PEASANT AGRICULTURE IS THE ANSWER
Vía Campesina, the world-wide peasant organisation, argues that the 'green economy' is interested in profit, not people.
Four Dead in Honduras Rains
After a heavier than usual rainy season throughout Central America in 2010, Honduras deals with further heavy rainfall over the weekend.
Venezuela: protest letter in the Guardian
Leading activists and thinkers criticise the Guardian newspaper for failing to report on a 10,000-person march in Caracas to demand justice for the hundreds of peasant activists assassinated by wealthy landowners.
The Poor Always Pay: The Electoral Crisis in Haiti
Beverly Bell looks at the real winners and losers from the crisis which has taken over since the disputed elections in Haiti on 28th November. Regardless of who is drawn the winner in the second round, it is the poor, who number the greatest, who will
Mexico: Zapatistas: The war with no breath?
Arsenault looks back at the acheivements of the Zapatista rebellion 17 years on.
COLOMBIA: Afro-Colombian communities under attack again
Afro-Colombian communities in the Chocó suffer land invasions once again. Read more for an English summary followed by original in Spanish.
Will Lulismo illuminate Peru?
President Ollanta Humala has made no secret of his admiration for the model employed by former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil.
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.
The Amazon: rivers of life, circles of learning 3
In the last of three articles, Dan Baron continues his reliving of the Backyard Drums as it evolves into the AfroRaiz Collective, coordinators of the Rios de Encontro community arts education project based in Cabelo Seco, the 'poor' founding village of Marabá, Pará, in the Brazilian Brazil. Tensions flare among the young people, as they ‘learn to listen: to learn, rather than to gossip and slash the wings of those who want to fly.’
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.