Peru’s government is on the brink of approving the expansion of the highly controversial Camisea gas project into the land of uncontacted and isolated tribes – ignoring a recent UN recommendation to first carry out […]
Source: The Americas Blog CEPR Co-Director Mark examines how the Mexican economy has fared under 20 years of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), in a new column in The Guardian. The answer is […]
Source: La Jornada For the Mexican elites, similar winds are blowing to those which blew 20 years ago. Much like Enrique Peña Nieto today, at that time Carlos Salinas de Gortari felt invincible. His project […]
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation More than a quarter of Colombia’s 1.4 million Indians have been forced to flee their tribal lands in recent decades, the head of the government’s programme to protect indigenous peoples has […]
The Amazon activist, Chico Mendes, was murdered outside the door of his house on 22 December 1998. Jan Rocha, who met him, looks at his legacy. Source: Latin America Bureau The first and last time […]
Source: The Guardian The west’s drive to reduce its carbon footprint cheaply is fuelling a dirty war in Honduras, where US-backed security forces are implicated in the murder, disappearance and intimidation of peasant farmers involved […]
Source: NACLA In past weeks, the governments of Ecuador and Bolivia moved to shut down or expel major NGOs (non-government organizations) that work on issues of the environment, extractivism, and indigenous rights. In Ecuador, the Ministry […]
“Peace is still far away from our community,” says Jesús Emilio Tuberquia, with his calm, deep peasant farmer’s voice, staring intensely as he speaks. Jesús Emilio is one of the leaders of San José de […]
(IPS) – Twenty years after it took effect, NAFTA has failed the vast majority of Mexicans. Of course, hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs have vanished since automotive and tech companies moved their production across […]
Did a bloody confrontation over land rights lead to a coup against the country’s former President Fernando Lugo? Source: Al Jazeera In 2012, Paraguay’s then left-wing President Fernando Lugo was ousted from office after being […]
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