Financial Times | The battle between the principle of conservation and the need for more oil has thrust the Gwich'in people in the far north of the Americas into a political battle that reaches from the Arctic to Washington and Texas.
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Financial Times Series on the 'Price of Oil' NGOs Take to Tools of Globalisation to Mobilise Resistance
Financial Times | With her backpack and duffle bag, she struggled aboard the aircraft, heading towards the cheaper seats in the rear. She inched past business travellers, who were settling in with drinks. Among them, she noted, were several World Bank staffers working on the deal she hoped to delay - the $3.7bn Chad-Cameroon pipeline.
Financial Times Series on the 'Price of Oil' Colombia Strives to Strike Oil
Financial Times | Far beneath the snow-capped peaks of the Cocuy mountains, half-concealed groups of soldiers watch a helicopter as it flies into a narrow valley.
Financial Times Series on the 'Price of Oil' Energy Groups Under Pressure from All Sides
Financial Times | Last week Premier Oil of the UK held a seminar outside Rangoon for Burmese security and legal officials on, of all things, human rights.
Colombia Strives to Strike Oil
Financial Times | Financial Times Series on the 'Price of Oil' Far beneath the snow-capped peaks of the Cocuy mountains, half-concealed groups of soldiers watch a helicopter as it flies into a narrow valley.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Oil Rigged There’s Something Slippery about the U.S. Drug War in Colombia
Resource Center of the Americas | The public face of U.S. policy toward Colombia has long been the war on drugs. Colombia, according to widely reported CIA estimates, produces 90 percent of the U.S. cocaine supply and 65 percent of U.S. heroin imports. U.S.
Colombia's Drug War Spills into Ecuador
Chicago Tribune / AFP | Lago Agrio, Ecuador - As the American-backed anti-drug offensive known as Plan Colombia pushes ahead, a rising wave of crime and violence is spilling into neighboring Ecuador.
Task Force Seeks to Help Ecuadorians Made Homeless by Colombian Rebels
AFP | Quito - Quito moved Monday to create a high-level emergency task force to address the plight of nearly 300 Ecuadorans, now "strangers in their own land," who fled their homes due to intimidation by Colombian insurgents.
A Plea for Peace
Miami Herald | I am a former governor of Choco, the most impoverished department of Colombia. In 1998, I tried to declare Choco a neutral zone, a territory of peace, free from the combat ravaging my country. Because of my work for peace, I was kidnapped by people who identified themselves as paramilitaries.
Plan Colombia Gets Off to Rocky Start Peasants Complain that They are Suffering as a U.S.-Financed Assault on Coca Begins and Their Legitimate Crops are Killed
St. Petersburg Times | The Guamuez Valley, Colombia - The largest U.S.-backed counternarcotics offensive has gotten under way in a remote corner of southern Colombia. Tens of thousands of acres of coca fields have been sprayed dead.
Colombia's Drug War Must Be Won in the U.S.
Los Angeles Times | Bogota - Here in Colombia, the new U.S. film "Traffic" comes alive with a vengeance. While the movie is based on the Mexican drug trade, the corruption, kidnappings, terror and frustration of the U.S. war on drugs are even greater here.
A Foolish Drug War
New York Times | Tolima, Colombia - Secretary of State Colin Powell recently affirmed the Bush administration's support for Plan Colombia - the plan inherited from the Clinton White House that pledged $1.3 billion to fight drugs in Colombia.
After Deadly Protests, Ecuador Rolls Back Fuel Prices
Washington Post | Quito, Ecuador - The Ecuadorian government rolled back fuel prices today to quell an Indian uprising that resulted in four deaths in 10 days of clashes between demonstrators and police and caused an estimated $300 million in damages and lost revenue.
Ecuadorian Government, Indians Sign Accord
AFP | Quito - Indian protesters were heading back to their communities triumphant Wednesday after securing a hard-fought deal in which the government backed down on a number of tough economic measures.
Ecuador, Indians to Cease Protests
Associated Press | Quito, Ecuador - Indian leaders met with Ecuador's president Wednesday and agreed to call off violent protests against government-ordered bus fare hikes and fuel subsidy cuts. Hundreds of Indians danced and sang in the streets surrounding Salesiana Polytechnic University near downtown Quito to celebrate.
Dying for Oil U'wa Leader Roberto Pérez Speaks about Indigenous Resistance to the Colombian Oil Rush
The Bay Guardian | Deep beneath the cloud forests of Colombia's northeastern highlands lie 1.4 billion barrels of crude oil, and Occidental Oil is poised to make a killing off of it. But the path to profits goes through the home of the indigenous U'wa, who, led by Roberto Pérez, are mounting fierce resistance.
Government Troops Kill Four in Clashes as Ecuadorian Indians Demand Reforms
Washington, DC - In an interview with the Washington DC-based Amazon Alliance, the President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), Mr.
Fuel Price Cuts Follow Ecuador Protests Antonio Vargas Arrives for Presidential Talks AP
BBC | Weeks of violent protests in Ecuador have forced the president to cut fuel prices in an agreement with indigenous leaders. Clashes over fuel and transport price hikes have resulted in at least four deaths and dozens more injuries in the last two weeks.
Indians, Ecuadorean Soldiers Clash
The Associated Press | Quito, Ecuador - Indians opposed to price increases for fuel and public transportation battled soldiers Monday in clashes in a jungle province that left at least four civilians dead.
ALERTA A LO QUE PASA EN ECUADOR SE VIOLENTAN GARANTIAS CIUDADANAS EN EL ECUADOR AUTORITARISMO EN EL ECUADOR POR PARTE DEL PRESIDENTE AL DECRETAR ESTADO DE EMERGENCIA ADUCIENDO QUE HAY ESTADO DE CONMOCION INTERNA
La conmoción interna la venimos soportando de los gobiernos, que nos han venido golpeando día a día la tranquilidad, la justicia, y la estabilidad de nuestros hogares, al forzar que más de dos millones han tenido que migrar a diferentes países para sostener la supervivencia de sus hijos y nuestros padres.Por otra
RIGHTS OF CITIZENS OF ECUADOR ARE VIOLATED DESPOTISM IN ECUADOR BY THE PRESIDENT UPON DECREEING A STATE OF EMERGENCY, ADDING TO THE STATE OF INTERNAL COMMOTION
The internal disruption of the government that we are being forced to endure has shaken the tranquility, the justice, and the stability of our homes daily. Under the use of force, more than two million have had to flee to different countries for the survival of their children and our elders.
Ecuador Arrests Indigenous Leader The Arrest Comes a Day After Violent Clashes with Police
BBC | Police in Ecuador have arrested indigenous Indian leader Antonio Vargas as mass protests against government austerity measures continue to gather pace.
Roads to Ruin for Amazon Easier Access Accelerating Destruction of Tropical Rain Forest, U.S.-Brazil Study Shows
San Francisco Chronicle | Rio De Janiero - A $45 billion federal government program to build highways, hydroelectric dams, railroads and other huge projects in the Amazon River Basin could leave as little as 5 percent of the world's greatest tropical rain forest in its pristine state by the year 2020, a U.S.-Brazilian study concluded.
Death Sentence for the Amazon Scientists Say $40 Billion Project is Set to Destroy 95 Per Cent of Rainforest by 2020
Independent Digital | The most detailed investigation of the fate of the world's greatest tropical rainforest estimates that as little as 5per cent of the Amazon may remain in its pristine, wild state by 2020.