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In the same way as other resources, forest territories are being grabbed. Companies, often with the support of States, degrade these territories and deprive local people of their homes or resources on which their living conditions depend.
In Peru, droughts give way to floods as climate change looms
Date: 2 February 2017
Source: Reuters
Severe droughts gripping Peru have given way to some of the country's most devastating downpours in decades, catching authorities off guard as they scramble to contain the kind of floods that climate change is expected to make more frequent.
How Colombia plans to eradicate 50K hectares of coca this year
By: Adriaan Alsema
Date: 3 February 2017
Source: Colombia Reports
If it were up to the Colombian government, it will get rid of 75% of all the country’s coca, the plant to produce cocaine. Some 50,000 hectares are supposed to be eradicated in the country’s most ambitious counter-narcotics operations ever.
In total, the government wants to remove 100,000 hectares of coca, Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas told newspaper El Tiempo last month.
About 300 rebels from Colombia's FARC have not demobilized, general says
By: Luis Jaime Acosta
Date: 5 February 2017
Source: Reuters
Around 300 fighters from Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels will not demobilize under a peace deal, a military commander said, giving the first official figure of guerrillas who may join with crime gangs seeking control of lucrative rebel drug territory.
New Administration, Age-Old Battle: Native American Rights Under Obama and Trump
By: Ahmed Elbenni
Date: 4 February 2017
Source: The Yale Politic
And so began a new chapter in the tug-of-war between one president’s legacy and another’s plan, part of the ongoing struggle for Native rights despite government-induced marginalization.
Comisión Mujer Paraguaya denuncia atropello en Puente Kyha
Fecha: 1 de febrero 2017
Fuente: Ultimahora.com
Angustia y preocupación rodea a las mujeres, cabezas de familia de la comunidad San Juan de Puente Kyha, en el departamento de Canindeyú, donde en medio de una incertidumbre e inseguridad total dicen estar soportando todo tipo de atropellos, señalando como causantes de la situación a los colonos brasileros que se han auto adjudicado los títulos de propiedad de sus tierras.
Bolivia’s Disappearing Lake
By: Linda Farthing
Date: 1 February 2017
Source: Earth Island Journal
As Lake Poopó vanishes, depleted by water diversions and warming temperatures, it leaves behind an uncertain future for Indigenous Urus