Source: FSRN On Tuesday, a consortium of 9 companies won the rights to build the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on the Xingu River in the Amazon Basin. The 10-minute auction on Tuesday came after more […]
(IPS) – Through their ancestral knowledge and traditions, indigenous peoples will make a unique and invaluable contribution to the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which begins Monday, Apr. […]
Source: Democracy Now! Ten years ago this month, the Bolivian city of Cochabamba was at the center of an epic fight over one of the city’s most vital natural resources: its own water. The Water […]
(IPS) – As he drops his last purification tablet into a pail of swirling, murky water, Sergio, 26, stares out toward the desert. Recently deported from Arizona, where he has a young child and where […]
WOLA Committed to Human Rights, Democracy and Social Justice in HondurasWOLA considers the current crisis in Honduras to be rooted in the long-standing social, political and economic exclusion of the majority of the people. The […]
Source: Venezuela Analysis As Venezuela heads toward its fifteenth internationally monitored election in ten years[1], the international media assault against the democratically-elected Chavez government is intensifying. On April 3rd, New York Times correspondent Simon Romero […]
Approximately 850 people protested on Monday in Brazil’s capital Brasília against the Belo Monte mega-dam which is due to be constructed in the Brazilian Amazon. If built, the dam will be one of the largest […]
(IPS) – Feliciano Valencia, who holds the rank of minister for the Nasa indigenous people in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca, was arrested Saturday but released on bail. “It’s clear that there’s no intention […]
Source: CounterPunch Instead of the “new era of relations” Obama promised between the U.S. and Latin America, the past year has seen increasing U.S.-Latin American hostilities, largely centered around the June 28th, 2009 violent military […]
(IPS) – Five days before the assassination in downtown Washington of former Chilean Defence Minister Orlando Letelier, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger rescinded instructions to U.S. ambassadors in Latin America’s Southern Cone to warn the […]
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