The importance of sugarcane and its derivative, ethanol, in Brazil, considering the last report of IPCC about world climate. Brazil: Sugar and global warming The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
Competing and conflicting interests of economic development and environmental protection in Brazil. Brazil: Double standards in environmental issues Brazil is a country with vast and varied areas of outstanding natural…
Brazil’s Public Security Forces to protect the Amazonian Belo Monte dam from protesters; Bolivia threatens to leave the CIDH; Mapuche woman publishes her first book. Brazil’s Public Security Forces to…
Indigenous Panamanians withdraw from UN-REDD; Bolivia celebrates the National Day of Coca-Leaf Chewing; New law to protect women from violence comes into effect in Bolivia. UN-REDD Programme left without indigenous…
Oil and gas giant plans to explore sacred indigenous land; indigenous Panamanians threaten to obstruct the Panamericana highway; indigenous Colombians propose an economic alternative to the capital model. Oil and gas giant…
Leaked documents reveal Pluspetrol plan to operate in protected nature reserve; México: National Crusade Against Hunger; Mayan people pay tribute to Spanish priest killed 32 years ago in Guatemala Leaked documents reveal…
Former president of Guatemala to face trial; The People’s Summit and CELAC-EU summit take place in Chile; Costa Rica gives green light to Monsanto’s GM corn Former president of Guatemala…
EU-Central America association agreement; ‘Penacho de Moctezuma’ is exhibited in Vienna; Indigenous Aztec calls for march on Vienna
The impact of mining in Colombia; American oil company must pay a group of Ecuadorian indigenous tribes US$19bn; Colombian indigenous leader survives gunshot attack. The impact of mining in Colombia Two…
On 15 October 2012, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales promulgated one of the most radical environmental legislation in global history: the Law of Mother Earth. Matatea Changuy and Sophie Beier take…
