Climate Conversations – Why the UNFCCC needs more countries like Mexico
For Mexico, the fight against climate change is a fight for sustainability.
GUATEMALA: Caught in the crossfire
GUATEMALA: Caught in the crossfire. As the drug related violence in Mexico spills over the border into Guatemala Michael Deibert discusses the implications for residents and the weak rule of law.
UNASUR Bloc Lashes Out at EU Over Honduras
Unasur has a new leader and says "no" to Honduras.
Narcotrafficking in Mexico: Neoliberalism and a Militarized State
In an interview with La Jornada Michoacán, Daniela Morales talks to British academic, Peter Watt, who argues that neoliberal policies and the war on Mexican drug cartels are part of the same project; to maintain a weak democracy and a militarized state
House Committee on Foreign Affairs Votes to Defund the Organization of...
Republicans in the US congress have had enough of the OAS and their left-wing members and want to stop paying for it.
Oil-rich Venezuela gripped by economic crisis
Juan Forero, from the Washington Post, argues that the country is paralysed by the crisis.
Undermining Development? EU Trade Policy on Natural Resources
A recent report by Traidcraft Exchange, Oxfam Germany and partner organisations, questions the extent to which countries like Peru benefit from such agreements.
Honduras: U.S. ‘Democracy Promotion’ in Honduras
In June 2009 a coup overthrew Honduras' elected government. One year later US aid flows into the country in the name of democracy promotion which supports the coup backers. Dawn Paley discusses the use of aid to further US interests in the country.
Brazil grabs land in Africa
Mozambique has offered Brazil five million hectares of land on which to grow soya, maize and cotton.
Colombia: Multinational Banana Corporation Displaces Afro-Colombian Peace Communities
Since early December, hundreds of private contractors of multinational banana corporation Banacol have illegally invaded and occupied Afro-Colombian peace communities in the Curvaradó river basin in order to clear the land for banana cultivation.