The Growing Resistance to Megadams in Bolivia
A growing resistance to the Chepete/ El Bala megadam is challenging President Evo Morales’s plan to convert Bolivia into South ...
Morales Greenlights TIPNIS Road, Oil and Gas Extraction in Bolivia’s National Parks
Bolivian President Evo Morales escalates the stakes in the debate over extractivism as an anti-poverty strategy ...
Bolivia: New Road Contract Ramps Up Stakes in TIPNIS Conflict
Bolivian President Evo Morales has signed a new construction contract for the first segment of a controversial highway that would ...
President Santos and the Question of Land Reform in Colombia
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos recently declared that his government was committed to implementing the recently passed Victims’ Law, which ...
The World Bank Development Report and the Colombian Conflict
In May, the World Bank published its 2011 World Development Report, in which it considered civil wars and organized crime ...
Latest UNDP Report on Colombia: ‘It’s the Rural Economy, Stupid.’
The United Nations Development Programme’s latest report on Colombia, released last week, reaffirmed what experts have claimed for a very ...
Santos, Is It Time For a Peacful Settlement?
For almost a century the dominant classes of Colombia have refused to accept a meaningful land reform as a way ...
Multinational Corporations in Colombia: Land Grab!
In 2009 the foreign direct investment (FDI) in Colombia amounted to $7.2 billion, which was a significant increase from the ...
