Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

17.03.2009 About 2,000 indigenous Embera people have been displaced this month from their collective territories along Colombia's Baudó River as a result of threats and conflict between two illegal armed groups, according to the UN refugee agency.

11.03.2009 Almost 100 people on the Caribbean island of Dominica are centenarians, many more are in their nineties and most are women. Gabrielle Le Roux’s Living Ancestors’ display celebrates their remarkable lives and suggests reasons for their staying power.

09.03.2009 The French company tipped to transform Peru’s economy is having its income from oil revenues frozen in neighbouring Ecuador, it has been announced.