Panama: Clashes as Guaymi protest over copper mining law
Police in Panama have clashed with dozens of indigenous protesters trying to prevent copper mining on their ancestral lands.
Mexico’s Refugees: A Hidden Cost of the Drugs War
As fighting between rival drug cartels intensifies Rosenburg looks as the social dislocation which is occuring for the people who live in the worst hit areas.
Brazil: Belo Monte dam ruling reversed
While the country was absorbed in the annual Carnival, construction work began on the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric power station, after a higher court overruled an earlier judicial decision to halt the project on envrionmental and social grou
Brazil: the latest round in the Guarani struggle
At the end of February, the trial was held of the men accused of killing the Guarani leader Marcos Verón in 2003. Jan Rocha, who was at the trial, sent this special report.
Belo Monte: The dialogue that never happened
Bishop Erwin Kräutler, the president of CIMI (Indigenous Missionary Council) in Brazil, has published an "open letter" in which he attacks the government's decision to push ahead with the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Amazon basin.
Brazil: OAS calls for halt to Belo Monte
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organisation of American States (OAS) says that work should end on the Belo Monte hydroelectric power station on the Xingu river, pending "full, free and informed" consultation with the affected comm
Colombia’s Indigenous Communities Demand Demilitarization as Fighting Escalates
In Colombia, indigenous peoples continue to be the victims of the internal armed conflict, which is escalating once again. Some communities are saying enough is enough.
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.
Bolivia: Amazon Road Plan Has Native People on the March Again
Indigenous people in the eastern lowlands of Bolivia are again preparing to make the long march to La Paz, 21 years after their first such protest.
Guatemala: Food Crisis in the Polochic Exacerbates as Government Repression Continues
Eviction of indigenous community in Guatemala.