Chevron, Ecuador and the extractor’s curse – 2
2. The Ecuadorian government: friend or foe?
On July 10 2018, two courts, over 2,800 miles apart, came to diametrically opposite conclusions about one of...
Amazon Besieged – by dams, soya, agribusiness and land-grabbing
The Tapajós River, a major tributary of the Amazon, is renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity and the vitality of its indigenous and riverine communities....
British supermarkets, GMO soya and birth defects
The UK's six largest supermarkets have quietly decided to allow more GM soya into the food chain, despite horrific evidence of the impact of the GM soya boom in Argentina.
Brazil: mines mean murder (again)
Local leaders in Barcarena, Pará are in fear for their lives, following the murder on Monday 12 March of one of their leaders, 47...
Lithium: draining the desert
Peine, Chile and Susques, Argentina – Within minutes of driving out of
tourist hotspot San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile you are deep in...
Brazil: the flesh is weak but the meat is rotten
São Paulo, March 22nd. With their usual fine sense of irony, the Federal Police named their latest operation, launched on Friday 17th, “Carne Fraca”...
FIRST OPEN LETTER ON THE SELF-PROCLAMATION OF DAJE KAPAP EYPI INDIGENOUS...
This is the first open letter by the Munduruku Indians, about the recent step of marking out the limits of their land in an attempt to force the authorities to give them the legal rights to land they have long occupied
Uruguay – agribusiness is wiping out family farming
Large-scale commercial farming, particularly of soya, is imposing GMOs and destroying rural livelihoods.
New era in China-Latin America relations
China's growing willingness to engage with Latin America could transform the region, argues Raul Zibechi.
After the Flood: Two years on from the Fundão tailings dam...
LAB's Tom Gatehouse talks to Rodrigo Péret from the Churches and Mining Network and Thiago Alves da Silva from the Movement of People Affected...