Stinging ants: Amazon indigenous group girds itself to hold ancestral lands
The ancestral home of the Sateré-Mawé indigenous group is the Andirá-Marau Indigenous Reserve, an officially demarcated, heavily forested region covering 780,000 hectares...
Voices in New York – LAB Newsletter April 2019
26 April 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
The shocking suicide of former President Alan García, as police arrived to arrest, may have been planned in...
Brazil’s indigenous lands: Bolsonaro draws the battle lines
Parintins, site of Brazil’s big annual indigenous festival, is typical of towns in the Brazilian Amazon. The Sateré, and other indigenous groups...
A Savage Marx
Jean Tible argues that a living Marxism must be open to contamination in order to break the spell of bewitched capitalism. We must...
Brazil: map and timeline of rural massacres
As mentioned in Sue Branford & Thais Borges' article (Brazilian Amazon, 3 massaces in 12 days)Brazil's Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) has launched a ...
Voices against the new populism – LAB Newsletter, March 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
27
March 2019
Voices versus the new
populism
Voices of Latin
America: LAB’s newest book
was launched on 18 January in a packed-out event at RichMix...
Brazil: indigenous reserves to be opened up to mining
New Minister of Mines and Energy Admiral Bento Albuquerque announced on 4 March that he plans to permit mining on indigenous lands...
Brazil to build power line across indigenous land
The Brazilian state of Roraima is currently dependent for 70 percent of its power on Venezuela’s Guri hydroelectric dam. But socioeconomic chaos...
Belo Monte dam: conflict in the Amazon
The Belo Monte dam, now under construction in the Amazon, is heralded as an abundant power source for Brazil’s burgeoning economy. But critics...