In Ecuador, celebrities don’t come more celebrated than Alex Aguinaga, the country’s most widely recognized soccer star and one of its most respected citizens. So Ecuadorians ......
On Dec. 18, 2000, the city of Bogotá introduced a new bus system that it hoped would speed transit, ease gridlock and cut smog in ......
Chilean authorities have moved to apply what they call here the mano dura, or firm hand, to companies that fail to comply with industrial liquid-waste ......
Less than a month after Colombia enacted a sweeping timber-development law, President Álvaro Uribe agreed to send the measure back to Congress for revisions, bowing ......
Argentine atomic-energy authorities are negotiating with the provincial government of Mendoza in a bid to reopen South America’s largest open-air uranium mine. The federal government ......
Bolivian officials this month launched an extensive environmental audit of mining along the Pilcomayo River, including operations at the Laguna Pampa tailings pond in the ......
Facing uncontrolled logging of mahogany and other tree species, Peruvian lawmakers in 2000 took action. They approved legislation requiring timber concessionaires to file forest-management ......
In 1991, two years after Chile’s return to democracy, César Padilla co-founded the Latin American Observatory of Environmental Conflicts (Olca) in Santiago. At the time, ......
In Ecuador, celebrities don’t come more celebrated than Alex Aguinaga, the country’s most widely recognized soccer star and one of its most respected citizens. So Ecuadorians ......
On Dec. 18, 2000, the city of Bogotá introduced a new bus system that it hoped would speed transit, ease gridlock and cut smog in ......
Chilean authorities have moved to apply what they call here the mano dura, or firm hand, to companies that fail to comply with industrial liquid-waste ......
Less than a month after Colombia enacted a sweeping timber-development law, President Álvaro Uribe agreed to send the measure back to Congress for revisions, bowing ......
Argentine atomic-energy authorities are negotiating with the provincial government of Mendoza in a bid to reopen South America’s largest open-air uranium mine. The federal government ......
Bolivian officials this month launched an extensive environmental audit of mining along the Pilcomayo River, including operations at the Laguna Pampa tailings pond in the ......
Facing uncontrolled logging of mahogany and other tree species, Peruvian lawmakers in 2000 took action. They approved legislation requiring timber concessionaires to file forest-management ......
In 1991, two years after Chile’s return to democracy, César Padilla co-founded the Latin American Observatory of Environmental Conflicts (Olca) in Santiago. At the time, ......