Land & Water Defense

The massacre of 20 campesinos in the Bajo Aguán Valley demonstrates the deadly consequences of their struggle against powerful landowners with ties to the recently elected far-right government.

As the country’s far-right government attempts to undo groundbreaking legislation that has protected glaciers for 15 years, activists are fighting back.

Targeted with death threats, violence, and bogus legal charges, Ch’orti’ people are still fighting to permanently close a mining project that has polluted their lands.

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The Mazatecan community of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón has been subjected to more than a decade of judicial persecution for defending their lands.

In this special issue of the NACLA Report, we critically examine the rise of green capitalism in the region in the lead-up to COP30 in Belém, Brazil in November.

A newly expanded edition of Oscar Olivera’s book revisits the grassroots uprising that defeated water privatization 25 years later, offering lessons on sovereignty, solidarity, and defense of the commons. 

The Nasa’s fight against Gran Tierra Energy reveals the links between extraction and armed conflict, and the limitations of the government’s reforms.

Giovanni Batz’s carefully researched text examines how the Ixil and K’iche’ Mayas have resisted attacks on their land, state violence, and extraction since Spanish colonization.

Through radio broadcasts and digital archives, Moskitian activists are reclaiming their history, resisting settler colonial erasure, and forging a transnational movement for sovereignty across the western Caribbean.

After the murder of their leader, communities in the Aguán Valley have continued their fight against corruption, impunity, and the pollution of their lands.

In the face of rifts over securitization issues and calls for conservation, Aris Mining intends to launch the Soto Norte mine in Santander, Colombia, in 2029.