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 ...
(Mis)Labeling Activists
On April 14, María Elena Foronda was awarded a Goldman Environmental Prize, one of six given each year to grassroots ...
Mexico: Lacandon Selva Conflict Grows
The Cessna bush plane takes off from Ocosingo, where the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico slope down to the Lacandon Selvathe ...
Brazil’s New Eye on the Amazon
The gleaming military installation rises from the patchy forests surrounding Belém, a city of one million people in Brazils eastern ...
Guatemala: Turning Back the Clock
While the world is focused on the U.S. aggression against Iraq, an invisible political conflict worsens in Guatemala. There, pro-democracy ...
