Latin America

By Various Artists

Filed in: Brazil

Pregnant women from indigenous communities face multiple layers of discrimination. As leaders gather in New York to discuss progress on the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, Cheryl Gallagher explains why statistics only tell half the story.

Filed in: Children Guatemala Indigenous Peoples Nicaragua Peru Reproductive Rights Women

Canadian ambassador to Guatemala guilty of slander

Filed in: Guatemala Mining

Canadian ambassador to Guatemala guilty of slander

Filed in: Canada Guatemala

Roxana Olivera looks at local opposition to foreign mining companies in Ecuador.

Filed in: Ecuador

While the world focuses on its catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is also coming under fire from Colombian workers

Filed in: Colombia

After Copenhagen’s dismal failure, social movements from all over the world gathered in Bolivia – here’s what happened.

Filed in: Bolivia Climate Change

Judgment expected soon on historic environmental lawsuit

Filed in: Ecuador

People from the Ecuadorian rainforest tell Fabrício Guamán what they think of their Government’s proposal to leave petroleum in the ground.

Filed in: Ecuador Oil

These are tough times for farmers in Argentina as Jaime Jacques discovers.

Filed in: Argentina

It was the meddling British who used their cartographic skills to delineate the country that would become Uruguay in the early 19th century, as a buffer zone between the two regional giants, Argentina and Brazil. The result was a country stuck in the shado

Filed in: Uruguay