Tapajos under attack 15: Brazil on verge of legitimizing Amazon land...
Brazil’s president has until 22 June to approve or veto two bills (PLC 4 and PLC 5) turning over more than 600,000 hectares...
Brazil’s Bolsa Familia
Discover the experiences across ten years of two different families in the North East of Brazil who received Bolsa Família. They took opposite paths...
Nicaragua: pros and cons of the interoceanic canal
The costs and benefits of the Punta Gorda - Brito route to supplement and replace the Panama Canal.
Central America’s China Syndrome
The Isthmus is almost the last place on Earth where The People's Republic of China and Taiwan still compete for recognition.
Haiti: Tourism on the Comeback Trail?
The government launches a new initiative to boost tourism, this time making use of Haiti's rich history. Russell White takes a look.
Brazil: Fachin’s list: the Odebrecht earthquake
Sâo Paulo. April 19. The sheer scale and volume of the gigantic bribery operation that has been bankrolling the entire infrastructure of Brazilian politics...
Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy
Brazil’s government this week announced a major shift away from its policy of building mega-dams in the Brazilian Amazon – a strategy born...
The Amazon: hunger – the invisible side of Covid-19
This article originally appeared in Portuguese in the Portuguese newspaper O Público, on 2 April, here.
The version published by Amazon Latitude, here, was translated...
Tapajos under attack 9: Amazon Soy Moratorium: defeating deforestation or greenwash...
In the early 2000s, public outrage over Amazon clear cutting for soy production caused transnational grain companies including Cargill, Bunge and Brazil’s Amaggi,...
Nicaragua: Coffee and Covid-19
‘The pandemic will bring tremendous personal health risk to smallholder coffee farmers around the globe, but also a series of financial risks, including market...