Ecological Contradictions of the Bolivarian Revolution by Maria Pilar Garcia Guadilla, El Libertario Venezuela is a country with a mining and extractive industry economy, whose model development has been based on the exploitation of oil and other non-renewable resources that… Read moreVENEZUELA: THE MYTH OF “ECO-SOCIALISM”
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: THE MYTH OF “ECO-SOCIALISM”Demanding Justice for Missing Migrants from Frontera NorteSur A Mexican lawmaker is demanding that government authorities pay more attention to a case of 31 missing migrants. Juan Fernándo Rocha Mier, a state legislator for the National Action Party (PAN) in… Read moreMEXICO’S OTHER DISAPPEARED
Continue ReadingMEXICO’S OTHER DISAPPEAREDFrom Copenhagen to Cochabamba to Cancún by Karah Woodward, The Indypendent TIQUIPAYA, Bolivia — Bolivian President Evo Morales spoke for many developing nations last December when he rejected the United Nation’s Copenhagen Accord as “an agreement reached between the world’s… Read moreTHE CLIMATE JUSTICE GROUNDSWELL
Continue ReadingTHE CLIMATE JUSTICE GROUNDSWELLPeasants Protest Irrigation Megaproject by Milagros Salazar, Tierramérica The Olmos megaproject, which will divert water from the Huancabamba River through a trans-Andean tunnel to desert land along Peru’s northern coast, is being presented as a catalyst for farm development, but… Read moreMURKY WATERS FLOW FROM PERUVIAN ANDES
Continue ReadingMURKY WATERS FLOW FROM PERUVIAN ANDESDid you see or hear any media coverage of the Bolivia climate summit? Do you think the event was worthy of coverage? One readers responds…
Ninety oil workers have been evacuated from a North Sea rig as engineers fight to control a huge build-up of pressure in a well that may have the potential to blow up the platform.
