Full Coverage: South America

26.01.2007 Colombia has resumed spraying to destroy coca plants allegedly grown in the region that borders Ecuador. But the U.S.-funded operation seems to be causing a lot of collateral damage.

14.01.2007 Uncontrolled gold mining has devastated environments and communities in Colombia's rain forests. But a new certification program is helping local communities start to have a say in how mining is developed around them.

14.01.2007 Upset about the slow pace of legal proceedings brought against late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, local human rights activists hope Chilean courts will act more swiftly in bringing justice to Alberto Fujimori, the authoritarian former president of Peru who is in exile in Chile.

11.01.2007 A coalition of indigenous farmers in South America will today launch an international protest against the multinational corporation Syngenta, claiming that its plans threaten their region's biodiversity, culture and food sovereignty.

10.01.2007 Tuberculosis, malnutrition, and the devastation of wars in the Central African Republic, Sri Lanka, and the Congo are profoundly affecting millions of people yet remain almost invisible in the U.S. media, says Médecins Sans Frontières.

08.01.2007 Bolivia's indigenous president has also become the face of those struggling for a more equitable distribution of the world's resources.

02.01.2007 from Sydney Morning Herald:
Global warming could transform the Amazon into a grassy savanna before the end of the century.