Fact-checking
As Narendra Modi's government clamps down on the free press, top journalists are going solo to report unbiased news.
Rest of World analyzed 3,000 AI images to see how image generators visualize different countries and cultures.
NHS trusts recorded more than 35 000 cases of rape, sexual assault, harassment, stalking, and abusive remarks between 2017 and 2022, but only one in 10 trusts has a dedicated policy to manage the problem.
ChatGPT's problems extend past copyright issues. It struggles with logic and translation errors in global languages that appear online less often than English.
How designer dupes of brands like Gucci, Burberry and Balenciaga make their way from sites like DHgate and AliExpress to markets across Nigeria.
As Chinese manufacturers open shop in Vietnam, Bac Ninh has become a cultural hub with Chinese restaurants, bubble tea shops, and language centers.
Indian internet is rife with AI versions of Narendra Modi singing a song. Using his voice for songs started as a meme, but is becoming a political tool.
Indian tech workers who were laid off in the U.S. and returned home say they have taken massive pay cuts and are earning less than their peers in India.
Delivery workers across Brazil protest bad customers by revving their engines, setting off fireworks, and blaring their horns at bad customers' homes.
ReelShort is a Chinese-backed streaming app available in the U.S. with vertical videos and short episodes, originally popularized by Quibi.
Brazil's president promised an ambitious plan to regulate gig work, but experts fear the new rules make things worse for gig workers like delivery drivers.
Hit songs like "Motoboy" and "Soy Rappi" have turned the hardships of life as a delivery driver into viral hits.
A Portuguese island created a village for remote workers, promising community to the newcomers and prosperity to the locals-then delivered on neither.
Tech
Defensoría al Repartidor was hailed as a neutral mediator between Rappi and its drivers, but workers claim it lacks autonomy from the company.
Nelson Farias works nine hours a day in a house-turned-webcam studio in the La Aguacatala neighborhood of Medellín, Colombia's second-largest city. His desk setup consists of three screens, which he uses to monitor the live, erotic webcam performances of nine models performing for clients all around the world.
Since the pandemic began, Colombian entrepreneurs have been using WhatsApp and Instagram to build e-commerce businesses.
The Colombian unicorn's alumni are outpacing the PayPal mafia in startup creation.
On May 29, Rodolfo Hernández, an anti-establishment politician, defied pollsters' expectations when he progressed to Colombia's 2022 presidential election runoff later this month. There, he will face Gustavo Petro, the left-wing former mayor of Bogotá.
Marcela Torres is on the hunt for Joystick's first video game investment in Latin America but also wants to build safe communities for online gamers.
Salvador da Bahia gave the world samba and capoeira, now it wants to give us tech startups too, says Vale do Dendê's Paulo Rogério Nunes.
Global Health
'I have to go out to work. If I don't, this pandemic won't kill us, hunger will' When María Orfilia fled the Emberá Chamí indigenous community in Risaralda, Colombia 20 years ago she thought she was escaping danger.
These side effects can cause patients to abandon treatment, Dr Vélez says. Additionally, injections can only be administered by medical professionals, so patients must travel to hospitals to receive them. The first choice treatment for leishmaniasis is a 28-day course of Miltefosine tablets.
Last month, we asked our audience: What are some of the inventive ways that people are addressing COVID-19 challenges in their community? Dozens of NPR readers wrote in with nominees. Many are people who have found ways to put their special skills and talents to good use.
From a generous urban farmer to a roving mariachi band, people are using their talents to help others. Read their stories - then nominate a problem-solver in your community.
"My friends, hello!" shouted a voice from the street. "Does anyone have any food to spare?" "The local government hasn't helped me. I really need your help," a man walking the streets of Medellín shouted up to residents in their apartment blocks, begging for money.
Gender
A woman who had become separated from the group she was protesting with felt a tug on the homemade flag she was wearing as a cape during an anti-government demonstration in the capital, Bogotá, in the early hours of 3 June.
A few months after arriving in Colombia with her three children, Evaluna, a then 22-year-old migrant from Venezuela, discovered she was pregnant. "I felt scared; I was very depressed," she said, after finding out the news. "I had no way of maintaining [the baby] because I didn't have a job."
The last thing that Pamela Lorduy remembers from June 8, 2019 was having an argument with her boyfriend at the time. The following day, she woke up in hospital. She had broken her pelvis in six places, three ribs, four vertebrae, her tibia, fibula, heel bone, ankle, sacrum, and humerus bone.
Human Rights
While official rates of domestic violence against children recorded from March to April decreased by 32 per cent compared to the same period last year, Paola González, an investigator at the Ideas for Peace (FIP) think tank, believes this year's figures are grossly under-reported.
People protest in February to demand jail for those allegedly involved in the cases of abuse of minors that occurred in orphanages in Panama. Photo by LUIS ACOSTA, AFP via Getty Images.
Transitional Justice
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has made no secret of his admiration for the country’s dictatorship, which ended in 1985. For many who suffered under it, the prevailing political discourse these days reinforces the notion that the dictatorship is a chapter of Brazilian history that hasn’t been fully closed.
"Beforehand, I only knew how to drink beer," Mr Monroy tells the Telegraph. But thanks to a group of brewers who offered to teach his team, he's now an expert in brewing La Trocha's signature porter-style beer. "Since we come from a military organisation we're very disciplined ...
Migration
The border between Colombia and Panama remains closed, and people wanting to head north across the Darien Gap must wait in improvised camps. NECOCLÍ, Colombia - "We're human beings! Where are our human rights?" shouted Nikelson St. Fleur in protest yesterday outside the town hall in Necoclí, Colombia alongside a group of 80 Haitian migrants.
Culture
Lost children! Angry lovers! Time travel! A show referred to as 'The Muslim Game Of Thrones" We asked reporters to tell us about the shows that people are obsessing around the world.
Video
'Bicycle cinema' aims to bring people together in the Colombian city of Medellín by bringing film to its underprivileged communities.
Podcast
An inside look into the process our journalists go through to report the top stories in the region.