Nicaragua’s Grand Canal: 4 –The Emperor’s New Funds
One of the largest construction projects in the world, costing four times Nicaragua's annual GDP --so where is the money coming from?
Nicaragua’s Grand Canal: 3 –No excavation without consultation
Protest against Ortega's Canal project is concentrated in farms, communities and indigenous groups along the planned route.
SOS Water Crisis!
The São Paulo state authorities have finally had to admit it – São Paulo may well run out of water completely in a few months.
Nicaragua’s Grand Canal: 2 –The environment vs the economy
Ecotastrophe or 200,000 jobs and a doubling of GDP? The Canal debate rages.
Nicaragua’s Grand Canal: 1 — Schism amongst the Sandinistas
LAB launches a new series of articles by Russell White on Daniel Ortega's pet $50 billion project. The first examines the deep differences among the Sandinistas.
The paranoid style in Brazilian politics
A close look at some writers and bloggers on the Brazilian right and their links to Veja magazine.
Venezuela: Maduro and the ‘economic war’
Is the Maduro government deploying canny pragmatism, or has it retreated from Chavez' commitment to redistribution?
Venezuela: anti-neoliberal redistribution or crude populism?
A detailed examination for UNRISD of how Venezuela has sought to use its oil wealth to improve health care and reduce inequality.
Obama should not prop up Mexico’s corrupt president
President Obama has nothing to gain, and much to lose, by propping up Mexico’s corrupt President Peña Nieto. With Peña Nieto in Washington today(6 January), it is time for a change of policy.
Bolivia transforms its transport system
How a spectacular urban cable car system and a new municipal bus program are revolutionizing mass transit in La Paz and El Alto, with the help of some political competition.