Miss Kayapó: subverting indigenous culture?
Film-makers from the Kayapó indigneous community in the Brazilian Amazon are beginning to film many aspects of their culture, including the participation of Kayapó girls in beauty contests.
Amazon: Another way is possible
At a time of serious environmental setbacks in Brazil, a remarkable new documentary shows how hundreds of families are successfully working together to recuperate the forest.
Brazil: huge defeat for environmentalists
Congress approves new forest code that represents a serious reverse for environmental movement. The ball is now in Dilma's court.
The land problem in Paraguay: an unsolvable issue?
Paraguay has a left-wing government that does not seem to have the will to solve the land problem in the region of Alto Paraná.
Ecuador: the battle of the marches
An official march and a march of the social movements take each other on in Quito.
Brazil: MST attacks Dilma
In the wake of a series of actions undertaken by the landless movement (MST) across the country, João Pedro Stédile, one of the main leaders, has attacked President Dilma for allowing her government to be taken over by 'second-rate bureaucrats'.
Brazil: devastating attack on environmental policy
The leading biologist and former government official, João Paulo Capobianco, has strongly attacked the government's environmental policies, including its handling of the new forest code.
How sustainable is hydropower in the Amazon?
A new study of the ecological impact of the 150 dams planned across all six major river basins connecting the Andes to the Amazon, a huge area covering parts of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, raises serious concerns.
Help save the Awá Indians
Survival International is launching a campaign today (25 April 2012) to save the Awá – one of Brazil's two remaining tribes of nomadic hunter gatherers. They are the world's most threatened indigenous tribe.
Colombia after the Waterfall: Can Santos Turn the Tide?
Markus Schultze-Kraft analyzes the reforms of President Juan Manuel Santos and shows how his room for manoeuvre is limited by Uribe's legacy