Full Coverage: South America

30.06.2007 In Brazil, environmental technocrats talk of saving the rainforest with satellite technology - but loggers, miners and farmers keep finding scams to evade the law, report Sue Branford and Jan Rocha.

27.06.2007 Kirkon Ulkomaanapu ja Diakonia tekevät mielenterveystyötä Perun Andeilla ja rohkaisevat ihmisiä puhumaan ääneen vaikeistakin aiheista. ”Nyt voin kertoa asioista ja minua kuunnellaan”, sanoo moni alueen ihmisistä.

25.06.2007 Manuel Rojas and 24 other workers took the helm when executives shut down the ceramic factory where he had worked for 35 years. The seven years since have been difficult, but rewarding.

25.06.2007 Vaikka kokan viljely on vähentynyt Kolumbiassa, Perussa ja Boliviassa, tarvitsevat maat yhä apua huumeidenvastaisessa kamppailussa, sanotaan YK:n huumeiden ja rikollisuuden torjunnasta vastaavan järjestön uudessa raportissa.

21.06.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jun 21 (OneWorld) - The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to take what advocates are calling a historic vote this week to close the largest U.S. military training ground for soldiers from Central and South America.

20.06.2007 Nearly 20,000 members of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement marched through the streets of Brasilia last week to hold Lula and his government accountable for "impeding agrarian reform."

14.06.2007 SANTIAGO, Jun 14 (IPS) - Human rights groups in Chile described General Raul Iturriaga Neumann as "cowardly" for fleeing the justice system, which sentenced him to five years in prison for the 1974 forced disappearance of a leftwing activist.

14.06.2007 The violent targeting of Colombia’s indigenous communities “are truly acts of genocide,” a UN official has said. The United States has the power and responsibility to step in, says a leading U.S.-based non-profit.

13.06.2007 Yhdysvaltalaisen Oxyn öljynporaukset uhkaavat achuar-alkuperäiskansan olemassaoloa Perun Amazonilla. EarthRights International - järjestön mukaan yhtiön 30 vuotinen toiminta on saastuttanut pahoin ympäristöä ja aiheuttanut vakavia terveysongelmia alueella asuville achuareille.

05.06.2007 It has been seven years since Ecuador's Sarayaku community began fighting an information war with the oil company CGC to keep control of their territories.

05.06.2007 Indigenous peoples and NGOs have met in the Amazon town of Altamira in Brazil to discuss their concerns about a series of hydroelectric dams planned for the Xingu river, one of the Amazon's main tributaries.
From Survival

01.06.2007 A remote Amazonian tribe are blockading a major highway in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso in protest at a series of hydroelectric dams that will destroy their vital fishing grounds.
From Survival International