COLOMBIA: THE CITY OF LONDON’S ROLE IN THE BLOODY CIVIL WAR
UK companies and banks are some of the leading investors in Colombia, much of the money going to extractive projects and the means of securing them.
Over one million Hondurans demand change
Over the last few months the FNRP has collected 1.2 million signatures from all over the country for a petition demanding a new constitution
Saweto: The violence of oblivion
This article is an edited version of one published by Ojo Público. You can see the original here.
Five years after the murder in the heart...
Communities battle to save Amazon forest
Amazon communities have seized barges of hard wood to protest over illegal logging. Americas Report has the story
Brazil — new government report warns of serious climate change
Report foresees failed hydropower and reduced harvests by 2040
The Amazon: Mura indigenous community demands say over potash mine
In 2013, Potássio do Brasil, a subsidiary of the Canadian merchant bank, Forbes & Manhattan, began drilling exploratory wells for a giant...
Brazil: Forest code vote shows strength of agribusiness lobby
With the new Forest Code approved by the Senate, the agribusiness lobby presents President Dilma Rousseff with a new challenge: how much will she veto?
Colombia: corporate claims vs human rights
Glencore, owner of the vast Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia, is using the grotesque Investor State Dispute Settlement process to prevent the Colombian government from protecting its own citizens and environment. Jen Moore was part of an international delegation to study this problem.
Brazil slashes environmental protection
A new report documents draconian budget cuts to Brazilian environmental monitoring and firefighting of 9.8% in 2020, and 27.4% in 2021 — reductions, analysts...
The Amazon: halt illegal cattle farms
Amnesty international has launched a new report into illegal cattle farming in the Brazilian Amazon.Cattle farming is the main driver of illegal land seizures...