Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

19.11.2009 Guyana is set to become the first country to sign up for the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility - and become a test case for REDD, the forest forest component of the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month. Bow how good is the Guyana project? President Jagdeo, NGOs and journalists discuss the pros and cons.

19.11.2009 Raúl Castro's government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores more political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule to languish in detention, says a new report.

12.11.2009 About 200 million under-fives in developing countries suffer from stunted growth, says a UN report.

11.11.2009 In a striking example of successful community-based advocacy, a survivor of Peru's "dirty war" against terrorism has won election as the first mayor of Putis, a village that suffered one of the country's worst-ever massacres.

10.11.2009 The Peruvian government’s unprecedented attempt to destroy Peru’s Amazon Indian movement has been condemned by indigenous leaders around the world.

09.11.2009 The only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is having its forest rapidly and illegally bulldozed by ranchers who want their land to graze cattle for beef.

06.11.2009 Ways of using DNA barcoding on issues ranging from protecting health to prosecuting smugglers of bushmeat, endangered birds and plants are to be discussed at an international meeting in Mexico.

04.11.2009 Bolivia will be battered on five fronts by climate change, according to a new report that underlines what is at stake at UN climate talks in Barcelona and an EU–US Summit in Washington today.