PARAGUAY: GIRLS IN THE FOREST: UNLEASHING YOUNG GIRLS’ POTENTIAL.
LAB's Claudia Pompa reports on how the Centro Educativo Mbaracayu (CEM), located in the Mbaracayú Forest Biosphere Reserve in north-east Paraguay, educates and trains girls from rural communities to become 'rural and environmental entrepreneurs'.
COLOMBIA: OBAMA LOOK-ALIKE COMPETITION
When President Obama visits Cartagena in mid-April, he may have a few surprises.
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.
MEXICO: PLANTING A SEED FOR CHANGE IN WOMEN’S LABOUR RIGHTS
In a special report for LAB, Mexican NGO Semillas describes its work to support women employed in maquila factories and as domestic servants.
South America’s ‘Brown Left’
Many governments in South America see themselves as progressive, yet all are involved in conflicts over the environment.
Venezuela: the social transformation
Since he came to office in 1999, Hugo Chávez has become increasingly radical in his social policies. In a special article for LAB, Rachel Boothroyd looks as whether he has, indeed, managed to transform the country, as he promised.
Latin America: Lessons of the Debt Crisis
On 20 February 2012, the Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) brought together prominent economists and government officials from Latin America and elsewhere for a one-day conference on the region's experience of debt crises.
Venezuela: empowering the poor
Steve Ellner, an adjunct professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, takes a close look at the attempts of the Chavez government to incorporate excluded and semi-excluded groups into the life of the nation.
Honduras: deaths foretold
Back in 2006, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) had ordered the Honduran government to take urgent measures to improve prison conditions.
Mining and the Management of Water Resources in Peru
Peru is a country rich in natural resources. It is the world’s largest producer of silver, the second of copper and zinc, and the sixth of gold. Yet the distribution of these resources within the country is highly uneven.