Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

30.01.2008 PUCALLPA, Peru, Jan 30 (IPS) - Residents of the Amazon jungle town of Orellana in Peru have filed a complaint against a logging company for using their identity documents to commit tax fraud in illegal timber sales worth more than $200,000.

28.01.2008 Since early 2007, dozens of the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have endured near-daily attacks, land invasions, and death threats, primarily from government-endorsed paramilitary groups.

28.01.2008 An initiative "to secure the economic, social and environmental sustainability of around a million cocoa farmers and their communities in Ghana, India, Indonesia and the Caribbean" was unveiled by chocolate manufacturer Cadbury and the UN Development Programme today.
From Cadbury Schweppes

25.01.2008 The Latin American right has struggled in recent years, but is now using various means to effectively counter the policies of governments elected by the working classes, comments regional news editor Pablo Morales.

24.01.2008 The future for corals does not look bright, according to the first in-depth analysis of recent widespread coral bleaching in the Caribbean.

24.01.2008 The destruction of the Brazil's Amazon rain forest increased drastically in recent months after a two-year "breather," the government reported yesterday.
From Earth Times

23.01.2008 As the U.S. presidential primaries continue, candidates are making sure to address the oft-overshadowed foreign policy affair that is Latin America. Here is what they have to say.

23.01.2008 Approximately 2,000 Colombians, including members of indigenous groups, fled their villages over the past two weeks as militias are intensifying their armed campaigns in the rural areas, writes the UN.

16.01.2008 "In 2007, [South American] social movements confronted two new fronts: the consolidation of a second and new wave of neoliberalism...and a correlation of forces, on a regional level, in which "progressive" governments play the dominant role," comments researcher Raúl Zibechi.

16.01.2008 This March, Mexico will introduce immigration cards digitally embedded with migrants' information, a 'characteristically progressive' move that will allow hundreds of thousands of temporary workers and visitors to come and go at their will, writes Louis E. V. Nevaer.

15.01.2008 Peru will receive its first batch of XO laptops from the One Laptop per Child initiative in mid-February, despite pressure from rival company Intel to drop the order.

10.01.2008 Are think-tanks staffed by scientists a luxury that only rich nations can afford? Ehsan Masood meets the founders of four institutes that set out to help developing countries to think for themselves.
From Nature News

08.01.2008 At year's end, Bolivia found itself in the midst of a divisive political crisis that threatened to dismantle the state. Meanwhile, the course of events for 2008 remains unpredictable.

04.01.2008 'Radio Realidad,' one of many small, rurally-run radio stations springing up throughout Honduras, tackles grassroots issues such as the intrusion of mining companies, economically-driven migration, and the situation of women in rural communities.