Argentina tries to combat a drier future
Argentina is suffering a terrible drought. Is climate change to blame?
As the climate dries, Mexico’s milk region faces arsenic threat
Climate change is destroying the dairy industry in some regions of Mexico.
USAID’s Alternative Development policy in Colombia
This report, published last year, analyses the flaws of the U.S. approach to the fight against drug production in Colombia
Uruguay: land occupations
Landless peasants have occupied an estate in the extreme north of Uruguay. The action is mainly intended to put pressure on the Broad Front government, says MercoPress.
Haiti: bulldozing camps
Rapadoo Observateur expresses outrage in his blog at the way politicians are sending in the police to clear residents out of camps, in a ruthless attempt to sort out age-old land disputes.
Brazil: the Haitian influx
Fleeing the chaos at home, hundreds of Haitians are paying coyotes (fixers) to take them, via Peru and Bolivia, to Brazil.
Apuntes sobre las elecciones en el Caribe Norte
In this article (in Spanish), the author visits a region that two decades ago was at the centre of the fight between the Reagan-sponsored contras and the Sandinistas, and finds that the Miskito indians have not experienced much progress.
Trials and Tenacity in Honduran Women’s Struggle for Land Rights
Despite being denied time and again title to the land they farm, a group of women from El Estribo is not giving up.
Brazil: the Kaiowá-Guarani genocide
The slow decline of the Kaiowá-Guarani Indians continues, fuelled by their terrible lack of land. Any government -- and particularly Brazil's PT government -- should feel deeply ashamed. Jan Rocha reports from São Paulo.