In drug war, environment takes a pounding

September 2000

U.S.-Mexico

Development bank’s loan plans irk border experts

The development bank charged with funding environmental infrastructure projects along the U.S.-Mexican border is drawing heavy fire for trying to change the mission spelled out ......

Colombia (Free Read)

Rebel roads said to endanger the Macarena region

As bulldozers rev their engines, howler monkeys and macaws retreat into the thick forest canopy. They are not the only ones alarmed. Environmentalists say the ......

Trade

Metalclad, Mexico feel little solace in ruling

You’d figure Grant Kesler, the CEO of Metalclad Corp. of Newport Beach, California, would be feeling victorious. On Aug. 30 an international tribunal ruled that ......

Brazil

Wildlife nurseries draw scrutiny in Brazil

A soothing shot of maracujá juice. That’s what organizers said they wanted to serve to riled-up participants at a workshop here on wildlife contraband. Fraying nerves ......

Panama

Support builds for Bay of Panama cleanup

Popular legend has it that the vast Bay of Panama was named for its abundant marine life—“Panama” is said to have meant “many fish” in ......

Around the Region

Venezuela plans water conservation program

Venezuela is a country of huge rivers, vast lakes and so much water that hydroelectric power has become a major industry. Yet the country faces a ......

Centerpiece

In drug war, environment takes a pounding

Manuel Burbano, 47, remembers being at the bottom of the barrel. As a child, he was so hungry his skin “flared like a lamp from ......

Q&A

Environmentalist occupies mayor’s office... as mayor

Juan Carlos Navarro, Panama City’s 38-year-old mayor, was formerly director of Panama’s largest environmental group, the National Association for the Conservation of Nature (Ancon), which ......

Centerpiece

In drug war, environment takes a pounding

Colombia

Manuel Burbano, 47, remembers being at the bottom of the barrel. As a child, he was so hungry his skin “flared like a lamp from anemia,” he recalls. At 30, he watched his children slave away just to make ends meet on the family’s small sugarcane plantation and cattle ranch. Then in the 1980s, coca began to sprout up near his home in Puerto Asís county in the southern state of Putumayo. Burbano planted 25 acres (10 hectares). “I finally could pay the schooling and medical care for my kids for the first time with that money,” he recalls. But the cost of fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides soared in the late-90s. Prices for coca stagnated and profits evaporated. Fighting between Marxist guerrillas of the... [Log in to read more]

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September 2000

U.S.-Mexico

Development bank’s loan plans irk border experts

The development bank charged with funding environmental infrastructure projects along the U.S.-Mexican border is drawing heavy fire for trying to change the mission spelled out ......

Colombia (Free Read)

Rebel roads said to endanger the Macarena region

As bulldozers rev their engines, howler monkeys and macaws retreat into the thick forest canopy. They are not the only ones alarmed. Environmentalists say the ......

Trade

Metalclad, Mexico feel little solace in ruling

You’d figure Grant Kesler, the CEO of Metalclad Corp. of Newport Beach, California, would be feeling victorious. On Aug. 30 an international tribunal ruled that ......

Brazil

Wildlife nurseries draw scrutiny in Brazil

A soothing shot of maracujá juice. That’s what organizers said they wanted to serve to riled-up participants at a workshop here on wildlife contraband. Fraying nerves ......

Panama

Support builds for Bay of Panama cleanup

Popular legend has it that the vast Bay of Panama was named for its abundant marine life—“Panama” is said to have meant “many fish” in ......

Around the Region

Venezuela plans water conservation program

Venezuela is a country of huge rivers, vast lakes and so much water that hydroelectric power has become a major industry. Yet the country faces a ......

Centerpiece

In drug war, environment takes a pounding

Manuel Burbano, 47, remembers being at the bottom of the barrel. As a child, he was so hungry his skin “flared like a lamp from ......

Q&A

Environmentalist occupies mayor’s office... as mayor

Juan Carlos Navarro, Panama City’s 38-year-old mayor, was formerly director of Panama’s largest environmental group, the National Association for the Conservation of Nature (Ancon), which ......