Lithium: draining the desert
Peine, Chile and Susques, Argentina – Within minutes of driving out of
tourist hotspot San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile you are deep in...
How an indigenous community halted mining
Conversing with Goliath is a research project carried out by FLACSO-Mexico and De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, sponsored by the British Academy (2017-2020). The...
The Brumadinho dam collapse: six months on
This edited extract from Christian Aid Brazil Programme's newsletter, updates and expands on the earlier article published by LAB. 'The lessons of Brumadinho: put...
Mining: The Rivers are Bleeding
The
vast expansion of British mega-mining in Latin America is displacing
communities, destroying ecosystems, costing lives and polluting our
planet. The Rivers are Bleeding:...
The lesson of Brumadinho: put rights before profits
This edited extract from a Christian Aid report, dated 11 June 2019, was prepared by LAB
When a dam at Vale SA’s iron ore mine...
Pumé
The Pumé people (sometimes called Yaruro) live in the savanna plains of Venezuela, the Llanos, located west of the Orinoco River. Most Pumé communities...
Brazil: another dam collapse imminent
Situated only 60km from Brumadinho, where a massive tailings dam collapse killed 270 workers and local residents on 25 January 2019, is the small...
Former ministers blast Bolsonaro’s environmental assaults
A new manifesto by eight of Brazil’s past environment ministers has accused the rightist Bolsonaro administration of “a series of unprecedented actions...
Bolivia: 21 days working in a tin mine
Spanish journalist Samanta Villar Fans spent 21 days working in an artesanal tin mine in Bolivia in 2009. She filmed it for her programme...
Brumadinho: a gallery of destruction
On 25 January 2019 a huge tailings dam at the Feijão iron ore mine, near Brumadinho, in Minas Gerais, Brazil, collapsed suddenly and catastrophically....