“LULA AND DILMA HAVE PILLAGED THE AMAZON,” SAYS BISHOP
Bishop Erwin Kräutler, bishop of Xingu since 1980, decries the marginalisation of the indians and other Amazon communities, saying that Brazil is a 'civilian dictatorship'.
PERU: WAYS OF MAKING MINING MORE SUSTAINABLE
The Red Muqui, which monitors extractive industries in Peru, says there are exciting alternatives to the current dirty and socially unjust mining model.
BRAZIL: TIME FOR SOLAR ENERGY
Decentralised electricity generation could reduce costs and avoid damaging the environment.
MEXICAN WIND FARMS GENERATE CONFLICT
A 'green energy' project benefits companies and excludes local people.
Honduras: reforming public security and mining regulations
As if Honduras did not have enough problems, it has now been revealed that foreign interests are dictating important national policies.
Brazil: anger over Amazon dams
Social movements are protesting over plans to push ahead with hydroelectric dams along the Tapajós river. Bruna Rocha reports for LAB.
PERU: Indigenous protests lead to talks
Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon force oil companies to talk
Ecuador: Indigenous Group Rejects Ivanhoe’s Rainforest Oil Project
The President of the Kichwa people of Rukullakta in Ecuador protests against Canadian oil company Ivanhoe Energy's plans for the Pungarayacu oil field.
CHILE: COMMUNITIES DEFY BARRICK GOLD
Communities in the Huasco Valley defy company attempts to silence them and detail the environmental damage being wrought by the Pascua Lama gold mine.
How sustainable is hydropower in the Amazon?
A new study of the ecological impact of the 150 dams planned across all six major river basins connecting the Andes to the Amazon, a huge area covering parts of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, raises serious concerns.