ECUADOR ABANDONS YASUNI AMAZON CONSERVATION PLAN
President Correa blames the international community's failure to compensate Ecuador for not extracting oil. His critics say he was never serious.
BRAZIL: DAY OF TERROR IN MATO GROSSO
First-hand accounts of a violent attack unleashed by Brazilian police against indigenous community along the Tapajos river.
Peru: Nahua people reject new gas drilling in Camisea field
Conflict is likely to sharpen in the Amazon area of south eastern Peru over plans to drill wells in Lot 88 home to the Kugapakori Nahua-Nanti reserve.
Guatemala: An inconvenient Attorney General
An interview with Claudia Paz y Paz, the prosecutor responsible for putting Efraín Ríos Montt on trial for genocide.
Brazil: Letters from Shamans and Young Guarani people
"White folk believe that all we seek is land. But what we really need is the earth." Indigenous people in Brazil spell out clear demands to keep their culture alive.
Belo Sun: Brazil’s Largest Gold Mine to be near site of...
The Brazilian government is about to approve the construction of the country’s largest ever gold mine at Volta Grande on the Xingu River, only a short distance from the site of the internationally criticised Belo Monte dam.
Che wants to see you
Ciro Bustos was an Argentine guerrilla who accompanied Che Guevara in his doomed Bolivian adventure in 1967. LAB's editor Javier Farje spoke to him during a brief visit to London. Video and blog. In Spanish
Argentina — the use of the land
In a hard-hitting article, two Argentine analysts criticise the government's land policies, with their emphasis on exports, mining, and oil and gas exploitation (including fracking). Indigenous resistance has led to 12 deaths in the past three years.
On the Road
In the first of their blogs of their Latin American trip, Ana Caistor Arendar and Matt Kennard visit a Zapatista village in the south of Mexico where change is in the air.
Editorial Cartonera Intercultural, Laboratorio de Prácticas Artísticas Comunitarias
Una propuesta multi- e interdisciplinaria que conjuga las artes literarias y visuales contemporaneas en el Ecuador.