Source: The Guardian Unlimited José de Echave, from Lima-based NGO CooperAccion, talks about the proposed Tia Maria copper mine. US company Newmont’s proposed Conga gold mine, perhaps, or the 40-odd year old oil concession that […]
Source: Al Jazeera Last week the U.S. government took the deeply ironic step of removing Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. It is the U.S. that has been a state sponsor of […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited New law permitting hydrocarbons operations in “protected areas” sparks major concerns for people and the environment The Madidi National Park in north-west Bolivia is one of the most biodiverse places on […]
Source: Al Jazeera Art is being used as a tool to overcome trauma and displacement and to forge a new Latin American identity. There was once a Mexican woman whose spine was crushed by a […]
Mexico’s latest elections are threatened by drug cartel violence, social protests, and the mass resignation of election officials. The left, which in the past has succeeded in rallying a third or more of the nation’s voters for a […]
Source: Truthout The extreme south of the state of Bahia in northeastern Brazil is a region of intense conflict over indigenous lands. A judge asked Rosivaldo Ferreira da Silva, a leader from the indigenous Babau […]
Source: Intercontinental Cry From May 27-29, 2014, Indigenous leaders from across Argentina’s 17 provinces met in Buenos Aires and presented dramatic testimonies of human rights violations and dispossession from their ancestral lands. In all corners […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas Efforts to secure water rights and resist extractivism united campesino and indigenous organizers. Since his presidential inauguration in 2007, Rafael Correa has faced deepening criticism from indigenous and environmental […]
The forthcoming film, A Bold Peace: Costa Rica’s Path of Demilitarization, should be given every possible means of support and promotion. After all, it documents the blatant violation of laws of physics, human nature, and […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas Four sustained weeks of civil protest sparked by outrage at a corruption ring in the Customs office have brought the Guatemalan government to its knees. Vice President Roxana Baldetti […]
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