The Amazon: loggers attack environment officials
This article was first published by Mongabay on 27 May. You can read the original here.In April an official from IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental agency...
Colombia: land inequality and historic memory
Main image: Aerial photo of agricultural land near Ipiales, Colombia. Photo by Luis Eduardo Bernal M. 2009.
In February 2019, Darío Acevedo was appointed president...
BRAZIL: JBS using beef from illegal cattle ranches
Brazil: cattle illegally grazed in the Amazon found in supply chain of leading meat-packer JBS
Government data shows steep rise in illegal commercial cattle ranching...
Colombia: continuing displacement threatens the Peace
On October 29, 2019, the indigenous governor of the Tacueyó Reserve, Cristina Bautista, was attacked and killed in the Cauca region of Colombia by...
Colombia faces a second deadly threat
Crop eradication in Colombia is negating the crop substitution programme, causing violence and undermining the peace process, warns Christian Aid.
Colombia: the flowers of inequality
Colombian-grown flowers decorate weddings and parties around the world. But the industry, whose sales are hard hit by Covid-19, conceals grim levels of inequality.
Nicaragua’s youth movement for agro-ecology
Young people and rural trade unions in Nicaragua are campaigning for a better, more sustainable agriculture industry.
Bolsonaro — the new Jim Jones
President Bolsonaro is the new 'Jim Jones', says Jan Rocha, comparing the Brazilian president to the cult leader who led his followers in a mass suicide in Guayana in 1978.
“Creaction Amazónica”
"CreAction Amazónica" - a virtual caravan against the climate crisis. Appeal to join, send in your own video. Results to be broadcast on 24 September on YouTube and Facebook.
Colombia: does peace still have a chance?
This article was written by Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín, Professor at the Nacional University in Bogotá Colombia, and a partner on the Drugs & (dis)order...