Watch Latin America

For centuries local Indios have been climbing up South America's highest volcano, the Chimborazo in Ecuador, to pick ice from the glaciers and sell it to the markets in Riobamba and other villages at the foot of this majestic mountain.

The Brazilian Roman Catholic Church has been unable to avoid a recent trend sweeping across Latin America, which has seen a rise in the popularity of evangelical groups at the expense of the established churches.

The Maya represent one of the most enigmatic mysteries of the ancient world. They were a people who thrived in the jungles of Central America, building vast cities with imposing pyramids, temples and palaces.

Globalisation has also been long under way in Brazil: powerful concerns buy up entire rain forests and deforest them in order to plant fields of Soya for the international market.

Covered by the dense jungle of the Yucatan peninsula in South Eastern Mexico lie the ruins that witnessed a grand civilization, long perished.