ReColonization and Resistance in Central America.

CATAPA presents - from February 14th until March 15th  - DocuLatino IV, a Latin American documentary festival. This edition puts forward the problems of the gold mining and oil industry.

While big transnational corporations make lots of profits, countries in the Souts are left with a huge social and ecological mess. Local ecosystems are devastated, rural communities lose their farmland, toxic products poison the drinking water for years. The consequences are desastrous, and often irreversible. 

Lyuba Zarsky: Environmental and health effects are a violation of human rights

Ontdek de culturele diversiteit van Latijns-Amerika. Proef typische gerechten en dranken uit alle hoeken van het enorme continent. Sla je benen los op hedendaagse salsamuziek en folkoristische andes-ritmes of ga zelf aan de slag met traditionele muziekinstrumenten. Een tentoonstelling van Jorge Paniura over het leven in de Peruaanse Andes neemt je mee naar de mooie kant van het continent. Info over de negatieve gevolgen van mijnbouw toont de soms pijnlijke keerzijde.

(Ottawa) Effective September 19th, Goldcorp has been removed from the Dow Jones North America Sustainability Index. The announcement comes in the context of ongoing allegations of human rights violations and evidence of environmental contamination in communities affected by Goldcorp’s mining activities.