Brazil: a book called João
April 11th 2017. In Rio recently ex-military officer and ultra rightwing deputy Jair Bolsanaro was applauded for his racist remarks at the Hebrew club,...
Brazil poised to approve Terminator seeds
With Brazil in political disarray, the agribusiness lobby is seeking gain approval from Congress for the Terminator seeds, that is, seeds genetically modified to be sterile. This would entail a huge risk for the country's precious biodiversity.
Peru: Green light for Marañon dams?
Bad news: the government has approved the energy companies' environmental impact report.
Colombia faces a second deadly threat
Crop eradication in Colombia is negating the crop substitution programme, causing violence and undermining the peace process, warns Christian Aid.
Stinging ants: Amazon indigenous group girds itself to hold ancestral lands
The ancestral home of the Sateré-Mawé indigenous group is the Andirá-Marau Indigenous Reserve, an officially demarcated, heavily forested region covering 780,000 hectares...
Mining victims denounce ‘Genocide legalized by the state’
Residents of traditional communities in the Brazilian Amazon municipality of Barcarena, near the mouth of the Amazon River, say that their subsistence and commercial livelihoods, and their health, have been destroyed by an invasion of mining companies which began in the mid-1980’s. This story is the fifth in a series.
Peru: Landmark climate change lawsuit moves forward
Indigenous Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya is suing German energy company RWE AG for the costs of preventing the glacial Lake Palcacocha from flooding his hometown of Huaraz.
Climate change: battle over 30 by 30
The '30 by 30' proposal in the UN's new draft Global Biodiversity Framework has drawn strong criticism from indigenous rights groups and critics of the 'national parks' approach to conservation
Tintin in the forests of Guatemala
The rainforests of Central America have come to north London.
One day Tintin decided he would like to sit on one of my freshly...
Voices in New York – LAB Newsletter April 2019
26 April 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
The shocking suicide of former President Alan García, as police arrived to arrest, may have been planned in...