Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

27.04.2007 The names of 100,000 slaves registered in Barbados in 1834 go online today on an ancestry-tracing website that by the end of the year will contain the names of three million slaves in 23 British colonies.
Ancestry
+ London events commemorating the anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade

20.04.2007 Uncontacted Indian tribes are threatened with extinction by oil exploration, Peru's top human rights body has warned the government.

19.04.2007 Turtles "Windy" and "Billie" have stretched their lead over "Stephanie Colburtle" in day four of the 14-day race from Costa Rica to the Galapagos Islands. The event, which you can track live online, will raise awareness and funds to help protect the leatherbacks' nesting beaches.
From: Conservation International

19.04.2007 Evidence of collusion between a Colombian security agency and paramilitary death squads in the murder of at least seven trade unionists has been submitted to the International Labour Organisation.

17.04.2007 As Brazil celebrates its national "Day of the Indian" on 19 April, a new wave of dam building in the Amazon is threatening the lives of remote tribes.

13.04.2007 The glossy packaging of Mexico City's Vanidosas -- or "conceited" -- cookies doesn't give the slightest hint that they were created by youth living on the city's streets.

11.04.2007 In Oaxaca, Mexico, a vibrant and confrontational people's movement has been protesting the commercialization and globalization of schools, land, food, and water. As soon as the strikes started, media activists responded by documenting protests and interviewing people on the street.

09.04.2007 A UK-based development organisation Womankind Worldwide has released a report - Tackling Violence against Women: A Worldwide Approach – that shares the stories, struggles, and strategies of people in Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Ghana, Peru, India and the UK who have come together to stand up for the rights of women.

08.04.2007 In 2005, foreign earnings sent back to family members in Latin America amounted to more than $53 billion, 75% of which came from senders in the United States. ACCION vice president Elisabeth Rhyne recently explained to Congress why that matters.

08.04.2007 Cattle ranching has caused soil erosion and deforestation throughout the Panama Canal Watershed, but an innovative program is helping strike a balance between the needs of communities and the environment.

04.04.2007 NEW YORK, Apr 3 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration's plans to increase biofuel imports could add to the suffering of millions of impoverished peasants in Brazil and other developing countries, food rights and environmental groups say.