
Max Radwin
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Staff Writer covering LatAm for @Mongabay. Environment, organized crime, politics. Likes+RTs are not endorsements. Send tips to [email protected]
Mexico City
Joined January 2019
A few months back, we rode #Mexico's #TrenMaya in search of deforestation and other environmental harm. Check out our video to see what we found. @MongabayOrg .
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RT @oak_institute: .@MongabayOrg “The Biden administration talks a big game about using targeted sanctions to hold #HumanRights violators a….
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Hopped on the @TrenMayaMX last month to see what all the fuss was about. My article for @MongabayOrg 👇.
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CANCÚN, Mexico — The Mexican government finally opened its huge, controversial train project last December, connecting Cancún and Tulum with the rest of the Yucatán Peninsula. And yet, despite all...
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RT @SEALAwards: Despite Canada’s ‘climate forward’ public image, it acts as a safe haven for extractive industries and companies operating….
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MEXICO CITY — Canada has become a major force in Latin America. It’s spent the last 30 years beefing up its portfolio with investments in mining, oil and natural gas. It’s established free trade...
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RT @SEALAwards: Congratulations to our 2023 Environmental Journalism Award Winners! . We are proud to celebrate these twelve brave and reso….
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RT @SOSOrinoco: El levantamiento de las sanciones sobre el oro y el petróleo podría frenar los esfuerzos de conservación en #Venezuela. ➡️….
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Last month, the U.S. agreed to lift some sanctions on Venezuela in exchange for a roadmap to presidential elections, tentatively scheduled for the second half of next year. The deal required months...
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#Suriname is over 90% forest but the country is weighing land sales to Mennonite farmers, who've been a major driver of deforestation in other parts of Latin America. Story for @MongabayOrg 👇.
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Foreign land developers have spent the past several years working to bring Mennonite farming communities from across Latin America to Suriname with the plan of starting a series of agriculture...
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RT @amnestypress: Today marks 50 years since the 11 September 1973 coup in #Chile. Thousands of people were killed under Augusto Pinochet’s….
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Exercising historical memory is vital for the country’s future
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The rise and fall of a king. A patrol through the jungle gone awry. Read my latest @MongabayOrg feature on land rights in #Panama 👇.
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CHANGUINOLA, Panama — Long before the Naso peoples in the northern jungles of Panama won the fight for their land, before a king came from far away to lead them against the invaders and cattle...
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RT @MongabayOrg: In Panama, an Indigenous kingdom fights for its right to the forest
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CHANGUINOLA, Panama — Long before the Naso peoples in the northern jungles of Panama won the fight for their land, before a king came from far away to lead them against the invaders and cattle...
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RT @LatoyaAbulu: Exceptional, essential piece by @MaxRadwin about what goes into making - and maintaining - an Indigenous kingdom. A @Mon….
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RT @AFrontlines: Critics question causes behind major new oil spill in #Ecuador's Amazon. "If we’re talking about sabotage, the gov't would….
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RT @oak_institute: .@Mineros_sa Chemicals leaked from a processing plant of subsidiary #Hemco in a protected reserve in #Nicaragua contam….
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RT @MattFiner: "Mennonite soy farms have been a main driver of deforestation. " in Bolivian Amazon. “What’s happened over last 30 years is….
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Mennonites, often searching for new land to expand their simple, rural lifestyles, have founded hundreds of communities across Latin America over the last century. In forested areas, particularly the...
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RT @mongabay: Costa Rica announced an all-out ban on the fishing of hammerhead sharks. Despite being critically endangered, hammerhead shar….
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For a government that's banned mining, @nayibbukele sure is doing a lot to promote mining.
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MEXICO CITY — It was considered a major environmental victory, back in 2017, when El Salvador’s government announced it would be the first country in the world to issue a total ban on metal mining....
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RT @LatoyaAbulu: The Nicaragua govt stays quiet on what exactly is happening to the environment. But satellite data show severe encroachmen….
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It’s hard to know exactly what’s happening to the environment in Nicaragua. Data on everything from mining to deforestation to biodiversity loss is nearly impossible to get from the government....
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RT @LatoyaAbulu: New report: forests managed by Indigenous communities tend to be carbon sinks rather than carbon sources, while areas unde….
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RT @MattFiner: Illegal gold mining accelerating deforestation in one of Venezuela’s most threatened national parks, new report from @ACA_DC….
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Illegal gold mining is accelerating deforestation in one of Venezuela’s most threatened national parks, a new report from Amazon Conservation revealed. Satellite imagery analyzed by the NGO shows...
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RT @ianjmorse: Double hitter on Bolivia's lithium moves from @mongabay, @MaxRadwin and me.with input from @MondacaWaliki @jczuleta @Comcipo….
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