Critics say Morales’ rhetoric belied by his actions

March 2019

Costa Rica

Costa Rica unveils long-awaited zero-carbon plan

On Feb. 24, performers dressed as frogs, jaguars and tropical birds filled the Museum of Costa Rican Art in the country’s capital of San José. ......

Mexico

Vaquita porpoise’s plight becomes even more dire

The battle to save Mexico’s vaquita, the world’s smallest porpoise and most endangered cetacean, has become more desperate than ever. Experts announced in March that ......

Peru

Peru sends police, military to curb illegal mining

The Peruvian government has placed a swath of the southeastern Madre de Dios region under the control of the military and police in an effort ......

Bolivia

Critics say Morales’ rhetoric belied by his actions

In April of 2010, Bolivian President Evo Morales hosted the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, a meeting in ......

Brazil

First Climate Fund REDD+ payment goes to Brazil

The Green Climate Fund, the world’s largest financing mechanism for climate action, has chosen Brazil as the recipient of its first-ever payment under REDD+, the ......

Around the Region

Indigenous-rights leader murdered in Costa Rica

Sergio Rojas, a leader of the Bribrí people in southern Costa Rica’s Salitre indigenous territory, was under threat. He knew it, and the Costa Rican ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Mexican crocs in open due to habitat loss

Of all the wild creatures in Mexico, few stir such strong emotions as the crocodile. Those emotions, ranging from awe to dread, have been very ......

Q&A

Head of advisory panel views Doce River restoration as model

Environmental expert Yolanda Kakabadse of Ecuador chairs the Rio Doce Panel (RDP), a body formed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The ......

Critics say Morales’ rhetoric belied by his actions

Bolivia

Bolivian President Evo Morales. (Photo courtesy of United Nations)

In April of 2010, Bolivian President Evo Morales hosted the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, a meeting in which representatives of civil-society groups and governments from around the world converged on the central city of Cochabamba. Four months earlier, the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen had ended in disappointment, a consensus on limiting greenhouse-gas emission having proved elusive. In Cochabamba, Morales condemned industrialized nations for that failure and called for the rejection of capitalism, which, he said, “poisons our rivers and lakes.” The conference culminated in a call for “economic systems that are in harmony with Mother Earth,” and in the creation of an International Rights of Nature Tribunal (IRNT), a global panel that would weigh in symbolically on key environmental questions. Morales, who since 2008 had been speaking out in favor of clean energy, didn’t stop there. In... [Log in to read more]

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March 2019

Costa Rica

Costa Rica unveils long-awaited zero-carbon plan

On Feb. 24, performers dressed as frogs, jaguars and tropical birds filled the Museum of Costa Rican Art in the country’s capital of San José. ......

Mexico

Vaquita porpoise’s plight becomes even more dire

The battle to save Mexico’s vaquita, the world’s smallest porpoise and most endangered cetacean, has become more desperate than ever. Experts announced in March that ......

Peru

Peru sends police, military to curb illegal mining

The Peruvian government has placed a swath of the southeastern Madre de Dios region under the control of the military and police in an effort ......

Bolivia

Critics say Morales’ rhetoric belied by his actions

In April of 2010, Bolivian President Evo Morales hosted the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, a meeting in ......

Brazil

First Climate Fund REDD+ payment goes to Brazil

The Green Climate Fund, the world’s largest financing mechanism for climate action, has chosen Brazil as the recipient of its first-ever payment under REDD+, the ......

Around the Region

Indigenous-rights leader murdered in Costa Rica

Sergio Rojas, a leader of the Bribrí people in southern Costa Rica’s Salitre indigenous territory, was under threat. He knew it, and the Costa Rican ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Mexican crocs in open due to habitat loss

Of all the wild creatures in Mexico, few stir such strong emotions as the crocodile. Those emotions, ranging from awe to dread, have been very ......

Q&A

Head of advisory panel views Doce River restoration as model

Environmental expert Yolanda Kakabadse of Ecuador chairs the Rio Doce Panel (RDP), a body formed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The ......