Camila Restrepo

World Correspondent, The Continental Times

Camila covers world for The Continental Times and has reported from more than a dozen countries.

Salvador Restores Its Colonial Heart Again, This Time Promising to Keep the Residents

A 320 million-real program in the Brazilian city’s Pelourinho district is rebuilding 140 crumbling 18th-century houses, with half the apartments reserved for the families who already live there.

Oct. 9, 2026 6 MIN READ

Chile’s State-Run Lithium Venture Ships Its First Cargo as Atacama Communities Press for a Share

The partnership between the national copper company and a private producer sent 4,000 tons of lithium carbonate to South Korea on Saturday, a milestone for the government’s strategy of keeping control of the mineral.

Oct. 9, 2026 6 MIN READ

Evaporation ponds on the Salar de Atacama in northern Chile, where brine is concentrated to produce lithium carbonate for batteries.

In Brazil, a City Hands Out Deeds to Homes That Were Never Supposed to Exist

Belo Horizonte has issued 31,000 property titles to residents of its hillside settlements under a program that uses drones and door-to-door surveys to map decades of informal construction.

Oct. 7, 2026 6 MIN READ

Houses climb the hillside of the Aglomerado da Serra in Belo Horizonte, one of Brazil’s largest informal settlements, where residents have begun receiving legal title to their homes.