Fracking Expands Under the Radar on Mexican Lands

June 29, 2015 Emilio Godoy 0

“People don’t know what ‘fracking’ is and there is little concern about the issue because it’s not visible yet,” said Gabino Vicente, a delegate of one of the municipalities in southern Mexico where exploration for unconventional gas is forging ahead. […]

Evo Morales Greenlights TIPNIS Road, Oil and Gas Extraction in Bolivia’s National Parks

June 29, 2015 Emily Achtenberg 0

On May 20, Bolivian President Evo Morales issued Supreme Decree 2366, opening up Bolivia’s national parks—which are protected under the Constitution as ecological reserves—to oil and gas extraction. Just two weeks later, Morales proclaimed that his on-again, off-again plan to build a highway through the TIPNIS national park and indigenous territory in the Bolivian Amazon will finally be realized.

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Mexico’s Grassroots Caravans for Water, Land, Work and Life

June 23, 2015 Victor M. Quintana 0

The three contingents of the Caravan in Defense of Water, of the Land, and of Work and Life converged in Mexico City on May 22. The Yaqui tribe led the caravans, heading out May 11, to traverse the entire country from three routes: northwest, northeast and the south. When they arrived at their destination, their numbers had swelled with hundreds of grassroots activists from many different causes, organizations and locations. […]

Roger Burbach, Presente!

June 18, 2015 Michael Fox 0

Roger Burbach passed away in Berkeley, California, on March 5 at the age of 70. The Latin Americanist academic, author and activist would have turned 71 on June 18.

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