The closing down of a community radio station in eastern Paraguay is the latest example of political repression in the country with the most unequal land distribution in Latin America, writes Toby Hill, and in which the media are dominated by a tiny elite of the super-rich. As small farmers begin to reclaim the land that is rightfully theirs, landowners and the state they control are striking back.
… Amid corruption, poverty and violence, Paraguay's rural poor fight for land and freedom Toby Hill | 27th May 2016 News Paraguay South America The Land Farming Society Politics paraguay-cut.jpg The closing down of a …
The unfolding human and ecological disaster of GM agriculture in the Americas must send the EU a powerful message, writes Helena Paul. We don't want it here, and we should stop buying the products of GM-driven genocide and ecocide abroad.
… were first launched in 1996. Argentina and Paraguay The cultivation of herbicide tolerant … planted (7th February 2014) of 20,350,000 ha. Paraguay has suffered similarly devastating … environment. Forest loss in Argentina and ParaguayParaguay has lost nearly a million …
Full credit to Peru for creating the Sierra del Divisor national park in one of the most precious areas of the Amazon, write Lewis Evans & Sarina Kidd. But not for leaving it open to oil drilling, risking the future of uncontacted indigenous tribes that depend on their pristine rainforest environment to survive.
… Sarina Kidd is the campaigner for Peru and Paraguay at Survival International. …