South America

From January to June of this year — the first six months of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s presidential term — deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon has fallen 33.6 percent, new government satellite data shows, as The Associated Press reported. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Lula’s stricter…

What do Argentina and South Sudan have in common? At first glance, nothing. While one has a vast territory – it is the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world – the African nation could fit in the territory of two…

The governing alliance in Chile today is dealing with “damage control”, after it was revealed in the press that influence peddling was used to financially feed, with direct and millionaire flows, NGOs administered by cadres of Giorgio Jackson’s party, “Revolución…

“The idea is that these same groups, who have been isolated from this development strategy and have even been affected by the extractive processes, go from being marginalised to being protagonists,” said the DC senator. By Carolina Ceballos Francisco Huenchumilla,…

The Peruvian nation is a historical process prior to the Peruvian state. It is an unfinished cultural historical synthesis, dislocated from a state that neither articulates nor benefits national development. The winds of a coming national and cultural awakening are…

The multinational Pan American Silver, which has accumulated complaints in four Latin American countries, acquired the MARA mining project in Catamarca. Broad rejection by the residents of Andalgalá, a town that has known the impacts of mega-mining since the 1990s,…

“Your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness.” My name is Antonia. I was 26 years old, I was reading at the time when I rubbed my eye and I resumed reading and suddenly I…

The respected London newspaper Financial Times ran with the following headline last week: “The discreet U.S. campaign to defend Brazil’s election.” The report, written by Michael Stott, Michael Pooler and Bryan Harris, deals with a “pressure campaign” carried out by…

Public policies are needed that address the scale of the problem according to its urgency, and this is not what the administration of Dina Boluarte and Alberto Otárola seems to be emphasising. The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the International…

In a document addressed to the international community, various humanist expressions denounced the repression unleashed by the government of Gerardo Morales in the Argentinean province of Jujuy against the non-violent protest of education workers, indigenous peoples, social and trade union…