Offshoot of Bolivia-to-Brazil gas line gets loan guarantee

June 1999

Brazil

Conflicted, Brazil edges toward transgenic farming

It’s no mystery why proponents and opponents of genetically engineered crops have kept a close eye on Brazil: The South American giant ranks among the ......

Mexico (Free Read)

To bolster fresh water supplies, some communities bank on fog

Fog rolls across this Baja California fishing community like a coming tide. Early in the morning, it’s foggy. Sometimes at noon, it’s foggy. Late at ......

Venezuela

Native groups warily await historic decree

For the first time since Spaniards occupied their territories in the 16th Century, Venezuela’s indigenous communities are on the verge of gaining legal title to ......

Colombia

U.S. and Colombia forge new type of alliance

Usually, bilateral environmental agreements are government-to-government affairs. They’re reached on high and handed down for businesses, NGOs and think tanks to parse as best they ......

Mexico

Mexico sees loss in U.S. irrigation gain

Water wars along the U.S.-Mexican border are nothing new, but tension over a California canal-paving project has an unusual focus: water that seeps from the ......

Around the Region

Offshoot of Bolivia-to-Brazil gas line gets loan guarantee

U.S. officials have approved $200 million in loan guarantees for a project to pipe natural gas from Bolivia to Brazil by way of the Chiquitano, ......

Centerpiece

Flower growers fight less-than-rosy image

The accusations landed with the force of laser-guided missiles. Under the headline “Let’s not buy them anymore,” the Italian daily Il Messaggero reported that Colombian ......

Q&A

Park pioneer sees conservation paying off for region

While a biology student in the 1960s, Mario Boza of Costa Rica traveled to the United States with one of his professors and visited, among ......

Offshoot of Bolivia-to-Brazil gas line gets loan guarantee

U.S. officials have approved $200 million in loan guarantees for a project to pipe natural gas from Bolivia to Brazil by way of the Chiquitano, described by conservationists as the world’s largest intact tropical dry forest. The pipeline, a joint effort by Enron Corp., Shell International Gas and Bolivian pension and state oil workers’ funds, will run from Ipiás, Bolivia to Cuiabá in western Brazil. The $570-million project also calls for construction of Brazil’s first natural gas power plant, a 480-megawatt, combined-cycle facility. The pipeline is an offshoot of a 1,900-mile (3,000-km) natural gas line being built from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to Porto Alegre, Brazil at a cost of $2 billion. Directors of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC... [Log in to read more]

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June 1999

Brazil

Conflicted, Brazil edges toward transgenic farming

It’s no mystery why proponents and opponents of genetically engineered crops have kept a close eye on Brazil: The South American giant ranks among the ......

Mexico (Free Read)

To bolster fresh water supplies, some communities bank on fog

Fog rolls across this Baja California fishing community like a coming tide. Early in the morning, it’s foggy. Sometimes at noon, it’s foggy. Late at ......

Venezuela

Native groups warily await historic decree

For the first time since Spaniards occupied their territories in the 16th Century, Venezuela’s indigenous communities are on the verge of gaining legal title to ......

Colombia

U.S. and Colombia forge new type of alliance

Usually, bilateral environmental agreements are government-to-government affairs. They’re reached on high and handed down for businesses, NGOs and think tanks to parse as best they ......

Mexico

Mexico sees loss in U.S. irrigation gain

Water wars along the U.S.-Mexican border are nothing new, but tension over a California canal-paving project has an unusual focus: water that seeps from the ......

Around the Region

Offshoot of Bolivia-to-Brazil gas line gets loan guarantee

U.S. officials have approved $200 million in loan guarantees for a project to pipe natural gas from Bolivia to Brazil by way of the Chiquitano, ......

Centerpiece

Flower growers fight less-than-rosy image

The accusations landed with the force of laser-guided missiles. Under the headline “Let’s not buy them anymore,” the Italian daily Il Messaggero reported that Colombian ......

Q&A

Park pioneer sees conservation paying off for region

While a biology student in the 1960s, Mario Boza of Costa Rica traveled to the United States with one of his professors and visited, among ......