land & water defense

August 19, 2024
Florencia Pagola, Carolina Bas Lemos, Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet

From Mexico City to Montevideo, women are leading the fight to protect their communities’ water from extractive projects. 

August 15, 2024
Emma Banks

Cañaverales is the first to benefit from a new government program aimed at protecting campesino communities from industrial development, but corporate power remains a major obstacle to justice and dignity for its people.

May 23, 2024
Ann Louise Deslandes

Candidates in Mexico’s upcoming general election promise to fix water scarcity, but the problem runs deeper than the polls.

April 19, 2024
Giada Ferrucci and Pedro Cabezas

The Bukele administration’s case against five community leaders, environmental activists, and former FMLN members sparks international outcry.

December 19, 2023
Eliana Lafone and Rebecca Wilson

Kichwa activist Leo Cerda discusses the crucial role of national and global alliances in transitioning from extractive fossil fuels to greener alternatives.

Cover of "After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia" by Mareike Winchell. (University of California Press, 2022)
November 3, 2023
Carwil Bjork-James

Mareike Winchell’s ethnography of post-hacienda life in Bolivia’s Ayopaya province reveals the complex afterlives of servitude, but fails to weigh the comparative scale between deference and refusal.

October 31, 2023
Simón Rodríguez

The Dominican government's attempt to reinforce its hegemony over the border river unleashed unexpected resistance in Haiti.

September 27, 2023
Teresa Velásquez

A historic court decision suspended the long-disputed Loma Large gold mining project in Ecuador’s paramo, but the struggle continues.

August 12, 2023
Juan Cruz Ferre

Protests in northern Argentina continue against controversial constitutional reforms that criminalize protest and clear the way for lithium extraction at the expense of Indigenous rights.

August 2, 2023
Sam Klein-Markman

International mining companies arrive in Jequitinhonha Valley, promising development and provoking concerns about local compensation and water scarcity.

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