Michael Fox

Michael Fox is a Latin America-based audio producer and media maker.


Security concerns to decide Ecuador’s presidential election this weekend

Elections

Ecuadorians head to the polls this Sunday, in one of the most hotly contested elections in decades. Thirty-seven-year-old President Daniel Noboa, the son of a banana tycoon, is facing off against former National Assembly member and leftist Luisa González. Security is the top issue on the table, as both candidates promise to tackle the rising narco-gang violence that has given Ecuador one of the highest homicide rates in Latin America. Michael Fox has the story from the capital, Quito.

La Paz’s cable car system — the world’s longest and highest — is cutting down commute times

Transportation

Preserving the world’s earliest mummies in Chile

Lifestyle & Belief

Chile’s pet cemeteries are beloved. But they raise environmental and health concerns.

Lifestyle & Belief

Chile’s Indigenous carnival kicks off in the city of Arica

Arts, Culture & Media

Mapuche sports help Indigenous Chileans revive culture

Sacred Spaces

Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche people have long fought the government over land claims. They’ve faced discrimination and assimilation in Chilean society. But some Mapuche communities are now turning the page. And they’re using an ancestral sport to help protect and revive their culture, customs and language.

Argentina tries to fight the theft of its precious meteorites

Culture

Northern Argentina’s Campo del Cielo is where the world’s largest mass of meteorites has been found. And it has also been plagued by theft for years, something Argentina is trying to fight.

Chileans grapple with legacy of 2019 protests 5 years later 

Protest

In October 2019, huge protests exploded across Chile. They began against increased public transportation fees, but they soon grew into the largest protest movement the country had seen since the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Those in the streets dreamed of transforming the country, but five years later, reforms have yet to be made.

‘Guaraní is identity’: How an Indigenous Paraguayan language has endured through the ages

Language

In Paraguay, the Indigenous Guaraní language is spoken as an official language alongside Spanish. Most Paraguayans speak Guaraní or a mixture of Spanish and Guaraní as their first language, whether they are of Indigenous descent or not. 

The Itaipu dam: A massive binational collaboration between Paraguay and Brazil

Infrastructure

Itaipu is one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world. It provides electricity to 80 million people in Brazil and Paraguay. Not only is it huge, but it represents a unique model of cross-border energy cooperation.

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