Last week 200 academics, activists, land defenders and journalists from around the hemisphere attended the Fifth Latin American Congress of Political Ecology,…

Empire and injustice are not abstract concepts – they shape our daily lives. Awareness alone won’t change that. We can read the…

The Amazon rainforest in southern Colombia stretches lush and green across the horizon, but beneath its dense canopy lies a shifting reality.…

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele had a huge (though controversial) electoral victory in February 2024. But a small, stubborn legal movement is challenging his…

Speculation of more privatisations by the Nicolás Maduro government is growing amid fears incoming United States president Donald Trump may tighten sanctions…

A tense calm reigns in Venezuela as inauguration day approaches, with two candidates vowing to be sworn in as president. Incumbent president…

The autonomous Mapuche community of Lof Rofue lies at the end of a tree-lined gravel road off the side of the highway,…

The G20 summit in Rio earlier this week offered the quite intriguing spectacle of a deeply divided world, geopolitically and geoeconomically, trying…

Uruguay is undergoing political dynamics similar to those at work in the rest of Latin America: governments swing from one party to…

Suriname is a former Dutch colony in South America, best known for the pristine Amazon forests that cover 93 percent of the…