Argentina tries to combat a drier future
Argentina is suffering a terrible drought. Is climate change to blame?
Uruguay: land occupations
Landless peasants have occupied an estate in the extreme north of Uruguay. The action is mainly intended to put pressure on the Broad Front government, says MercoPress.
Haiti: the ongoing cholera epidemic
Well over a year since the epidemic began, people are still threatened by the deadly diseases, warns Médecins Sans Frontières.
Haiti: bulldozing camps
Rapadoo Observateur expresses outrage in his blog at the way politicians are sending in the police to clear residents out of camps, in a ruthless attempt to sort out age-old land disputes.
Haiti: where’s the outrage?
Melina Miles, founder of 'Let Haiti Live', ponders in her blog at the lack of outrage in the country at what she calls "the criminal negligence" in many of the disaster relief operations.
Brazil: the Haitian influx
Fleeing the chaos at home, hundreds of Haitians are paying coyotes (fixers) to take them, via Peru and Bolivia, to Brazil.
Letter from Recife
Francis McDonagh has returned to Recife in the north-east of Brazil after an absence of over a decade. This is his first blog on his trip to South America.
Haiti: The slow road to reconstruction
Two years after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, Oxfam believes that the government has not done enough to meet the needs of the victims.
Latin America: poverty falls
From 1990 to 2010, poverty has fallen from 48% of the population of Latin America to 31%, according to a report from the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Haiti: “We Are Tired of Living under Tents”
Homeless people are pressing for urgent action to provide them with housing.