Ngöbe-Buglé protest Panama hydropower and mining plans

February 2012

Brazil

Brazil’s ‘subsalt’ drilling raises safety questions

In late January, Brazil experienced its second offshore oil spill in three months. The spill, though small, was the first to occur in the so-called ......

Argentina

Clashes in Argentine Andes over open-pit mining

Images of riot police clashing with protestors have been largely absent from Argentine television screens and front pages since the country’s severe economic downturn and ......

Dominican Republic

Dominican lake shows surprising expansion

Lake Enriquillo, the largest lake in the Caribbean, was shrinking so rapidly in the early 2000s that many feared it would disappear entirely. But less ......

Peru

Peru acts on pair of mining controversies

Moving to resolve two mining controversies, the Peruvian government hired three experts to review an international consortium’s plans for a mine in the country’s northern ......

Paraguay (Free Read)

Surge of land-clearing in Paraguay’s Chaco

Deforestation in Paraguay’s portion of the Gran Chaco jumped 23% last year, according to Guyra Paraguay, a leading Paraguayan environmental organization. The estimate, based on an ......

Around the Region

Ngöbe-Buglé protest Panama hydropower and mining plans

The northern segment of the Inter-American Highway in Panama was closed for eight days this month when over 5,000 members of the Ngöbe-Buglé indigenous group ......

Centerpiece

Honduran project returning macaws to wild

Fifteen hundred years ago, when the Mayan capital of Copán stood at its political apex, the surrounding jungle of what is today western Honduras brimmed ......

Q&A

Lalonde on what to expect—and what not to—at Rio+20

Brice Lalonde of France is one of two executive coordinators of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development being held in Rio de Janeiro June ......

Ngöbe-Buglé protest Panama hydropower and mining plans

The northern segment of the Inter-American Highway in Panama was closed for eight days this month when over 5,000 members of the Ngöbe-Buglé indigenous group blockaded the route to protest planned hydroelectric and mining projects in and around their government-protected territory. During Feb. 2-9, members of the Ngöbe-Buglé, Panama’s largest indigenous group, burned trees and tires and denounced the government of President Ricardo Martinelli. All traffic was halted and several buses of tourists traveling north to Costa Rica were held captive by the Ngöbe-Buglé for six days. On Feb. 5, riot police and Panamanian security officials arrived in military fatigues and tried to clear protestors from the road forcibly. Demonstrators hurled rocks and bottles, and police retaliated by firing tear... [Log in to read more]

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February 2012

Brazil

Brazil’s ‘subsalt’ drilling raises safety questions

In late January, Brazil experienced its second offshore oil spill in three months. The spill, though small, was the first to occur in the so-called ......

Argentina

Clashes in Argentine Andes over open-pit mining

Images of riot police clashing with protestors have been largely absent from Argentine television screens and front pages since the country’s severe economic downturn and ......

Dominican Republic

Dominican lake shows surprising expansion

Lake Enriquillo, the largest lake in the Caribbean, was shrinking so rapidly in the early 2000s that many feared it would disappear entirely. But less ......

Peru

Peru acts on pair of mining controversies

Moving to resolve two mining controversies, the Peruvian government hired three experts to review an international consortium’s plans for a mine in the country’s northern ......

Paraguay (Free Read)

Surge of land-clearing in Paraguay’s Chaco

Deforestation in Paraguay’s portion of the Gran Chaco jumped 23% last year, according to Guyra Paraguay, a leading Paraguayan environmental organization. The estimate, based on an ......

Around the Region

Ngöbe-Buglé protest Panama hydropower and mining plans

The northern segment of the Inter-American Highway in Panama was closed for eight days this month when over 5,000 members of the Ngöbe-Buglé indigenous group ......

Centerpiece

Honduran project returning macaws to wild

Fifteen hundred years ago, when the Mayan capital of Copán stood at its political apex, the surrounding jungle of what is today western Honduras brimmed ......

Q&A

Lalonde on what to expect—and what not to—at Rio+20

Brice Lalonde of France is one of two executive coordinators of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development being held in Rio de Janeiro June ......