World Rainforest Movement
When we think of the countries ranging from southern Mexico to Panama, we tend to speak of Central America. That is, in our imaginary, we use that name to describe (Read More)
A war declared on peoples’ right to decide and to live Six months ago, in March of 2016, the news spread like lightning and the world shook: Murderous bullets had (Read More)
Historical, environmental, labor and economic aspects converge in the expansion of oil palm plantations in Central America. The outsourcing of production, tax exemptions, support for free trade agreements, concentration of (Read More)
Over 30 years ago, African palm came to the coastal municipalities of Tiquisate and Nueva Concepción. Both share a boundary with the Madre Vieja River, which originates high in the (Read More)
“In the constitution of this small, maritime banana republic was a forgotten section.” Cabbages and Kings, O. Henry The Garifuna people arrived on the coasts of Central America 218 years (Read More)
By MovimientoM4* Without a doubt, implementation of the extractive industries model as part of governments’ “development” option counteracts existing international and regional efforts to buffer the climate and environmental crisis. (Read More)
The Rancho Grande municipality in northern Nicaragua is facing installation of an open-pit gold mine by Canadian company B2Gold. With over 80% of the population against the mine, the Yaoska (Read More)
They are not invaders, they named this territory It was the indigenous Maya Q’eqchi communities that named this magical place in the forest, “Semuc Champey,” which in Spanish means “the (Read More)
This text is an initial attempt to understand the dynamics of development and implementation of REDD+ projects in Central America (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), by exploring patterns (Read More)
The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH, for its Spanish acronym) denounces to the national and international public the murder attempts against Tomás Gomez Membreño, General (Read More)
Ten years after construction started on the Barro Blanco hydroelectric dam in western Panama, members of the indigenous NgäbeBuglé district continue to express their rejection of this project. While the (Read More)
In recent decades, many communities have been displaced from their ancestral lands to make way for “Green Economy” mega-projects, or in the name of “nature conservation.” In Latin America there (Read More)
In December 2013, the Uruguay Free of Mega-mining Movement was formed in order to mobilize the public around the proposal to start open-pit mining in the country. They have carried (Read More)
The Climate Change Committee in El Salvador has sent respective notes to the Bonn Challenge Secretariat, the UN-REDD Secretariat, and the Forest Carbon Partnership Fund of the World Bank (FCPF), (Read More)
The high demand for palm oil is leading to the growth of African Palm plantations around the world, including in Central America. These plantations, in turn, are fuelling environmental destruction, (Read More)
In September 2015, the second phase of the US government-financed Millennium Fund project came into force (Fomileno II); this project will impact the entire coastal region of El Salvador. Communities (Read More)
