Source: The Guardian Unlimited Latin America NGO director Omaira Bolaños explains the barriers to getting women’s voices heard in climate change talks How is deforestation and climate change affecting the lives of indigenous women? Women […]
Source: CISPES On July 31, El Salvador’s National Legislative Assembly passed a package of tax reforms aimed at shifting the fiscal burden from the nation’s poor majority to the wealthy elite and easing the country’s […]
Source: teleSUR English The World Bank was criticized by its internal auditor on Monday for not properly carrying out adequate environmental and social safeguards before lending money to Honduras’ largest bank. This is the second […]
Source: Alternet It is impossible to understand the root causes of the current wave of Central Americans arriving to the United States, and therefore the appropriate U.S. response, without acknowledging the historical relationship between the […]
Source: La Jornada Practically every month meetings of popular organizations take place in the most remote corners of Mexico. At these meetings, they try to find ways to face the dispossession of their land, territories […]
Source: The Americas Blog After penning an op-ed which blames the U.S. backed cold war and drug war for leading to the recent surge in migration from Central America, the Guatemalan President has hired a […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas Fishing is a risky activity per se. Hurricanes, storms, and rough waters are a constant hazard for thousands of men and women whose livelihoods depend on the water. Yet […]
Source: Truthout The map of Latin America is in full flux. The reconfiguration of territories primarily affects the 670 indigenous communities that stretch from the Rio Grande to Patagonia, according to statistics from the Economic […]
Evidence convinced judge of threat posed to honey production in Yucatán – but firm will almost certainly appeal against ruling Source: The Guardian A small group of beekeepers in Mexico has inflicted a blow on biotech giant Monsanto, […]
Source: NACLA A week ago was when I first saw the picture that appeared in the The Telegraph of children in the Gaza Strip trying to break the Guinness world record for kite-flying. The kites […]
Copyright 2003-2018 Upside Down World