Anastasia Moloney
Latin America Correspondent
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Anastasia Moloney is the Latin America and Caribbean correspondent based in Bogotá, Colombia. An award-winning journalist, Anastasia has a particular interest in climate change and the Amazon rainforest. Before joining the Thomson Reuters Foundation, she was a freelance journalist covering Colombia’s conflict, human trafficking and women’s rights issues for leading US and UK publications, including The Financial Times and The Guardian.
October 03, 2024
A year after Hurricane Otis ripped along Mexico's Pacific Coast, ghost resorts and dilapidation still dot the battered beaches.
Buildings stand empty. Breeze blocks strew the sands. And hotel bosses are busy clearing up last year's multi-billion-dollar mess even as they gear up for a new high season.
September 27, 2024
Haitian immigrants living in the Ohio city of Springfield have found themselves at the center of the heated debate around immigration, one of the key issues ahead of the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election.
Earlier this month during the U.S. presidential debate between Republican Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Kamala Harris, Trump repeated false claims that Haitian arrivals were eating household pets in Springfield.
September 17, 2024
IVF fertility treatment has become embroiled in the debate about abortion and reproductive rights, one of the key issues that divide the Republican and Democratic parties ahead of the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election.
The U.S. Senate is set to vote on Tuesday on a bill to enshrine federal protections and expand insurance coverage for fertility treatments.
September 11, 2024
The first presidential election debate between Republican Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Kamala Harris saw the candidates trade blows on abortion, an issue that divides the parties as fiercely as it splits the nation.
The Nov. 5 election marks the first presidential election since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in 2022, ending a federal right to the procedure.
September 10, 2024
With presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump locking horns in their first election debate of 2024, environmentalists will be watching for signals on how the United States’ will move forward on the transition to clean energy.
Democrat Kamala Harris supports the acceleration of renewable energy projects, while her Republican opponent Donald Trump, who is backed by oil company donations, has been an outspoken critic of such plans.
September 03, 2024
After coming out as non-binary, Argentine artist Federico Adorado searched fruitlessly for two years to secure a formal job that guaranteed a salary and access to healthcare.
But thanks to a trailblazing 2021 quota law that reserved 1% of public sector jobs for transgender, transsexual and non-binary people, the artist found an administrative job at the national film institute.
August 30, 2024
A year after Ecuador voted in a historic referendum to ban all oil drilling in a unique part of the Amazon rainforest, Indigenous leaders say the government has been slow to shut down wells in the oil-dependent South American nation.
On Aug. 20, 2023, more than 10 million people - almost 60% -voted to keep crude in the ground in the Yasuni national park in the Amazon.
August 22, 2024
A new U.S.-backed initiative to disrupt illicit financial flows from nature crimes such as illegal logging and mining in the Amazon rainforest has been welcomed by security experts, but the effort could be hampered by lawlessness and state weakness.
Launched by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in July, the plan is to boost cooperation in South America to tackle an illicit industry worth billions of dollars that is leaving a trail of destruction in the Amazon rainforest.
August 05, 2024
Food delivery driver John Jay Chan has had no protections from the record-breaking heatwaves that have hit the Philippines in recent months, but he must continue to work nine-hour days to provide for his family.
"We understand that the nature of our work means we're exposed to extreme heat," said Chan, a 30-year-old father of two, who has been a motorbike gig worker for the past six years.
July 31, 2024
The early morning calls to Argentina's domestic violence helpline during the weekend night shift are the most desperate in a country where a woman is murdered every 35 hours, often at the hands of her partner.
"We get calls at 3 a.m. from women who say, 'My husband will come home drunk, and when he's drunk, he hits me,'" said Gabriela, a call operator at the government-run 144 helpline who did not want to give her full name.