Latin America: Millennium Development Goals
This week UN delegates meeting in New York are evaluating progress made in achieving the MDGs. Amnesty International has produced three radio programmes in Spanish.
Mexico’s modern revolutionaries
As Mexico marks its 1810 and 1910 uprisings, 2010's upheaval is likely to be about drugs, not politics.
Dilma Rousseff and the magic of Lula
Raul Zibechi says Brazil's likely first woman president owes her dramatic rise to the man who's brought millions out of poverty.
Ecuador: Police Mutiny Threatens Democracy
Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, is attempting to defuse the police riots. IPS reports from Quito.
Bitter fruit: pineapples in Costa Rica
Pineapples in Costa Rica: Over the last decade intensive agriculture has led to a big surge in pineapple production in Costa Rica but at horrific cost to workers, peasant families and biodiversity. Felicity Lawrence takes an in-depth l
Colombia: A Congress for the People
Some 20,000 people met in Bogotá to draw up their own agenda for the country's future. Gearóid Ó Loingsigh sent this special report for LAB.
UN criticises Mexico for indigenous policies
The level of social inequality among indigenous groups is 11 times greater than in any other group. Article, in Spanish , in El Universal newspaper.
Guatemala: Inequality, not food shortages, to blame for food crisis
Weak, regressive tax regimes lead to poverty and government underfunding fails to redress the balance. Christian Aid reports.
“Canasta Básica” Unaffordable for Most Hondurans
Honduras Weekly reports on the unaffordable cost of living for many Hondurans.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Does Fair Trade Coffee Eliminate Poverty?
CENTRAL AMERICA: DOES FAIR TRADE COFFEE ELIMINATE POVERTY? Anders Riel Müller investigates the relationship between Poverty and Fair Trade, presenting it as a multi-faceted problem in which Fair Trade is only part of the solution.