
Giving a Grade to Costa Ricas Green Tourism
Costa Rica is the poster child for ecotourism. This brand of nature-based tourism, which seeks to be low impact and ...

Pacific Coast Communities Confront Shrimp Farm Threat
A rusted, faded sign arches over the entrance to the town of Unión Hidalgo, in Mexicos southern state of Oaxaca ...

Lula’s Environment Policy: An Overview
As of this writing, the new Brazilian government headed by President Lula da Silva is scarcely two months old. It ...

Giving a Grade to Costa Rica’s Green Tourism
Costa Rica is the poster child for ecotourism. This brand of nature-based tourism, which seeks to be low impact and ...

Cuba: Crackdown on Dissidents
Cuban courts handed down heavy sentences of up to 28 years in the first weeks of April, after authorities arrested ...

Natural Rights: People and Environment in Latin America
In this NACLA Report we look at both growing cooperation and continuing conflict in the name of protecting Latin Americas ...

Joining Forces for Peru’s Rainforest
Mention of Perus rainforest conjures images of vast, trackless jungle rich in exotic plants and animals. But that image, on ...

Ecuador Oil Ruling: Whose Victory?
On March 4, 2003, the Ecuadoran newspaper Hoy reported that Ecuadors Ministry of Environment had agreed to allow two transnational ...