HONDURAS: THE WAR IN AGUAN
Two more subsistence farmers have been killed in the violence relating to land ownership in the Aguan region of northern Honduras.
JOAO ZINCLAR: KILLED IN AN ACCIDENT
With great sadness we report the premature death of Brazilian photographer João Zinclar, who took many of the photographs which illustrate the LAB book "Cutting The Wire - The Story of the Landless Movement in Brazil", published in 2002.
HONDURAS: THE YEAR AHEAD
An international observer in Honduras looks at the issues likely to dominate the political and social agenda there over the coming months
DOM PEDRO’S GREETINGS CARD
Greetings card sent for Christmas & New Year 2012/3 by Dom Pedro Casaldáliga (in Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan)
BRAZIL AND THE SCANDAL OF THE RURAL LOBBY
In a surprisingly frank interview with the Brazilian weekly, Carta Capital, Paulo Maldos, a presidential aide, says that he has been shocked by the unscrupulous way the rural landowners lobby the government at the highest level.
COLOMBIA: PROTESTS OVER PLANNED GOLD PROJECT
Hundreds of people have protested about a proposed gold processing plant, which they fear will diminish and pollute local water supplies.
VENEZUELA: NO RETURN TO THE ‘GOOD OLD DAYS’
Larry Birns and Frederick B. Mills, from COHA, warn Washington against trying to take advantage of any post-Chavez political turmoil to try to reimpose neo-liberalism.
VENEZUELA: ‘LEARNING TO GOVERN OURSELVES’
As concern mounts about the health of President Hugo Chávez, grassroots activists have been discussing how best to defend the Bolivarian revolution.