Land grab in Latin America
Meeting in Buenos Aires, social movements criticise a recent report on land-grabbing by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
El Chaco no es mudo. La prensa lo ha enmudecido
People of the Chaco, affected by serious flooding, accuse the press of ignoring their plight. In Spanish
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.
TIPNIS: SECOND ANTI-ROAD MARCH CONTINUES
Indigenous groups in Bolivia are marching once again in protest over the planned road, even though it is proving hard to maintain the earlier momentum.
CHILE: COMMUNITIES DEFY BARRICK GOLD
Communities in the Huasco Valley defy company attempts to silence them and detail the environmental damage being wrought by the Pascua Lama gold mine.
High time to demand peace on drugs
Talli Nauman, from Americas Program, argues that it is time for the USA to completely change its policies on drugs in Latin America.
¿El cartel de EE UU?
El País journalist Andrés Oppenheimer argues that the National Rifle Association of the USA is partly responsible for the drug violence in Mexico. In Spanish.
Statement by Engelberto Domínguez, President of the Asociacion Campesina Nacional (ACAN)...
In Spanish and English.
HONDURAS: News from a land occupation in Bajo Aguán
Consuelo Castillo, one of the organisers of a land occupation in Lempira, Bajo Aguán, says agribusiness has illegally pushed families off the land to turn it over to cultivation of palm oil for biofuel.
HONDURAS: Blood on those carbon credits
Long-standing land disputes in the Honduran countryside boil over as palm oil plantations (grown for ‘green energy’) displace more peasant families.