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: punishment at last
Sixteen years after the event, the two commanders of the Eldorado dos Carajas massacre, in which 19 people were killed, are finally jailed.
Honduras: denunciation of “foreign military occupation”
Human rights body expresses outrage at killing of six civilians by US soldiers
United States to send combat force to Colombia
US says that within weeks its Vulcan Task Force will operate from Colombia
Colombia: land restitution without security
Afro-Colombian communities return to their land but serious concerns about their future remain.
Brazil’s slave labour law still not approved
Congressional manoeuvres to delay Constitutional amendment expose the extent of slave labour in ‘modern’ Brazil.
Brazil: incinerating bodies in a sugar mill
A former member of Brazil's secret police makes shocking revelations about the collusion between repression and industry during the military dictatorship. It included burning the bodies of political activists in a sugar mill cauldron.
Brazilian rapper Mano Brown speaks out
The Brazilian hip-hop singer visits building occupied by sem-teto in the centre of São Paulo. Listen to him talking and rapping.
Ecuador: Indigenous Group Rejects Ivanhoe’s Rainforest Oil Project
The President of the Kichwa people of Rukullakta in Ecuador protests against Canadian oil company Ivanhoe Energy's plans for the Pungarayacu oil field.