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July 2009

Brazil

Watchdog challenges plan for huge Amazon dam

Brazil’s government has formally endorsed construction of what would be the largest hydroelectric dam in the Amazon, a US$8-10 billion, 11,183-megawatt behemoth slated for the ......

Colombia

Palm sector tends image

For nearly a decade, Colombia’s principal palm companies have tried to distance themselves from atrocities that occurred in 2001 in Colombia’s Pacific state of Chocó. ......

Brazil

Amazon land-title law draws criticism, suit

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in June signed a law aimed at formalizing land ownership in the Amazon to end land-claim chaos there ......

Peru

In Peru, pollution-prone Doe Run idles plant

The air in this gritty industrial town is relatively clean for the first time in decades, but not because long-standing pollution problems are solved. The ......

Chile (Free Read)

Moment of truth for HidroAysén dam plans

It’s crunch time for a joint venture hoping to build five large hydroelectric dams in Chile’s southern Aysén region. The joint venture, HidroAysén, is preparing to ......

Around the Region

Environment cited in Brazilian Supreme Court ruling on tires

Brazilian officials are optimistic that a recent Supreme Court ruling to uphold a ban on imports of used tires and retreads will end a dispute ......

Centerpiece

Chile learns dangers of region’s glacial melt

When Cachet 2, a five-square-kilometer (2-sq-mile) lake in the south of Chile’s Aysén region, vanished in a matter of hours on the evening of April ......

Q&A

Thus far, Cuba’s tourism seen as sustainably managed

International tourism has grown steadily in Cuba since the Sol Palmeras hotel—the product of the communist government’s first joint venture with a foreign company, Spain’s ......

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