Source: Al Jazeera America Spreading bad policing models to Latin America can only exacerbate inequality and state violence A young activist named Diego Ibáñez, a native of Bolivia, is accused of spraying New York City Police Commissioner Bill […]
Source: Truthout As one of the fastest growing global commodities, palm oil has recently earned a reputation as a major contributor to tropical deforestation and, therefore, to climate change as well. About 50 million metric […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited The body of an indigenous leader who was opposed to a major mining project in Ecuador has been found bound and buried, days before he planned to take his campaign to […]
Source: The New Internationalist Women in Bolivia – and across the world – face multiple forms of systemic violence; to those we can now add climate-change impacts. One women-led community in peri-urban Bolivia is working […]
Source: The Center for Economic and Policy Research and Open Democracy President Evo Morales came to power in Bolivia in 2006 amid widespread discontent. The country had been experiencing a long-term economic growth failure, with […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas Susana Villarán’s electoral defeat in Lima is instructive for left-wing leadership in Latin American cities where the left remains weak. On October 5, 2014, a resounding 50.6% of voters […]
Source: Amnesty International Threats and killings coupled with the weak implementation of flawed legislation are scuppering the Colombian government’s promise to return millions of hectares of land illegally snatched from peasant farmers, Indigenous People and […]
Source: School of the Americas Watch Columbus, Georgia – 2,500 human rights activists braved the rainstorms on Sunday, November 23 and converged at Fort Benning to call for an end to militarized state violence in […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited Renewables star Brazil is now backtracking towards fossil fuels. Why, when wind could provide vital jobs? Brazil has made huge strides in divesting from fossil fuels. In 2009 the country produced […]
Source: Latin America Press Several years have passed since many Latin American countries, especially South American countries, gradually began voting for center-left presidents at the ballot boxes. More than a decade later, we can adjust […]
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