Mexico skirts sanctions – for now
Mexico has won some time, a short breathing space of one month from the threat issued by President Donald Trump of imposing a 25 per cent tariff on products exported to the US.
The Other Militaries
The CAMeNA archive in Mexico City contains fascinating testimony from members of the region's armed forces who remained loyal to constitutions and democracies and stood up (often at the cost of their rank, their liberty and sometimes their lives) against golpistas, the oligarchies and US-inspired National Security doctrines.
The Amazon on Europe’s plate
The landmark EU Deforestation Regulation was designed to prevent imports and exports of a comprehensive list of products linked to deforestation and forest degradation....
Brazil: organic cotton farmers lead the way
Organic cotton production lifts resettled and Quilombola communities out of poverty in Brazil, but there are challenges to keeping the trade sustainable in the long term.
What Donald Trump’s possible re-election could mean for the Amazon and...
As the world watches the United States gear up for another presidential election, the potential re-election of Donald Trump raises questions not only about the future of American democracy but also about the fate of global environmental policies.
Ka’apor and Quilombola Communities in Brazil
Documentary film: We Fight For This Land: Ka’apor and Quilombola Communities in Brazil (62”, 2024)Directors: Cahal McLaughlin and Siobhán Wills
Quilombo and Indigenous Ka’apor communities...
Painful truths from Rio de Janeiro and London
The content of the book is painful but also full of hope. It aims to better understand the ‘painful truths’ of gendered violence in cities, bringing to light the stories of many women on the receiving end as victims and survivors and the ways in which women challenge violence through resistance and creative practices as agents.
The Amazon: journey to the centre of the fire
Photojournalist Edmar Barros travelled through one of the regions hardest hit by the fires in the Amazon, Amacro, on the border with Acre and Rondônia, to show the havoc wreaked by flames and drought.
The oligarchy in mining is bad for all of us –...
In the second of two articles, mining engineer Laurence Morris describes how the oligarchy of the 'Big Five' mining companies operates and the negative consequences of their monopoly of power, influence and resources.
El Salvador: the Song of the Poor
Review of exceptional collection of diary pieces and writing by catholic priest and missionary Tommy Greenan, who lived and worked in Chalatenango, El Salvador, following the teachings of Oscar Romero