Direct action by an Argentine Mapuche community in the second largest non-conventional gas reserve in the world Communiqué MAPUCHE ACTION PLAN IN LOMA CAMPANA (VACA MUERTA GAS & OIL RESERVE, NEUQUÉN, ARGENTINA) Loma Campana, July […]
With the new book Evo’s Bolivia: Continuity and Change, authors Linda Farthing and Benjamin Kohl achieve an admirable balance of providing an excellent entry point for those with little background in Bolivia as well as key insights for scholars and activists with a long history in the country.
The women of El Barrio and the Zapatista women of La Realidad are two examples of how women in struggle all over the world are coming together to inspire and learn from each other, and how, in the process, women are transforming the world. […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas In December 2013, about a year after Colorado and Washington voters made their states the world’s first jurisdictions to legalize recreational marijuana markets, Uruguay enacted the world’s first national […]
Source: BBC News Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a series of agreements on nuclear energy in Argentina. It came during his tour of Latin America aimed at increasing Russian influence in the region. The […]
Mexico is emerging as the next big battleground in conflicts over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as the method of extracting natural gas is commonly known. While Mexican lawmakers consider regulatory legislation to put into practice the 2013 energy reform that opened up their county’s oil and gas reserves to private investors, anti-fracking forces are mobilizing for a moratorium or an outright ban of the controversial practice from the Mexican Congress.
Public prosecutors in Brazil have called on the government to pay 1.4 million reais (US$ 630,000) in compensation to Guarani Indians and to instal road signs, after eight Indians from one community were run over […]
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