BNDES 5: The Bank for for continental dam construction
Working through IIRSA, the Bank is funding dam construction throughout South America.
BNDES 4: The Bank and Belo Monte
Without the bank, BNDES would not have been built. But this massive act of environmental hubris is fraught with problems.
BNDES 3: The Bank for the Four Sisters
The rise of the Brazil's giant construction companies is intimately linked to power, corruption and bank loans
BNDES 2: The Bank for Business Credit
Bolsa Familia has helped Brazil's poor. Dubbed 'Bolsa Empresário', BNDES has helped big business and the rich.
BNDES 1: The Bank, Corruption and the Amazon Dams
Brazil's BNDES, the world's largest development bank, appears to be out of control and damaging Brazil's people and biodiversity
Grand Nicaragua Canal: 6- Another nail in the coffin of the...
Nicaragua’s Grand Canal project continues to be delayed amid news that Wang has lost 85 percent of his fortune. The canal seems ever more to be a mirage. Russell White investigates.
Mexico: Slim pickings
How can a country where half the population lives below the poverty line, produce Carlos Slim often regarded as the world's richest man?
Argentina – Nisman murder still a mystery
A fascinating article by a US investigative journalist argues convincingly that Nisman was not murdered because he had irrefutable proof that Iran and the Argentina government were covering up those behind the AMIA bombing.
Venezuela: the struggle to preserve a dream
Former LAB editor Javier Farje visited Caracas recently and explored communities and walked the streets of the Venezuelan capital to find a people who are not prepared to give up just yet.
Venezuela: Maduro and the ‘economic war’
Is the Maduro government deploying canny pragmatism, or has it retreated from Chavez' commitment to redistribution?