Brazil: OAS calls for halt to Belo Monte
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organisation of American States (OAS) says that work should end on the Belo Monte hydroelectric power station on the Xingu river, pending "full, free and informed" consultation with the affected comm
VENEZUELA: The Beginning of the End for Chávez?
As opinion poll after opinion poll point to falling support for Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, this article examines the reasons behind the decline.
Colombian community prepares to sell forest carbon credits
The author writes about an initiative that puts an indigenous community in Colombia at the forefront of the fight against climate change.
Peruvian elections or how to change history for ever
The Peruvian elections have produced an unexpected result. Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori will face each other in the run-off. Anything could happen in an unusual electoral process.
Monsanto pushes GM maize
The biotech giant, Monsanto, is taking advantage of the havoc caused by bad weather in Mexico to push its GM maize (corn).
Belo Monte: The dialogue that never happened
Bishop Erwin Kräutler, the president of CIMI (Indigenous Missionary Council) in Brazil, has published an "open letter" in which he attacks the government's decision to push ahead with the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Amazon basin.
Colombia: Las Pavas: Farmers demand right of return to lands
On 4 April 2011, more than 70 adults returned to the Las Pavas ranch (Department of Bolívar), from which they were displaced in July 2009, following various returns and subsequent forced displacements.
The path for Venezuela can not be neoliberalism or Stalinism
Eduardo Lander, a distinguisled Venezuelan academic, argues that the Venezuelan revolution must have its own identity.
50 years of the Bay of Pigs: Cubans and the CIA...
Fifty years ago, an invasion of Cuba, sponsored by the CIA, failed and moved the island towards a socialist system.
Lula’s Brazil
This essay, written by the influential British Marxist historian Perry Anderson and published by the London Review of Books, first summarises Lula's achievements in his two terms of government and then looks at the radically different