Giving a Grade to Costa Rica’s Green Tourism

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 ...
Pacific Coast Communities Confront Shrimp Farm Threat

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

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

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

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

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 ...
Joining Forces for Peru's Rainforest

Joining Forces for Peru’s Rainforest

Mention of Peru’s rainforest conjures images of vast, trackless jungle rich in exotic plants and animals. But that image, on ...
Ecuador Oil Ruling: Whose Victory?

Ecuador Oil Ruling: Whose Victory?

On March 4, 2003, the Ecuadoran newspaper Hoy reported that Ecuador’s Ministry of Environment had agreed to allow two transnational ...