Brazil: anger over Amazon dams
Social movements are protesting over plans to push ahead with hydroelectric dams along the Tapajós river. Bruna Rocha reports for LAB.
Brazil’s forests wait for Dilma
President Dilma has until 25 May to decide whether or not to veto the landowners' version of the Forest Code. Meanwhile, pressure from the environmentalist lobby is gaining momentum.
Honduras: funeral of man assassinated by police
COPINH, the indigenous organisation, issues statement protesting about police brutality (in Spanish).
Brazil’s slave labour law still not approved
Congressional manoeuvres to delay Constitutional amendment expose the extent of slave labour in ‘modern’ Brazil.
Two military leaders of Eldorado dos Carajás massacre jailed
Sixteen years after the event, the two commanders of the Eldorado dos Carajas massacre, in which 19 people were killed, are finally jailed.
Honduras: direct intervention
On 11 May 2012 US and Honduran soldiers shot a group of Miskito Indians from a helicopter, claiming they were involved in drug-trafficking. Berta Cáceres from COPINH says that the indigenous community is under seige.
Honduras: denunciation of “foreign military occupation”
Human rights body expresses outrage at killing of six civilians by US soldiers
US says that within weeks its Vulcan Task Force will operate...
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff commander General Martin Dempsey visited Colombia on March 29 to announce that within weeks U.S. military personnel will operate from a military base there with the newly formed Vulcan Task Force.
PERU: Indigenous protests lead to talks
Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon force oil companies to talk
Brazil’s forests wait for Dilma
President Dilma has until 25 May to decide whether or not to veto the landowners' version of the Forest Code. Meanwhile, pressure from the environmentalist lobby is gaining momentum.