Brazil — The Polluted Face of Carajás. 2
Air pollution coming from the pig iron factories that surround the small community of Piquiá is making the inhabitants seriously ill
PERU: ESPINAR CONFLICT BACK FROM THE BRINK
A long-running conflict around the town of Espinar in southern Peru shows how social conflicts over mining develop and can be resolved
Living in the shadow of Amazon tailings dams
Mineração Rio do Norte (MRN), the world’s fourth largest bauxite producer, encroached on riverine communities beside the Trombetas River in the Brazilian Amazon in...
PERU: TORTURE AT THE RIO BRANCO MINE
A new and detailed study of disputes since 2003 at the Río Blanco mine, Piura.
CHILE: PUBLIC OR PRIVATE EDUCATION?
Nick Caistor, from LAB, analyses the reasons behind the students protests in Chile.
Fighting illegal mining in Yanomami territory
Agência Pública chronicles the work of Brazil's environmental protection agency, IBAMA, to root illegal miners out of the territory of the Yanomami people -- in an effort to fulfil Lula's pledge of action
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: TOXIC LEGACY
Mass protests against cyanide contamination from Canadian-owned gold mine
CENTRAL AMERICA: CANADIAN MINING COMPANIES RAMPANT
An interactive map of major mine projects by Environmental Campaign for Central America (ENCA)
El Salvador battles it out with multinational
When Corporations Sue Governments
An international gold mining company is refusing to accept the Salvadorean government's decision to expel it from the country for the...
The Heart of Our Earth campaign video
Across Latin America, mining has expanded massively in recent decades. But communities aren't taking this lying down. LAB plans a new book and website, entitled The Heart of Our Earth: Community Resistance to Mining in Latin America.