Land Dispossession

A wind energy boom on Colombia's Caribbean coast threatens to continue the dispossession of Indigenous communities—with a green veneer.

Thousands have participated in a month of marches and blockades as part of a minga protest in southwest Colombia. But President Iván Duque never showed up to listen to their demands.

How looking at the roots of the Odebrecht empire helps us to understand its current crisis.

How looking at the roots of the Odebrecht empire helps us to understand its current crisis.

In Brazil, rural agricultural workers and land reform beneficiaries could be hardest hit by President Michel Temer's austerity policies. 

This winter's El Niño Costero has ravaged both Peru and Ecuador. Why have the impacts in Peru been so much more destructive?

A growing resistance to the Chepete/ El Bala megadam is challenging President Evo Morales's plan to convert Bolivia into South America's leading energy powerhouse.

Pension fund giant TIAA is investing its clients' funds in farmland and agribusinesses tied to environmental and human rights abuses in Latin America.

The focus of the summer 2016 NACLA Report on the Americas, this forum reflects on the connection between drug war violence and global capital interests as analyzed in Dawn Paley's book Drug War Capitalism. 

The Interoceanic Grand Canal is a threat to the environment and to the Nicaraguan people.

Bolivian President Evo Morales escalates the stakes in the debate over extractivism as an anti-poverty strategy.

Bolivian President Evo Morales escalates the stakes in the debate over extractivism as an anti-poverty strategy.