SAO PAULO: A LITTLE DELICACY, PLEASE
A plea for restraint and humanity to save São Paulo from the developers.
BRAZIL: A FOREST CODE FOR AGRIBUSINESS?
The complexity and contradictions of Brazil’s new Forest Code will make it hard to enforce and easy to evade, says the Instituto Socioambiental.
PARAGUAY: THE TRUE STORY OF THE CURUGUATY MASSACRE
The Brazilian NGO, Publica, has published a special report, which for the first time gives the peasants' version of what happened in the massacre that led to the impeachment of President Fernando Lugo earlier this year.
Latin America’s climate conundrum
The Americas now face the challenge of coping with the inevitable, potentially devastating,impacts of climate change.
The Platform launches reports on climate change policies in 10 Latin...
A comprehensive report on actions taken by Latin American countries to fight climate change.
Climate Smart Agriculture in Latin America: A Sustainable Development Alternative
A renowned Costa Rican environmentalist says that small-scale farming can help resolve the problem of climate change in Central America.
“Order our extinction and bury us here”
The dramatic statement of a neglected Brazilian Indigenous community.
Election Day in Caracas
Rachael Boothroyd gives a lively account of election day in the capital.
The Putumayo Atrocities
The story of the near-extermination of indigenous communities in the early 1900s at the hands of the Peruvian Amazon Company.
