Thursday, March 28, 2024

Rural Communities

MEXICO: VIGILANTES — FRIEND OR FOE?

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Self-defence units are springing up all over Mexico.The Peña Nieto government has signed a pact legalizing many of them, but will it be able to control their activities?

Peru: Green light for Marañon dams?

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Bad news: the government has approved the energy companies' environmental impact report.

The Zapatistas: learning their philosophy and practice

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A textbook from the Escuelita, the Zapatista 'little school', to help you learn about autonomous government.

Colombia: Santos under pressure from rural activists

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Agrarian, indigenous and other communities and an emergent centre-left opposition are piling on the pressure in the run-up to presidential elections in May.

Peru: Giant phosphate mine threatens fisheries

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Opencast mining at Bayovar, owned by a subsidiary of Brazilian giant Vale, is polluting the bay and the local environment.

El Salvador: Jasmine’s War

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LAB reviews a new novel about the country's civil war

Chile: no quick fix for Mapuche crisis

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President Bachelet is finding that dialogue is not enough to resolve Chile's long-running dispute with its Mapuche peoples.

Brazil: Plinio dies

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Leading left-wing intellectual Plinio de Arruda Sampaio has died.

Mobile Phones: The new vox pop

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Across Mexico and Central America cell-phones bring benefits and some dangers, especially for women.

Brazil — upsurge in rural violence

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Rural leaders are being targeted as a result of the government's failure to clamp down on impunity in the countryside.

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