Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

30.06.2009 Peru's government has given the green light to an Anglo-French company to drill for oil in the Amazon, just two weeks after more than 30 people died in protests against the exploitation of the rainforest.

25.06.2009 Joe Berlinger describes making Crude as “heartbreaking and inspiring”. That will surely also be the verdict of most viewers.

19.06.2009 An eyewitness account of the killings in Peru which caused shockwaves around the world has been published by Survival International. The report contains shocking photos by two Belgians, Marijke Deleu and Thomas Quirynen, who were caught up in the violence and were themselves shot at.
+ OneWorld Guide to Peru

17.06.2009 Senior figures in Peru are clamping down on both Peruvian and foreign NGOs in the wake of the violent protests which erupted in the country earlier this month.

10.06.2009 As protests by indigenous peoples continue in Peru, their leader, Alberto Pizango, took refuge at the Nicaraguan embassy in Lima.

08.06.2009 Oil companies operating in the Peruvian Amazon have been urged to suspend operations as the country comes to terms with the worst political violence since the Shining Path insurgency in the 1980s.
+ '27 dead' as blockade broken up by authorities
+ OneWorld Guide to Peru

03.06.2009 Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been asked to take decisive action to create new protected areas in the Amazon and Para regions.

01.06.2009 Major fashion, food and sports brand names are unwittingly driving the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, claims a new report.