Year: 2008
Community, Indigenous and Worker Alternatives to Transnational Mining
Four dozen labour, indigenous, peasant farmer, small and medium scale mining, and environmental organizations recently met in Bogotá at the Andean Forum in Response to Large Scale Mining to discuss the experiences struggling against the powerful transnational mining industry. […]
Latin America: The War on Democracy – Documentary Online
Chavez & Pilger Meet
The War on Democracy is John Pilger’s first major film for the cinema – in a career that has produced more than 55 television documentaries. Set in Latin America and the US, it explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.
Bolivia: Water, Energy Everywhere – But Not for Locals
(IPS) – Peasant farmers in 42 villages along the Zongo valley in western Bolivia stand by and watch as the flourishing electricity industry harnesses the swift-flowing river while, paradoxically, their own farms are languishing from […]
Refugees in Ecuador: Plan Colombia and the Asylum Lottery
This is the first part in a three-part series on asylum in Ecuador. The series deals with Ecuador’s response to the refugee crisis created by the ongoing conflict in Colombia, the daily challenges of surviving as a refugee in Ecuador, and how refugees are organizing themselves to demand their human rights. […]
Video: Marcha de Cocaleros Yungeños en La Paz, Bolivia
De 9/22-23/2008