VICE International

VICE en Español spent the day at Punta de Rieles, talking to inmates and learning about Uruguay's progressive "open" prison.

In Paraguay, as many as one in two people are considered obese. But beauty has many forms, and in Asuncion, there’s a unique pageant catering to a particular kind of beauty.

Where luchadores use blades, fluorescent lightbulbs, chairs, and barbed wire to leave their opponents as bloodied and battered as possible.

VICE met up with a pair of drag queens from Beijing as they prepared for a major ball in Shanghai, following along before they hit the stage for a competition with dozens of other queens.

The Australian bush is full of drugs, you just have to know where to look. We went foraging for naturally-occurring substances in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges.

China's Enbo Fight Club has trained more than 100 orphans and children from impoverished Tibetan communities to be MMA fighters, giving kids like Banma Duoji—a rising star already winning professional matches at 18—a chance to thrive.

Since he first started skating, Luo Jian Shen has always tried to punch above his weight—a commitment that's helped make him one of the only pros in Guangzhou, China.

We revisit the trans community in China to hear how one trans woman is recovering after her gender reassignment surgery, and meet an advocacy group dedicated to educating people about transgender issues.

We trekked to China to explore the country's edible insect industry and explored the financial and sustainability benefits of harvesting and cooking up bugs.

We visit the capital of China's edible insect industry to check out a bug market, visit a wasp farm, and dine with a local chef who specializes in cuisine that places insects at the center of every dish.

VICE China met up with trans men and woman across the country to hear about the discrimination they face at work, in social circles, and among family—and what they're doing to transform their place in Chinese society.

In Greece, where adoption is a long and difficult process, some couples result to working with traffickers to take infants from Bulgaria and smuggle them across the border.