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.
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.
Colombia: Indigenous protestors block roads in border region with Venezuela
We will be here until they free our people and the military stop falsely accusing us of links to the ELN’ says one striker.
CHILE: Police Evict Rapa Nui Clan from Easter Island Hotel
Police on Easter Island have evicted a group of indigenous people who had been occupying the grounds of a luxury hotel since last year.
Uncontacted Amazon Indians: remarkable footage
New photos obtained by Survival International show uncontacted Indians in extraordinary detail. The Indians are living in Brazil, near the Peruvian border.
Carta abierta de Hugo Blanco a Mario Vargas Llosa
In this open letter in Spanish, the author argues that Mario Vargas Llosa does not deserve the Nobel Prize in Literature because of his alleged anti-indigenous philosophy.
COLOMBIA: 38 indians demobilised through work of local NGO
At least 38 Indians, 20 of them minors and the rest no older than 25, have turned in their weapons and left behind the Colombian armed conflict thanks to a program sponsored by the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, or ACIN.
CHILE: UN Urges Chile to Halt Evictions of Indigenous Protesters
Following months of protests and sit-ins surrounding ancestral land claims on Chile’s Easter Island, the United Nations has officially called on the Chilean government to help diffuse tensions.
CHILE: Police continue evictions of occupied land on the Easter Islands
More than 100 Police Special Forces violently evicted Rapa Nui indigenous groups from the Government Plaza in the center of Hanga Roa over the holidays, causing injuries to at least nine people, three of them serious.
Brazil: soya and cattle in indigenous land
Farmers have illegally taken over 90% of the land belonging to a Xavante group in the north of Mato Grosso. According to a report in 'O Globo' newspaper, the Indians are fighting against the 'perverse economic logic' of soya and cattle.