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Despite Indigenous Resistance, Mexico Authorizes Mining Concessions in Protected Areas 

Almost half a million hectares in Mexico's most biodiverse region are slated for mining.

La Encrucijada’s Dilemma: The Greenwashing of Oil Palm

Oil palm cultivation expands into protected areas in Chiapas with 17,300 acres that the government and companies intend to legalize

The false myth of clean energy in Latin America

which promote initiatives that exacerbate dispossession at the global level. With these arguments, echoed by NGOs

The former School of the Americas in the U.S. has trained 4,211 Bolivian soldiers

The military figure who took the reins of this South American country did not emerge from nowhere. Commander Kaliman Romero, like thousands of other Latin American soldiers who have been trained in U.S. military doctrine, is an alumnus of the "Strategy and Defense Politics" course in the former School of the Americas.

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