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LAB - Brazil -- rural conflict growing

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Latin America Inside Out Blog. Brazil - rural conflict growing. Published on: Tue Jul 21, 2015. Though the media in Brazil pays little attention to it, rural violence against indigenous and landless workers is on the increase. On 22 June the Guarani Indian community of Kurusu Mba in MS, which had waited for many years for the government to give them back their ancestral lands to which they are entitled under the country’s constitution, reoccupied an area. Two days later 30 armed ranchers attacked them.

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LAB - Honduras 5: the pernicious impact of mining

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Latin America Inside Out Blog. Honduras 5: the pernicious impact of mining. Published on: Fri Jul 24, 2015. Honduras is in the process of giving away almost a third of its land territory to mining companies, with a horrific impact on people and the environment. Honduras in Protest Movements protest against the selling off of the country to mining companies*. On the night of 7 July, after reinforcing the hunger strike camp, the COPINH group held an initial candle-lit vigil outside the Hotel Clarion, the M...

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LAB - Brazil -- growing concern over Tapajós river dams

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Latin America Inside Out Blog. Brazil - growing concern over Tapajós river dams. Published on: Mon Aug 3, 2015. While the press is talking about the impact of the dams on the indigenous communities downstream whose land will be flooded, little is being said about the upstream communities who also have a lot to lose. Our little boat in the calm morning. We head back to Santarém in the clear afternoon, the river around us seeming unchangeably placid. But like a great storm, the dams are. Devon Reynolds is ...

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LAB - Pope Francis thrills South America

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Pope Francis thrills South America. Published on: Thu Jul 16, 2015. Author: Bolivia Information Forum. Source: Bolivia Information Forum. Following Pope Francis's tour of South America, the BIF Bulletin provides a special edition on the significance of his visit to Bolivia. Clare Dixon contributes additional analysis of the Pope's recent encyclical, which calls for urgent action to protect our planet. Who is Francis and why these countries? The state of the Catholic Church in Bolivia. About 78% of the Bo...

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LAB - Colombia: battle over fumigation is not over

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Colombia: battle over fumigation is not over. Published on: Fri Jul 24, 2015. Source: Le Monde Diplomatique. Despite the highly publicised ban, the fumigation of coca crops with glyphosate is legal until October and, even then, it is not certain that it will end, as the government is studying 'other products'. With the US still firmly backing the continued spraying with glyphosate, it is too early to say that the battle is won. While one might imagine that such a policy, expensive in every sense, would n...

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LAB - Cochabamba Declaration

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Latin America Inside Out Blog. Author: Gori Tumi Echevarria Lopez and Raoni Valle. Published on: Wed Jul 15, 2015. The Cochabamba Declaration mobilises scientists and indigenous experts concerning the preservation of rock art and indigenous sacred places in South America. Finally, The Cochabamba Declaration, although only recently released, addresses the protection of sites with quilcas, or rock art and sacred landscapes in South America. Therefore, it is an intellectual and committed deportment with...

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LAB - Mexico's schools caught in the firing line

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Mexico's schools caught in the firing line. Published on: Wed May 6, 2015. Author: Laura Isabella Brunke. The current Mexican government’s crackdowns on narco-trafficking cartels have brought little improvement in the human rights crisis. As the drug war, declared in 2006, enters into its tenth year, murder, enforced disappearances and violent attacks on civil society have become the norm. Schools targeted by drug cartels. In September 2011 the situation in Mexican schools reached a new low when five sev...

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LAB - Ecuador -- Correa rallies his supporters

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Latin America Inside Out Blog. Ecuador - Correa rallies his supporters. Published on: Tue Jun 30, 2015. Rafael Correa of Ecuador is finding out the hard way what it means to oppose US interests in Latin America, argues Matt Kennard. Our president has done many good things, Luciano told me. For example, the education system - it has improved a 100 per cent. If you compare the education I received to the one my son is now receiving,. Ecuador’s experiment in what its supporters call the Citizens’ Revolution...

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LAB - Guatemala: the echo of pain

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Guatemala: the echo of pain. Published on: Tue Jul 28, 2015. El Eco del Dolor - The Echo of the Pain of Many. Manchester-based Armadillo Productions has launched a resource-based website,. To support their new feature-length documentary film, El Eco del Dolor The Echo of the Pain of Many. The film (reviewed for LAB below by Louise Morris) is now available on the site,. For free viewing and use. Http:/ www.elecodeldolor.com/blog/2015/3/30/bienvenidos-a-nuestro-primer-blog. This was with the view that what...

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LAB - Brazil under the PT -- where did it go wrong?

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Brazil under the PT - where did it go wrong? Published on: Tue Jul 21, 2015. Brazil: the end of the PT dream. Today Latin America Bureau (LAB) and Practical Action Publishing are publishing a Special Report, entitled. Brazil under the PT: from euphoria to despair. Which can be purchased here. Sue Branford and Jan Rocha. Authors of "Brazil under the Workers’ Party: from euphoria to despair". Allies with Brazil’s economic elite. Many of the trade unionists weakened their links with the country’s poores...