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Latin America is the Most Lethal Region in the World for Land Defenders

Avispa - 4 October, 2023

: In 2022, 80% of the assassinations of land defenders occurred in Latin America

South America

Indigenous protests in Brazil against violation of their land rights

Santiago Navarro F - 29 August, 2021

We’re conducting the biggest mobilization of our lives in Brasilia, because our future and all of humanity’s are on the line

South America

Brazil, with US SOUTHCOM, conducts military simulations near Venezuelan border

Santiago Navarro F - 21 October, 2020

Brazilian sovereignty, especially in the Amazon region, is also of interest to the United States. Top officers of the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) were present at all of the exercises ..

South America

Brazil: Indigenous People Block Highway, Protesting Covid-19, Deforestation, and Railway Construction

Santiago Navarro F - 25 August, 2020

In 2017 U.S.-based agroindustrial giant Cargill announced it would compete in the tender with a block of other U.S. and Brazilian companies.

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State Terrorism

Indigenous Council in Michoacán Denounces Threats Against Spokesperson

Sare Frabes - 2 December, 2023

Pavel Uliánov Guzmán, spokesperson for the CSIM, on the microphone. On Monday, November 27, members of the Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán (CSIM) legally denounced...

Extractivism

Industrial Activity Expands in the Isthmus of Veracruz

Aldo Santiago - 30 November, 2023

Silica sand mine in Jáltipan. Photo: Aldo Santiago As part of the project Tracing Green Capital in Mesoamerica, Avispa Midia documented the vast deployment of...

Special

Chapín Abajo: History of a Community in Resistance Against Industrial Oil Palm Cultivation

Renata Bessi - 27 November, 2023

Indigenous Maya Q’eqchi’ people are recuperating their lands despite the military presence.