Chávez Election Not So Different from the Rest of South America
Hugo Chávez's latest victory is just one of several re-elections of left-wing governments in South America, says Mark Weisbrot.
Part 6: Fordlândia
In the sixth and final episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford takes time off to visit Fordlândia, Henry Ford's failed attempt to create rubber plantations in the Brazilian Amazon.
Part 5: Altamira, Belo Monte, Anapu – colonos and loggers
In the fifth episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford continues eastwards along the Transamazônica highway to the town of Altamira, which, due to the Belo Monte hydroelectric power station, is expanding at a momentous rate.
The Putumayo Atrocities
The story of the near-extermination of indigenous communities in the early 1900s at the hands of the Peruvian Amazon Company.
Part 4: The Sister Dorothy Sustainable Development Project
In the fourth episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford visits the Sister Dorothy Sustainable Development Project (PDS), named after the American religious sister murdered in 2005 for her opposition to abuses by landowners and loggers.
Sao Paulo is sick
Pollution from rapidly increasing traffic is choking São Paulo. But when wheezing and coughing residents want health care, they find that the health service is sick. One problem is the distorting impact of the private health market.
Honduras: ‘Charter cities’ Plans in chaos
Plans to build three quasi-autonomous new cities in Honduras are facing challenges on many fronts, despite President Porfirio Lobo's determination to push them through.
El Salvador: Agreement with the gangs is vital
The principal mediator between the 'maras' armed gangs and the Salvadorean government is interviewed