Brazil: the ‘neoliberalisation’ of Embrapa
Horacio Martins de Carvalho, a leading rural analyst, laments the way Embrapa, the country's main agricultural research institute, has been turned into a tool of neoliberalism, even signing technical agreements with Monsanto. In Portuguese.
Wikileaks: Trinidad Jimenez’s (Spanish Foreign Minister) comments on Latin America
Spanish Foreign Minister in Trinidad comments on Spanish and US involvement in Latin America.
Mexico: COP 16 Ends: Cancun Climate Change Talks Disappoint Global Expectations
As the climate talks in Cancun come to an end they have laid bare the fact that Northern countries are unwilling to reduce their emissions as Southern countries are left vulnerable.
Honduras: Campesinos Expelled Like ‘Vermin’
More human rights abuses as campesinos are evicted in the Bajo Aguan with nowhere to go.
Colombia: human rights organisation wins award
Human rights activist wins award for her organisation's struggle to regain land violently seized by paramilitary groups. Article, in Spanish, from La Semana.
The Poor Always Pay: The Electoral Crisis in Haiti
Beverly Bell looks at the real winners and losers from the crisis which has taken over since the disputed elections in Haiti on 28th November. Regardless of who is drawn the winner in the second round, it is the poor, who number the greatest, who will
Interview: Dr. William I. Robinson on Power, Domination and Conflicts in...
In an interview with between Dawn Paley and Dr William I. Robinson on power and conflict in Mexico, and beyond, Robinson encourages us to look of the current structural crisis, not with traditional notions of imperialism but in terms of the rise of 21s
Cuban Medics: a Big Force on Haiti Cholera Frontline
As Haiti's population continues to battle the cholera epidemic, Cuban medics rally to help with trained personnel. Having established a presence in the country 12 years ago during Hurricane George they know the landsape they are operating in
Bolivia: Cancun text is “hollow” and “false”
The Bolivian government has decried the agreement reached in Cancun. "An accord where only the powerful win is not a negotiation but an imposition", it says in a statement.
Haiti: The business of disaster
Haiti: the business of disaster. US corporations are profiting handsomely from the large quantities of food aid, mostly rice, which is being brought into the country in the wake of the earthquake. But this rice is sounding the death kn