Paraguay
The extraordinarily rapid removal of President Fernando Lugo from office on 22 June took everyone by surprise.
Rio+20 and climate change (continued, Part 2)
Our slender hopes of the Rio+20 conference were duly disappointed and the NGOs’ fears proved to be all too well founded.
Rio+20 and climate change
Many of us would still like to hope that Rio+20, the big UN climate conference that is beginning in Rio de Janeiro, can still achieve something of importance.
Communities in the Brazilian Amazon
This week, thanks to LAB collaborator Bruna Rocha, we are turning our attention to the struggles of a host of small communities along the basin of the river Tapajós in the Brazilian Amazon.
Latin America’s land grab
With the world facing prolonged financial turmoil and food shortages because of the deepening climate crisis, land has become a ‘commodity’. Investors are confident that it will increase in value and give them a good return on their capital.
Land occupations
perfectly illustrate the themes we explored in our last newsletter: who controls the natural resources and how this is being contested;
Land in Latin America
Land is an issue that underlies almost every aspect of life in Latin America.