‘FESTIVAL OF KILLING’ IN SAO PAULO
There has been alarming increase in unexplained killings in São Paulo in recent months. In a special article for LAB, Jan Rocha looks at what is going on.
WILL LATIN AMERICA BE THE NEW MIDDLE EAST?
Latin America is on the way to becoming the world's main provider of energy resources and minerals. But this apparent boom, argues Raúl Zibechi, is a disaster, increasing the region's dependence on exports of natural resources.
Mining in Latin America: deepening contradictions
Governments of right and left are welcoming large scale mining, but the social and environmental costs are mounting and communities are less inclined to suffer them
“Order our extinction and bury us here”
The dramatic statement of a neglected Brazilian Indigenous community.
Election Day in Caracas
Rachael Boothroyd gives a lively account of election day in the capital.
Part 6: Fordlândia
In the sixth and final episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford takes time off to visit Fordlândia, Henry Ford's failed attempt to create rubber plantations in the Brazilian Amazon.
Part 5: Altamira, Belo Monte, Anapu – colonos and loggers
In the fifth episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford continues eastwards along the Transamazônica highway to the town of Altamira, which, due to the Belo Monte hydroelectric power station, is expanding at a momentous rate.
Part 4: The Sister Dorothy Sustainable Development Project
In the fourth episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford visits the Sister Dorothy Sustainable Development Project (PDS), named after the American religious sister murdered in 2005 for her opposition to abuses by landowners and loggers.
Sao Paulo is sick
Pollution from rapidly increasing traffic is choking São Paulo. But when wheezing and coughing residents want health care, they find that the health service is sick. One problem is the distorting impact of the private health market.