Latin America

What's Yours Is Mine

Cyril Mychalejko reports from Ecuador on local resistance to Canadian mining operations.

Ascendant Copper Corporation Meets Resistance in Ecuador

Portraits of Strength

Moira Peters talks to artist Marlon Garcia Arriaga about his paintings and the women of Panzós, Guatemala that inspire them.

The women of Panzós

Coal Comfort

Chris Arsenault investigates what people are supporting in Colombia when they pay their power bill in New Brunswick.

What are New Brunswickers supporting when they pay their power bill?

Potable Politics

Van Ferrier wonders if water will be the issue that puts the Zapatismo into Mexico's big city politics.

Will water put the Zapatismo into Mexico's big city politics?

Uruguay implements smoking ban

World Bank gets reality check

Evo Morales, president-elect of Bolivia, inaugurated.

Doing Jack for Haiti

Derrick O'Keefe asks what it would take to compel NDP leader Jack Layton to bring up Canada's involvement in Haiti.

Bean Waiting

In the dirt floor, open fire kitchens of Guatemala, Moira Peters learns the fine art of cooking black beans.

In Guatemala black beans are prepared slowly, simply and saltily

"The Other" Way

The Zapatistas' New Direction

Give 'em the Boot!

Chris Arsenault travels to Chiapas to investigate a Zapatista owned and run boot cooperative that takes 'no-sweat' apparel to a new level.

Zapatistas and solidarity activists are taking 'non-sweat' apparel to a new level.

Nourrir la fleur ou couper la tige ?

Le système d'inscription sur les listes électorales en Haïti n'est vraiment pas destiné à plaire aux défenseurs des libertés publiques. Par Justin Podur

La démocratie en Haïti promue par le Canada

C'est à cela que ressemble la « responsabilité de protéger » ?

Justin Podur se rend à l'ambassade du Canada, un immeuble neuf et brillant avec un terrain de tennis et une piscine, construit par SNC-Lavalin.

Statut, élections et le Canada en Haïti

US Military Establishes Base in Paraguay

UpsideDownWorld's Ben Dangl investigates the how and why of the new US presence in Paraguay.

Preparations made to "spread democracy"

Is This What 'Responsibility to Protect' Looks Like?

In his first report from Haiti, Justin Podur takes a look at Canada's intervention on the ground.

Status, Elections and Canada in Haiti

Chilling Gold Fever in Guatemala

Cyril Mychalejko looks at ongoing resistance to Canada's Glamis Gold's open-pit gold mine in Guatemala

Indigenous resistance to Canada's Glamis gains momentum

Copper vs. Ecology in Junín

Stuart Schussler visits the Ecuadorian community of Junín, where Vancouver-based Ascendant Copper has met with strong local opposition.

Canadian Mining Company Preaches Development, Reaps Division in Ecuadorian Cloud Forest

After the Collapse

After the Argentinian economy collapsed, people began to work together, laying the groundwork for a new kind of democracy, says Sean Cain.

A review of Argentina: Hope in Hard Times

Bolivia on a Tightrope

Benjamin Dangl explains the ongoing struggle for control of Bolivia's natural resources and the current uprising.

The struggle for control of resources and the current crisis

Coal Front Comes to the Maritimes

Representatives of the Colombian Mineworkers' Union have a message for Maritimers, writes Stuart Neatby: stop buying blood coal.

Are assassinations lighting Atlantic Canadian homes?

Protests Against Colonization Mark Haitian Flag Day in Canada

Brazil Refuses $40 Million US for AIDS Funding

National Housewives' Union Established in Venezuela

Engineering for a Small Planet

How, exactly, does one leave an established corporate job to do something less "soul killing"? Amanda Jernigan spoke to Kim Paradis to find out.

A Conversation with Kim Paradis

30 Murdered by Rio 'Death Squad', Public Outcry Limited

Governments Ratify, Protesters Die: Two Killed as CAFTA Ratification Meets Strong Resistance in Guatemala

Textbook Treatment

15 years after Pinochet, Carey Jernigan looks at the effects of state-sponsored violence on Chilean society.

State-Sponsored Violence in Pinochet's Chile

"Heroine" of Sandinista Revolution Branded Terrorist by US State Department

Dissatisfied Protesters in Ecuador Fear President is Turning Towards Dictatorship

L'Argentine: Survivre par le Troc

Le troc est vite devenu populaire auprès des citoyens apeurés et ne pouvant plus faire confiance à un gouvernement incapable de les nourrir. Par Rim Boukhssimi