Ecuador: Is protest deterring the oil companies from making bids?
Limited interest by oil companies in bidding for new contracts suggests international opposition is having some effect.
VENEZUELA: LUSBI PORTILLO, YUKPA PEOPLE, SIERRA DE PERIJA
Latin America is rightly famous for the vibrancy of its social movements. In a special series for LAB, Silvia Rothlisberger is profiling the leaders of some of these movements. Her first blog is on Lusbi Portillo, from the Yukpa people, in Venezuela.
Brazil: Indigenous struggle moves into a new gear
Indians have occupied the main construction sites for the huge Belo Monte dam and the government has responded by banning journalists.
Mexico: Airport Threatens Farmworkers Again
After halting the project a decade ago, the people of San Salvador Atenco are organising to combat new, and worse plans for an airport on their land.
Argentina: Chagas – a Silent Killer
One doctor's struggle to halt a deadly disease which affects millions.
ALMIR SURUÍ FROM BRAZIL HAS WON A UN “FOREST HERO” AWARD
Almir Narayamoga Surui, an indigenous leader from the Brazilian Amazon, has been given a prestigious UN Forest Heroes Award for his struggle to protect the forest.
BRAZIL: ANGER OVER ACQUITTAL
Activists in Marabá are angry that the man accused of murdering Amazon activists José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo has been acquitted.
DEADLY SINS IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON
The trampling of indigenous rights, military force used against protesters, impunity, megadams and environmental destruction. Is Brazil returning to the bad old days, asks Bianca Jagger?
BRAZIL: OPERATION TAPAJOS SUSPENDED
A federal court has ruled that the military and police forces should be withdrawn and environmental impact studies be suspended from areas around the São Luiz do Tapajós dam in the state of Pará.
ANTARCTIC PENINSULA’S THAW SPEEDS UP
Ice in parts of the Antarctic Peninsula is now melting during the summer faster than at any time in the last thousand years, and the most marked speed-up in the thaw has occurred since 1960, scientists say.