ARTISANAL MINING IN PERU: BLESSING OR CURSE?
Small-scale mining is often portrayed as the worst exploiter, both of workers and the environment. The truth is more complex.
Mining in Latin America: deepening contradictions
Governments of right and left are welcoming large scale mining, but the social and environmental costs are mounting and communities are less inclined to suffer them
The Putumayo Atrocities
The story of the near-extermination of indigenous communities in the early 1900s at the hands of the Peruvian Amazon Company.
BOGOTA AND LIMA: GREENING OUR CITIES
Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá stresses in this video interview the importance of public transport and green space for cities such as Bogotá and Lima.
The Two Perus
The gulf between the Coastal and Highland economies, the dispossession caused by extractive industry and failure to involve local people mean that inequality in Peru remains stubbornly high, says Christian Aid partner, CEDAP.
The Achuar indigenous people wins against oil company
The Achuar peoples of Peru’s Amazon region have forced the withdrawal of a Canadian oil-mining company from their traditional territory after an eight-year battle
PERU – THE TYRANNY OF STATISTICS
The Peruvian economy has been growing at record rates over the last few years but behind the label of 'middle-income country' lies a harsh reality of hardship and inequality.
PERU: OLLANTA HUMALA’S FIRST TURBULENT YEAR
Ollanta Humala promised to tackle the country's deep-seated social inequalities when he took over a year ago. But, says LAB's Javier Farje, his supporters are feeling bitterly disappointed.
Inter-American Development Bank Report on Microfinance in Latin America and the...
A new report on microfinance in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that the sector is growing strongly.
PERU: WAYS OF MAKING MINING MORE SUSTAINABLE
The Red Muqui, which monitors extractive industries in Peru, says there are exciting alternatives to the current dirty and socially unjust mining model.