Latin America NGO director Omaira Bolaños explains the barriers to getting women’s voices heard in climate change talks Source: The Guardian How is deforestation and climate change affecting the lives of indigenous women? Women play […]
Source: The Americas Blog On July 10, just two days after Israel launched Operation Protective Edge (the largest attack on Gaza in several years) President Obama released a statement in which he “reaffirmed Israel’s right […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited Justin McGuirk’s fascinating study shows that Latin American cities have much to teach the world’s architects The Venice Architecture Biennale is usually a grand gathering of the biggest names in architecture, […]
Source: Al Jazeera Model cities’ unprecedented privatization scheme will undermine democracy and exacerbate inequality On May 26, the Honduran Supreme Court upheld a 2013 law that would in effect cede control of sovereign territory to […]
Source: Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña The proliferation of ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ mines across Honduras, prior to and following the passage of the new and totally questionable Mining Law, benefits the prosperity of a minuscule group […]
Source: The Nation Since 2006, more than 100,000 people have been disappeared or killed in Mexico, a country where more than 90 percent of crimes go unpunished. While running for president in 2012, Enrique Peña […]
Direct action by an Argentine Mapuche community in the second largest non-conventional gas reserve in the world Communiqué MAPUCHE ACTION PLAN IN LOMA CAMPANA (VACA MUERTA GAS & OIL RESERVE, NEUQUÉN, ARGENTINA) Loma Campana, July […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas In December 2013, about a year after Colorado and Washington voters made their states the world’s first jurisdictions to legalize recreational marijuana markets, Uruguay enacted the world’s first national […]
Source: BBC News Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a series of agreements on nuclear energy in Argentina. It came during his tour of Latin America aimed at increasing Russian influence in the region. The […]
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