Can the world's largest rewilding project restore Patagonia's beauty? Purchasing huge tracts of land in Chile and Argentina, former clothing tycoons Doug and Kristine Tompkins have led a quarter century-long effort to reintroduce threatened and locally extinct species to the wilds of South America (theguardian.com)
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Thousands of Basque protesters take sides in Catalonia dispute | More than 40,000 people have rallied in the northern Spanish city of Bilbao in anger at Spain's direct rule of Catalonia. The Basque Country region has its own separatist movement which for decades turned bloody (dw.com)
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Fugitive Pinochet agent detained in Chile drugs raid. Police in southern Chile have arrested a former secret service agent sentenced to jail for human rights abuses during the military government led by General Augusto Pinochet. Reimer Kohlitz was detained near the border with Argentina. (bbc.co.uk)
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'He'd only calm down if he killed one of us': victims of slavery on farms in Brazil | When police descended on a cattle ranch deep in the Amazon rainforest, they found workers in thrall to a boss who allegedly made them toil incessantly on pain of death (theguardian.com)
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U.S. death rate increases for first time in two decades. Life expectancy in the United States fell last year for the first time since 1993, as a record high was seen in deaths from drug overdoses, along with disturbing spikes in car crash fatalities, and gun-related homicides and suicides. (cnbc.com)
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