Brazil: Campaign of terror against Amazon community
Loggers, keen to expel rubber-tappers from timber-rich land in the state of Amazonas in the Brazilian Amazon, are terrorising families, with the cumplicity of the local police force. A report from Pública, one of LAB's partners in Brazil.
Brazil: the curse of Rondônia?
The first of many huge hydropower projects being built in Brazil's Amazon is having teething problems. It is the latest in a series of difficulties faced across the years by outside investors, says Mario Osava.
Brazil: Memory and Justice
The publication of a two-volume, multi-disciplinary study of the country's military dictatorship (1964-1985) will make an important contribution to the 'construction of memory' of the years of repression.
Save the rainforest of Alto Purús in Peru
A call for action to help save the rainforest in Peru.
Amazon: Impunity for loggers
Amazon: Impunity for loggers. Last year two men from the state of Pará reported to the Brazilian authorities the systematic, large-scale plundering of hard timber within protected forest areas in the Amazon basin.
Brazil’s Truth Commission
Brazil has finally decided to follow the example of other Latin American countries and set up a Truth Commission. But, reports Jan Rocha from Sao Paulo, the process is not proving easy.
Brazil: a prize the government won’t be bragging about
For the first time a Brazilian company -- the mining giant Vale -- has been elected 'the worst company in the world'.
En defensa del agua, la vida y sus derechos: Pueblos indígenas...
In Spanish. The indigenous communities in the Loreto region, in Peru's northeast Amazona are mobilising against the activities of mining companies that are destroying the environment.
World Social Forum — Day of Action
The Assembly of Social Movements, held at the WSF in Porto Alegre in Brazil, has called on social movements throughout the world to take collective action on 5 June 2012.
Letter from Marabá
In the second instalment of his blog, Francis McDonagh talks about his return to Brazil's 'faroeste' in the state of Pará.