Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

23.12.2007 The US has lost ground in Latin America over the past decade, since the project to develop the Free Trade Area of the Americas flopped and since leftwing governments took power and used it with imagination and vigour, says Janette Habel.

19.12.2007 Gabriel Hetland explains that the recent referendum raises more questions than answers about Venezuelan public opinion and the future of President Hugo Chavez.

18.12.2007 Two years after Bolivia's first indigenous President, Evo Morales, set out to transform the nation, Benjamin Dangl examines public opinion as the nation's political parties feud over its future.

17.12.2007 A free trade agreement launched last week between Peru and the U.S. "fails to deliver on its development potential and could further deepen poverty for Peru's poorest," writes an international humanitarian group.

13.12.2007 The development and adoption of biofuels should be done carefully and with exhaustive research onto its effects on food security and the environment, comments Science and Development Network director David Dickson.
From: SciDevNet

11.12.2007 Peruvian President Alan García is planning to introduce a new law that promotes foreign investment by diminishing rural indigenous communities' control over communally owned lands.

10.12.2007 César Navarro, political ally of Bolivian President Evo Morales, discusses the struggle to drive through change in the South American country.
From: New Statesman

06.12.2007 The governments of Ecuador and Peru recently approved three new major oil projects threatening biodiversity and isolated indigenous groups in the Upper Amazon Basin.
From: Environment News Service

05.12.2007 After a hard fought battle filled with intimidation and retaliation from management, Mexican workers at a factory that produces name brand garments for the U.S. market have won legitimate union representation.

04.12.2007 Bolivian President Evo Morales' attempt at achieving comprehensive social reform is challenged by a militant opposition movement led by the wealthy in this highly divided and mostly poor country, comments scholar Roger Burbach.