Source: The Guardian Unlimited Latin America NGO director Omaira Bolaños explains the barriers to getting women’s voices heard in climate change talks How is deforestation and climate change affecting the lives of indigenous women? Women […]
Source: CISPES On July 31, El Salvador’s National Legislative Assembly passed a package of tax reforms aimed at shifting the fiscal burden from the nation’s poor majority to the wealthy elite and easing the country’s […]
Source: teleSUR English The World Bank was criticized by its internal auditor on Monday for not properly carrying out adequate environmental and social safeguards before lending money to Honduras’ largest bank. This is the second […]
If former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt’s trial for genocide symbolized an opportunity for the courts in Guatemala to rid themselves of their history of gag rules and the annulment of proceedings, then the virtual dismissal of Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz was the old order putting its collective foot down and demanding a return to power.
Source: Alternet It is impossible to understand the root causes of the current wave of Central Americans arriving to the United States, and therefore the appropriate U.S. response, without acknowledging the historical relationship between the […]
The leading mining companies in Peru have brought a rash of lawsuits to fight an increase in the tax they pay to cover the costs of inspections and oversight of their potentially environmentally damaging activities.
Source: La Jornada Practically every month meetings of popular organizations take place in the most remote corners of Mexico. At these meetings, they try to find ways to face the dispossession of their land, territories […]
Source: The Americas Blog After penning an op-ed which blames the U.S. backed cold war and drug war for leading to the recent surge in migration from Central America, the Guatemalan President has hired a […]
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