Protesters gathered outside the Ministry of Energy and Mines in Quito on Tuesday, rallying against the awarding of the country's largest oil field to a Chinese-Canadian consortium.

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At recent international tribunal, 14 companies found guilty of exploiting Indigenous lands for mineral extraction across ...

LOS ANGELES — The body of water formerly known in the United States as the Gulf of Mexico is now listed for U.S.-based users of Google Maps as the Gulf of America. The change follows an ...

A growing number of Latin American migrants who have given up hope of reaching the United States are returning to their home countries in South America through a sea route in Panama, which poses ...

"I went to go look for myself on Google Maps, and sure enough ... "I would like to draw attention to this disgusting display of American oppression of Canadian culture and autonomy," the woman ...

Apple maps and Bing Maps have also changed the name to Gulf of America on their apps. Here's what to know about the recent switch and the names some people have given it using a new site by MapQuest.

Jeff Jacoby hit the nail on the head about the absurdity of President Trump’s changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico (“A pox on both sides in the ‘Gulf of America’ brawl,” Opinion ...

Google, Apple and Bing Maps have changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America following an executive order from President Trump. MapQuest has not yet updated its map to reflect Trump's order.

After mapmakers in 1507 first attached the label America to a massive world map printed in France, they began to have serious misgivings about their choice of words. A mere six years later ...