Philip Brian Tabuas

Assignment Photo Editor for Latin America @business. Views are my own.

[Stephen Wicary @wicary]

Historic flooding has devastated the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, home to 11 million people. And more rain is on the way, @danielcarvalho_ @eroston report, with photos curated by @pbtabuas https://t.co/rWxbaTnKuz

[Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) @Rainforest_RIN]

The electric Ford F-150 is sold as a way to drive green. But at what cost?

@pulitzercenter RIN Fellow @JessicaVBrice & @SheridanAsia traced much of the aluminum in the truck to a refinery accused of sickening thousands of people. @climate 👉 https://t.co/ctx6KFpgCr

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[Sheridan Prasso @SheridanAsia]

Listen to the podcast version of our latest investigation, on the troubled trail of aluminum from the Amazon rainforest to the Ford F-150 EV

[Robert Friedman @rfriedman305]

A bauxite mine three times as big as Manhattan in Brazil's rainforest, an 800-mile trip down the Amazon, a refinery accused of poisoning thousands of people. @SheridanAsia and @JessicaVBrice on the Ford F-150 EV's aluminum supply chain. https://t.co/E4WI6FUUNd via @bbgvisualdata

[Bloomberg @business]

The electric Ford F-150 was pitched as a way to drive green. But an investigation by Bloomberg traced much of the aluminum in the truck to a refinery in the Amazon accused of sickening thousands of people.

Read The Big Take ⬇️ https://t.co/Q2sO2clejm

[Bloomberg Originals @bbgoriginals]

Impoverished Venezuelans left behind by a nascent economic rebound have turned to collecting salt https://t.co/IHp8W8F0sj

[Bloomberg @business]

Venezuelans left behind by a nascent economic rebound have turned to collecting salt https://t.co/j0AXxHxVcg

[Philip Brian Tabuas @pbtabuas]

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[Ezra Fieser @ezrafieser]

Disappearing rapidly are many of the formerly ubiquitous odes to “revolution,” such as the Orwellian depictions of #Chavez’s eyes, and slogans slapped on billboards with some version of the message “socialism or death.”
@zerpius #Venezuela https://t.co/9FLASrBe52

[Bloomberg Green @climate]

Cleaner air, greener cities, shifted politics: Experts speculate on 8 possible outcomes by the decade’s end from $374 billion in US climate spending https://t.co/ggc7RjzgKL

[Bloomberg @business]

NEW: Decades of illegal mining went unchecked in one Ecuador town — then a sinkhole swallowed downtown.

Read The Big Take ⬇️ https://t.co/pb7kGUC0kg

[JP Spinetto @JPSpinetto]

I wrote here about another factor that's adding instability to Latin America's already complex political outlook: fuel prices
https://t.co/qY5zouTnha @BBGNewEconomy @economics

[Bloomberg @business]

Millions of Americans will soon find themselves in abortion deserts, meaning they will have to travel hundreds or thousands of miles to access the medical procedure https://t.co/jKpZBv5u53

[Bloomberg @business]

JUST IN: Colombia elects former guerrilla and ex-Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro as president, potentially setting up the most radical change in the nation's recent history. His rival Rodolfo Hernandez has conceded. https://t.co/A6arbLKZgv

[Bloomberg @business]

After a turbulent four-year term, Bolsonaro is trailing Lula in polls.

But signs of support in places like his predecessor’s home state of Pernambuco suggest the incumbent isn’t down and out just yet https://t.co/c6NcSBdOpY

[Bloomberg Originals @bbgoriginals]

6 million people fled Venezuela after hyperinflation, famine and grid collapses created a humanitarian crisis.

Now, in a surprising reversal, tens of thousand are coming home again. @NicolleYapur reports https://t.co/OAu6gaZfYp

[Kostas Tsakalidis @k_tsakalidis]

I am very happy for the honorable recognition as a regional European winner in the World Press Photo 2022 competition, for my photo from the catastrophic forest fires on the island of Evia. @WorldPressPhoto #WPPh2022

[Bloomberg @business]

A protected national park in Venezuela has turned into a playground for the country’s nouveau riche https://t.co/rx9KlRxNrc via @citylab