Gas line nears completion; debate doesn’t

January 2000

Venezuela

Venezuela grapples with causes of deadly slides

Stunned by last month’s catastrophic mudslides and floods, Venezuela is scrambling to identify the part man played in the disaster—and how to avoid more such ......

Brazil

Despite criticism, Brazil boosts its nuclear capacity

A broad array of critics has taken aim at Brazil’s atomic energy program on economic and safety grounds as the country brings its second nuclear ......

Peru (Free Read)

Pesticide tragedy prompts legislative efforts

The Andean village of Tauccamarca, in the highlands outside Cusco, has become the focal point in a stepped-up battle against pesticide use in Peru. Last ......

Mexico

Mexico cruise-ship project hits rough water

Natalia Rodríguez Krebs recalls the look of Zihuatanejo Bay when she moved here as a girl in the early 1960s—thick coral, crystalline waters, abundant eel ......

Bolivia

Gas line nears completion; debate doesn’t

Work on a natural gas pipeline running from Bolivia to Brazil across the Chiquitano, described by conservationists as the world’s largest tropical dry forest, continues ......

Around the Region

Mexican case a first for settlements panel

The contract looked like a winner to Naucalpan, a heavily industrial community near Mexico City. A Mexican corporation whose U.S. shareholders claimed 40 years of ......

Centerpiece

Forest certification at crossroads in region

The 7,200 acres (2,914 hectares) of southern Costa Rica that make up Tropical American Tree Farms are sown with trees ranging from cocobolo and mahogany ......

Q&A

Border expert sees progress... and scary projections

Wendy Laird-Benner, U.S.-Mexico Border Coordinator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, grew up in Tucson, Arizona. She attended the University of California at Los Angeles ......

Gas line nears completion; debate doesn’t

Bolivia

Work on a natural gas pipeline running from Bolivia to Brazil across the Chiquitano, described by conservationists as the world’s largest tropical dry forest, continues apace. So does environmental opposition to the project. The builders of the 389-mile (626-km) gas line—Enron International, Shell and a Bolivian company partly owned by them, Transredes—say they’re making good progress and expect to finish in March. But opponents, led by Friends of the Earth, Amazon Watch and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), haven’t let up. They’re calling on the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) to withdraw $200 million in financing that it approved for the $570-million project last June. Friends of the Earth and Amazon Watch also are pressing for a... [Log in to read more]

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January 2000

Venezuela

Venezuela grapples with causes of deadly slides

Stunned by last month’s catastrophic mudslides and floods, Venezuela is scrambling to identify the part man played in the disaster—and how to avoid more such ......

Brazil

Despite criticism, Brazil boosts its nuclear capacity

A broad array of critics has taken aim at Brazil’s atomic energy program on economic and safety grounds as the country brings its second nuclear ......

Peru (Free Read)

Pesticide tragedy prompts legislative efforts

The Andean village of Tauccamarca, in the highlands outside Cusco, has become the focal point in a stepped-up battle against pesticide use in Peru. Last ......

Mexico

Mexico cruise-ship project hits rough water

Natalia Rodríguez Krebs recalls the look of Zihuatanejo Bay when she moved here as a girl in the early 1960s—thick coral, crystalline waters, abundant eel ......

Bolivia

Gas line nears completion; debate doesn’t

Work on a natural gas pipeline running from Bolivia to Brazil across the Chiquitano, described by conservationists as the world’s largest tropical dry forest, continues ......

Around the Region

Mexican case a first for settlements panel

The contract looked like a winner to Naucalpan, a heavily industrial community near Mexico City. A Mexican corporation whose U.S. shareholders claimed 40 years of ......

Centerpiece

Forest certification at crossroads in region

The 7,200 acres (2,914 hectares) of southern Costa Rica that make up Tropical American Tree Farms are sown with trees ranging from cocobolo and mahogany ......

Q&A

Border expert sees progress... and scary projections

Wendy Laird-Benner, U.S.-Mexico Border Coordinator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, grew up in Tucson, Arizona. She attended the University of California at Los Angeles ......