Brazil: pressure for agrarian reform
A broad range of social movements are calling for a more ambitious programme of agrarian reform. LAB's Francis McDonagh reports from Sao Paulo.
ALBA Expands its Allies in the Caribbean
The Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (ALBA), an organisation promoted by Venezuela for promoting closer regional trade, has been expanding in the Caribbeam. A report by Kevin Edwards of NACLA.
COLOMBIA: OBAMA LOOK-ALIKE COMPETITION
When President Obama visits Cartagena in mid-April, he may have a few surprises.
PARAGUAY: UNLEASHING YOUNG GIRLS’ POTENTIAL.
LAB's Claudia Pompa reports on how the Centro Educativo Mbaracayu (CEM), located in the Mbaracayi Forest Biosphere Reserve in north-east Paraguay, educates and trains girls from rural communities to become 'rural and environmental entrepreneurs'.
Brazil: the Carbon Credit Bonanza
Brazil: the Carbon Credit Bonanza. Celestial Green Ventures, a carbon trading company based in Ireland, has been quietly signing contracts with a series of indigenous groups in the Amazon.
COLOMBIA: HUMAN RIGHTS CHIAROSCURO IN 2011
OXFAM partner Somos Defensores issues new report on human rights abuses in Colombia.
Guatemala: resisting destruction
Guatemala Women Defenders Defy Canadian Mines and Plead for Help
Honduras: Carbon Blood Money
The expanding palm oil industry is exacerbating hunger in an impoverished country, yet it is receiving carbon credits. Rosie Wong reports.
Brazil: life for women under Dilma
When Dilma Rousseff became Brazil's first female president in January 2011, women had high expectations.Brazilian journalist Tatiana Farah looks atwhat she has achieved so far.
A Chronicle of Hell, Women and Hope
The author describes the pain of the women whose relatives, from husbands to brothers, died in the prison fire of Comayagua, in Honduras.