In Chile, millions of people are taking to the streets to demonstrate against neoliberal President Piñera. El Pueblo Unido - the song that accompanies the protests is called The United People in English. It is...
In the US the COVID pandemic results in extreme contrasts. The acute economic crisis entails 32 million unemployed and at least 27.5 million without health insurance. At the same time, it is precisely the corona...
The Amazon rainforest is threatened with collapse. If nothing is done about deforestation, a chain reaction will be set in motion that will cause the unique ecosystem to disappear forever and further fuel climate change....
At the end of April, the official number of covid deaths in Brazil surpassed 400,000. Measured by the number of inhabitants, no country in the Americas has seen more people die from infection with the...
The millions of poor in an enormously rich country can no longer bear to choose between very little and nothing. They have very little to lose. The tax reform proposal of 2021 was the straw...
The Supreme Court of Mexico has ruled that the previously introduced legal ban on the use of cannabis was unconstitutional. The Courts judge called the declaration as historic in terms of respect for human rights.
Mexico...
In Colombia, Gustavo Petro won the presidential election. The ex-guerrilla fighter is the country's first left-wing president. He thus continues the left's winning streak in Latin America. Petro wants to change Colombia profoundly. The country...
Brazil is getting a new Ministry for Indigenous Peoples, has more indigenous deputies than ever before, and is getting its first female indigenous minister with the appointment of Sônia Guajajara. Who is this woman, and...
“Watershed” agreement: Farmers, water suppliers and communities work together to protect their water sources
Ingo Geiger
In Bolivia, 24,000 farmers in cooperation with communities and public water suppliers protect more than 600,000 hectares of forest from deforestation, exploitation, and the interests of mining companies—and thus protect the regional water supply in...
Peace, environmental protection, integration – Costa Rica a model State for Latin America?
Kontrast.at
Costa Rica went its own way: without an army, but with investments in education and health, a sustainable economy and an open society, Costa Rica became a model state in Latin America.
Costa Rica is one...