Mexico: Lacandon Selva Conflict Grows
The Cessna bush plane takes off from Ocosingo, where the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico slope down to the Lacandon Selva—the ...
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 Brazil’s 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 ...
Pacific Coast Communities Confront Shrimp Farm Threat
A rusted, faded sign arches over the entrance to the town of Unión Hidalgo, in Mexico’s 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 America’s ...
