Essay: Bolivia slides towards anarchy as two bitter rivals prepare for showdown 2025 election
In an article first published on The Conversation, AMALENDU MISRA looks at the unfolding situation in Bolivia…
Indigenous Catholics: Apache Christ icon controversy sparks debate over faith practices
DEEPA BHARATH, of Associated Press, reports on the controversy surrounding the removal of a painting depicting Christ as an Apache…
Violence against Brazil’s Indigenous people unabated under Lula, report says
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Protection of Brazil’s Indigenous communities from violence by land grabbers and ranchers was “insufficient” in 2023, according to a report published on Monday, dashing hopes that the situation would improve under leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The Missionary Council for Indigenous Peoples (CIMI), an organisation of the Catholic Bishops Conference […]
Rising seas force Panama Indigenous families to leave island homes
Panama City Reuters Rising sea levels due to climate change have forced an Indigenous Guna community to leave their homes on an island off Panama’s coast that is fast disappearing. Some 300 families – 1,351 people – based in Gardi Subdug, a small Caribbean island a couple of kilometres off the Central American coastline, received […]
“Voice of a people”: Unfazed by danger and power, Guatemalan cardinal keeps up fight for migrants and the poor
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on the work of Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini…
‘Slow-motion disaster’: Panama’s Indigenous leave home as sea levels rise
The Guna people of Panama’s sinking Gardi Sugdub island are planning to move to the mainland to escape rising sea levels. ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Brazil intercepts illegal flight over Indigenous land invaded by gold miners
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters The Brazilian Air Force said on Tuesday it fired warning shots at a plane and forced it to land for violating a no-fly ban over the Yanomami Indigenous reservation where illegal gold miners have been returning despite federal efforts to keep them away. Two bursts of machine gun fire were fired during […]
Ancestral lands: Displaced Ecuador Indigenous group to go home after eight decades
Ecuador’s evicted Indigenous Siekopai community are set to return to their Amazon rainforest home, vowing to keep oil drilling at bay. ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Brazil Indigenous group’s crisis persists after 308 deaths in 2023, report says
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters The Brazilian Government’s effort to evict illegal gold miners from the Yanomami Indigenous reservation in the northern Amazon has stalled with outsiders increasingly invading the vast territory, Yanomami leaders said on Friday. The Hutukara Yanomami Association released a report on the year since President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared a humanitarian […]
Illegal mining: Gold diggers bring fresh wave of suffering to Brazil’s Yanomami
UESLEI MARCELINO, of Reuters, reports on how, a year after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared a humanitarian crisis among the Yanomami and vowed zero tolerance for illegal mining, environmental enforcers are warning that Brazil is jeopardising last year’s hard-won progress…