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.
AMAZON BASIN: ENERGY WITHOUT DESTRUCTION
Wind and solar energy are much better ways of generating energy in the Amazon basin than the present plan for 150 large hydroelectric power stations, says Pedro Bara Neto, from WWF, in an interview with LAB.
Latin America: Carlos Mesa looks at political transition
In a talk at the London School of Economics (available as a podcast), former Bolivian President Carlos Mesa looks at political transitions in Latin America.
BABETTE’S FEAST FOR THE DISPOSSESSED: WHY THE FUTURE OF CHAVISMO MATTERS
Chavismo put the barrios on the map and gave their inhabitants a sense of pride.
Brazil: the curse of Rondônia?
The first of many huge hydropower projects being built in Brazil's Amazon is having teething problems. It is the latest in a series of difficulties faced across the years by outside investors, says Mario Osava.
Brazil: Protesting workers stop work on Amazon dam
On 17 March construction workers at the Jirau dam in the Amazon state of Rondonia set fire to buses and damaged housing. The riot, believed to have been caused by poor working conditions, has brought construction work to a halt.
South America’s ‘Brown Left’
Many governments in South America see themselves as progressive, yet all are involved in conflicts over the environment.
Brazil: OAS calls for halt to Belo Monte
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organisation of American States (OAS) says that work should end on the Belo Monte hydroelectric power station on the Xingu river, pending "full, free and informed" consultation with the affected comm
Cochabamba Still Thirsty
The author analyses the serious shortage of drinnking water in one of Bolivia's biggest cities.
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.