BOLIVIA: LEVEL OF TENSION FALLS
With an end to the police strike and the arrival in La Paz of the TIPNIS march, the political situation has become calmer. The Bolivia Information Forum reports.
COALiTION OF BOLIVIAN NGOS REJECTS OFFICIAL RIO+20 DECLARATION:
The Rio+20 approach makes things worse by putting nature up for sale, says the Bolivian Climate Change Platform, which represents indigenous organisations and social movements in Bolivia
PARAGUAY: BRAZILIAN EXPANSIONISM
The rapid growth of large soya monocultures, mainly in Brazilian hands, is leading to 9,000 peasant families being forced off their land each year. This is fuelling land conflict, says Perla Álvarez, from the rural women's organisation, Conamuri.
AMAZON BASIN: ENERGY WITHOUT DESTRUCTION
Wind and solar energy are much better ways of generating energy in the Amazon basin than the present plan for 150 large hydroelectric power stations, says Pedro Bara Neto, from WWF, in an interview with LAB.
“LULA AND DILMA HAVE PILLAGED THE AMAZON,” SAYS BISHOP
Bishop Erwin Kräutler, bishop of Xingu since 1980, decries the marginalisation of the indians and other Amazon communities, saying that Brazil is a 'civilian dictatorship'.
BOLIVIA: SECOND TIPNIS MARCH NEARS LA PAZ
Protest against the proposed road continues. Dario Kenner reports from Bolivia.
BRAZIL: “ACCELERATED PROCESS OF REVERSE”
On the eve of Rio+20, former environment minister Marina Silva expresses her frustration at the government's environmetal policies
Honduras: funeral of man assassinated by police
COPINH, the indigenous organisation, issues statement protesting about police brutality (in Spanish).
Honduras: direct intervention
On 11 May 2012 US and Honduran soldiers shot a group of Miskito Indians from a helicopter, claiming they were involved in drug-trafficking. Berta Cáceres from COPINH says that the indigenous community is under seige.
PERU: Indigenous protests lead to talks
Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon force oil companies to talk