Colombia: Incompliance, continued violence and crop eradication
Main image: Community leaders, military and San Pablo municipal delegates meet. Photo: Jaskiran Kaur Chohan
Just over a year ago many Colombians and observers around...
Colombia: the dark side of peace in Tumaco
Where demobilisation of the FARC may leave a dangerous vacuum and increased violence
Brazil: the ‘Pacification’ of Rocinha
On 13th November, heavily-armed security forces took over the favela of Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, evicting the drug-traffickers.
Central America: two, three, many Atlantic-Pacific canals
Not only Nicaragua, but Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia and Costa Rica are all promoting 'wet' or 'dry' canal projects to join the two oceans. Chinese money is backing all of them.
Amazon Besieged – by dams, soya, agribusiness and land-grabbing
The Tapajós River, a major tributary of the Amazon, is renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity and the vitality of its indigenous and riverine communities....
Hora Chilena: Chilean refugees in Cambridge in a Britain at ease...
A documentary film about Chilean Refugees in Cambridge, England, prompts wider questions about a time when the words 'refugee' and 'asylum' prompted sympathy rather than fear.
Brazil 1964: Never again!
March 31 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the military coup in Brazil, which ushered in the era of dictatorships in Latin America.
New era in China-Latin America relations
China's growing willingness to engage with Latin America could transform the region, argues Raul Zibechi.
Colombia: peace, but maybe not the peace we hoped for
Without addressing crucial elements of the original agreement, the revised peace deal risks not living up to expectations in Colombia.
It has been a year...
Força Nacional: Brazil’s New Praetorian Guard?
No longer under the control of state governors, the FSN threatens to become a parallel military force at the beck and call of the President.