Oct 31, 2016 | Colombia, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean, South America
by Louise Winstanley, Programme and Advocacy Manager, ABColombia Chocó is situated between the Darién Gap on the border with Panama and the departments of Antioquia and Valle de Cauca. It is one of the planet’s hidden tropical treasures, classified as a Forest Reserve...
Sep 26, 2016 | Bolivia, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean, South America
by Elena McGrath, ILAS Stipendiary Fellow and PhD Candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison On August 26, 2016, Bolivian deputy minister of the interior Rodolfo Illanes was found beaten to death in Panduro, Bolivia, approximately 160 kilometres southeast of La Paz....
Oct 14, 2015 | Latin America, Peru
by Camilla Capasso, Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme Máxima lives in Peru, in a house by the Blue Lagoon of Celendin in the Andean region of Cajamarca. Like most campesinos of her community, Máxima and her family are subsistence farmers and herders. The...
Recent Comments