Natural Rights: People and Environment in Latin America

As of this writing, the new Brazilian government headed by President Lula da Silva is scarcely two months old. It

Costa Rica is the poster child for ecotourism. This brand of nature-based tourism, which seeks to be low impact and

Cuban courts handed down heavy sentences of up to 28 years in the first weeks of April, after authorities arrested

In this NACLA Report we look at both growing cooperation and continuing conflict in the name of protecting Latin America’s

Mention of Peru’s rainforest conjures images of vast, trackless jungle rich in exotic plants and animals. But that image, on

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

On April 14, María Elena Foronda was awarded a Goldman Environmental Prize, one of six given each year to grassroots

The Cessna bush plane takes off from Ocosingo, where the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico slope down to the Lacandon Selva—the

The gleaming military installation rises from the patchy forests surrounding Belém, a city of one million people in Brazil’s eastern

While the world is focused on the U.S. aggression against Iraq, an invisible political conflict worsens in Guatemala. There, pro-democracy

As of this writing, the new Brazilian government headed by President Lula da Silva is scarcely two months old. It

Costa Rica is the poster child for ecotourism. This brand of nature-based tourism, which seeks to be low impact and