Honduras announced last week that it will temporarily take control of oil storage terminals as part of a program to lower fuel prices and combat "energy terrorism." "It is not a nationalization, it’s a temporary […]
Ecuador’s President-elect Rafael Correa is already hearing threats from Congress that they will block his proposed political reforms. Correa’s political party holds no seats in Congress. "This democracy is the property of 13 million Ecuadoreans, […]
A draft law which legalizes illegal genetically modified cotton varieties in Brazil has passed in the lower house of congress and is likely to pass in the Senate. The bill is sponsored by Paulo Pimenta […]
Colombia’s Interior Minister denounced a conspiracy to murder right-wing paramilitary fighters in order to protect the country’s political elite. Minister Carlos Holguin said that the murder of Jamie Andres Angarita last week was part of […]
Friday marks the ten year anniversary of the signing of Guatemala’s Peace Accords, which ended the country’s 36-year civil war. The war, one of Latin America’s bloodiest, left some 200,000 mostly indigenous people dead and tens […]
The Trinidad government rejected U.S. based ALCOA’s attempt to build a projected $1.5 billion aluminum smelter in the southwestern part of the country. The government decided to "immediately discontinue all plans to establish an industrial […]
The United Nations’ Human Rights body is investigating allegations that supporters of Canada’s Ascendant Copper framed local critic Carlos Zorrilla. Zorrilla, a member of Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag (DECOIN), a local environmental NGO, […]
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