PERU: MONTERRICO BUYS JUSTICE CHEAPLY
UK mining company Monterrico settles out of court at a very low price
ARTISANAL MINING IN PERU: BLESSING OR CURSE?
Small-scale mining is often portrayed as the worst exploiter, both of workers and the environment. The truth is more complex.
CENTRAL AMERICA: CANADIAN MINING COMPANIES RAMPANT
An interactive map of major mine projects by Environmental Campaign for Central America (ENCA)
COLOMBIA: COMMUNITIES MUST DECIDE
Key to avoiding conflict around mining is genuine and informed consultation with local communities
MINING IS ONLY ONE OF THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
Not only minerals and oil, but monocultures such as soya and prawn farming are extractive industries. We need a new response to the wider problem.
Mining in Latin America: deepening contradictions
Governments of right and left are welcoming large scale mining, but the social and environmental costs are mounting and communities are less inclined to suffer them
Colombia: Poverty falls but the gaps widen
Between 2002 and 2010 poverty fell in Colombia, though less than in other Latin American countries. But the gaps, especially between the main urban centres and rural areas, widened.
The Achuar indigenous people wins against oil company
The Achuar peoples of Peru’s Amazon region have forced the withdrawal of a Canadian oil-mining company from their traditional territory after an eight-year battle
PERU: OLLANTA HUMALA’S FIRST TURBULENT YEAR
Ollanta Humala promised to tackle the country's deep-seated social inequalities when he took over a year ago. But, says LAB's Javier Farje, his supporters are feeling bitterly disappointed.
MEXICO: FARMERS TAKE ON THE MINING COMPANIES
Mexican farmers are up in arms against mining companies that threaten their communities.