HAITI: Shelters That Don’t Shelter the Needy
After a lengthy investigation, Haiti Grassroots Watch has uncovered substantial misuse of the post-earthquake housing provided by the UK charity, Tearfund.
A new beginning for US-Latin American relations?
Latin America is emerging as an ecological superpower that the United States needs to respect, argues Juan Gabriel Tokatlian, from the Universidad Di Tella in Buenos Aires.
GUATEMALA: A BISHOP SPEAKS OUT ABOUT DAMAGE CAUSED BY GOLDCORP’S MARLIN...
Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini of the Diocese of San Marcos has written a hard-hitting report on the environmental, health and social damage caused by Goldcorp’s Marlin mine, located in his diocese.
Victims of Agrochemicals Break their Silence
A documentary made by Friends of the Earth in Uruguay reveals the suffering among the rural population in Uruguay, because of the indiscriminate spraying of herbicides. Raúl Zibechi reports.
Mayan people sue Canadian company
Lawsuits against Canadian company HudBay Minerals Inc. over human rights abuse in Guatemala
Paraguay’s Silent War
GM soya arrived later in Paraguay than in Brazil and Argentina. But the violence it has provoked has been more intense, as producers and campesinos battle for control over the land. Claudia Pompa reports.
Protests in Southern Chile Spread to Other Remote Regions
Widespread protests about government neglect have broken out in Arica and Calama in the north of Chile, mirroring those staged in Aysen in the south earlier in the year.
Brazil: pressure for agrarian reform
A broad range of social movements are calling for a more ambitious programme of agrarian reform. LAB's Francis McDonagh reports from Sao Paulo.
PARAGUAY: UNLEASHING YOUNG GIRLS’ POTENTIAL.
LAB's Claudia Pompa reports on how the Centro Educativo Mbaracayu (CEM), located in the Mbaracayi Forest Biosphere Reserve in north-east Paraguay, educates and trains girls from rural communities to become 'rural and environmental entrepreneurs'.
Honduras: Carbon Blood Money
The expanding palm oil industry is exacerbating hunger in an impoverished country, yet it is receiving carbon credits. Rosie Wong reports.