Haiti: “We Are Tired of Living under Tents”
Homeless people are pressing for urgent action to provide them with housing.
Ecuador: Criminalization of the Social Protest in Times of the ‘Citizen...
Cecilia Chérrez explores the contradictions of a government that claims to rule for the people but represses popular movements.
Brazil: Belo Monte at all cost
Why does the Brazilian government insist on pushing ahead with the Belo Monte hydroelectric power station, despite all the problems? In a special article for LAB, Jan Rocha looks behind the headlines.
BOLIVIA: THE TIPNIS CONFLICT – KEY ISSUES UNDERPINNING THE CONFLICT –...
In this third and last part, Dario Kenner briefly touches on some of the pertinent issues linked to this very complex conflict.
Bolivia: indigenous groups mobilise against highway
Government plans highway through indigenous land. From Bolivia Oscar Salgado calls on the LAB community to sign the indigenous petition against the road.
HONDURAS FEMICIDES
A group of human rights organisations in Honduras says the killings of women has increased in recent years.
Colombia: human rights, a casualty of the war
Latin America Bureau interviews Eduardo Carreño, a prominent Colombian lawyer, on human rights, political violence and Venezuela.
Peruvian group illegally occupies land of isolated Indians in Brazil
In his Blog da Amazonia, the Brazilian journalist, Altino Machado, describes how paramilitaries from Peru have invaded land belonging to isolated Indians in Brazil.
Venezuela: protest letter in the Guardian
Leading activists and thinkers criticise the Guardian newspaper for failing to report on a 10,000-person march in Caracas to demand justice for the hundreds of peasant activists assassinated by wealthy landowners.