CHILE: COMMUNITIES DEFY BARRICK GOLD
Communities in the Huasco Valley defy company attempts to silence them and detail the environmental damage being wrought by the Pascua Lama gold mine.
The ‘war’ on drugs is an aberration: Raul Sohr
International analyst Raul Sohr tells LAB's Mike Gatehouse that the USA cannot 'win' war it declared 40 years ago.
High time to demand peace on drugs
Talli Nauman, from Americas Program, argues that it is time for the USA to completely change its policies on drugs in Latin America.
¿El cartel de EE UU?
El País journalist Andrés Oppenheimer argues that the National Rifle Association of the USA is partly responsible for the drug violence in Mexico. In Spanish.
Drugs: The Debate Goes Mainstream
Former Latin American Presidents and members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy say it is time for a new policy on drugs.
Statement by Engelberto Domínguez, President of the Asociacion Campesina Nacional (ACAN)...
In Spanish and English.
HONDURAS: News from a land occupation in Bajo Aguán
Consuelo Castillo, one of the organisers of a land occupation in Lempira, Bajo Aguán, says agribusiness has illegally pushed families off the land to turn it over to cultivation of palm oil for biofuel.
HONDURAS: Blood on those carbon credits
Long-standing land disputes in the Honduran countryside boil over as palm oil plantations (grown for ‘green energy’) displace more peasant families.
LAB Interviews Quintin Andino Flores
Summary of Interview with Quintin Andino Flores, Project Director of COCOCH (Consejo Coordinado de Organizaciones Campesinas de Honduras)
Drugs in Latin America: time for a debate
Javier Farje, from LAB, argues that the debate about the failure of the so-called war on drugs is long overdue.