Brazil: racism of Temer government threatens quilombos
Brazil's new government has dissolved INCRA, threatening land rights of the country's quilombos
Venezuela: the politicians need to listen
The views of ordinary people about Venezuela's economic and political crisis
Paraguay: Curuguaty paved the way for the multinationals
A leading rural workers' rights activist speaks out about the steady concentration of land and political power and the ethnocide of rural peoples.
Brazil: legislating environmental disaster
Planned new legislation will encourage deforestation − at a time when fires caused by the serious drought are destroying vast areas of forest.
Brazil’s environment is under stress
With forest fires in the Amazon and a terrible dam burst in Minas Gerais, Brazil is paying the cost of its failure to regulate properly human activities
Brazil — new government report warns of serious climate change
Report foresees failed hydropower and reduced harvests by 2040
Brazil poised to approve Terminator seeds
With Brazil in political disarray, the agribusiness lobby is seeking gain approval from Congress for the Terminator seeds, that is, seeds genetically modified to be sterile. This would entail a huge risk for the country's precious biodiversity.
Colombia: battle over fumigation is not over
President Santos has been praised internationally for banning the use of glyphosate, now declared a 'probable carcinogenic', but the spraying of coca is still continuing. It's too soon to celebrate.
Brazil — rural conflict growing
Though the media in Brazil pays little attention to it, rural violence against indigenous and landless workers is on the increase.
Peru: four years of Humala
Little has emerged of the 'great transformation' promised by Ollanta Humala when he was elected in June 2011.