The assassination of a Honduran environmental rights defender comes as multinational corporations use dubious legal mechanisms to hamstring Xiomara Castro’s administration.
In Patagonia, an Indigenous community’s fight against repressive mining interests mirrors struggles across the hemisphere.
The last decade saw democratization in El Salvador and brutal repression in Honduras. Suddenly, those trends appear to have reversed.
The Biden administration and other governments may make climate pledges. But often it’s indigenous-led movements who will see that they’re kept.
Many would-be migrants, like the Garifuna, would love nothing more than to stay in our homes. It’s Washington that’s making it difficult.
Americans will have to fight hard to protect their water from corporate greed. They can learn a lot from El Salvador.
In countries like Peru, extractive industries contract police to suppress Indigenous protesters and detain international observers — including me.
The Modi government’s far-right bigotry is well-known, but its equally disturbing environmental record isn’t.
Long ignored by the media, the people of Chagos struggle relentlessly to reclaim islands that the U.S. and U.K. stole for a military base.
We often debate the pros and cons of welcoming immigrants here. We seldom consider the U.S. impact on the countries they leave.