Mining: On the track of dirty gold
Through one character's journey meeting everyday heroes of resistance and telling their stories, Luis Manuel Claps documents the wave of organised resistance to large-scale industrial mining that spread from from the south of Patagonia as far as the Amazon.
Latin America at breaking point: a look back at two tumultuous...
Tom Gatehouse, author of Voices of Latin America: Social Movements and the New Activism and the upcoming The Heart of Our Earth: Community Resistance to Mining in Latin America, will then present ‘Latin America at breaking point: a look back at two tumultuous years’
Río Turbio: women marginalised by the mine
Shady River (Río Turbio), named after the mining town in northwest Argentina in which it is set, explores the gendered space of the mine, giving voice to a collective of marginalised women and shedding light on the tragedies that haunt the town of Río Turbio.
Latin America is Moving
A new online seminar series from the Latin America is Moving Collective will explore Latin American social movements before and after the pandemic.
Illegal mining poisons the Amazon
A new film by Jorge Bodansky analyzes the mercury contamination of Amazonian rivers as a result of illegal mining.
Mexico: more than 800 socio-environmental conflicts since 2006
A project called 'Talking to Goliath' has mapped social and environmental conflicts across the length and breadth of Mexico, caused by the development, expansion...
‘Throw them overboard’: Brazil mine disaster victims bullied over compensation
Communities awaiting compensation from the worst environmental disaster in Brazilian history say they’re being stymied by a convoluted legal process that favors those responsible.
Mexico: disputed territory – gold vs indigenous autonomy
This conflict centres on who owns the land: is it the communal agrarian authorities of Capulalpam or the individual citizens of Natividad who have historically depended on it?
Bolsonaro’s genocide of the Yanomami
The deliberate killing and starvation of indigenous Yanomami people in Roraima state is the direct result of the policies of the Bolsonaro government. As the new Lula administration rushes emergency aid to the area, calls are being made for Bolsonaro to be tried for genocide.
Ecuador: the Napo goldrush and the rise of the narco-garimpeiros
When large mining companies such as TerraEarth withdrew from gold mining in Ecuador's Napo province, they paved the way for smaller scale illegal miners to move in in force, financed by cocaine money, with terrible consequences