Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment News

By La Onda Verde Chile The electricity company Colbún has denied speculation that is it planning to sell its holdings in the controversial HidroAysén hydroelectric project in Patagonia. While development […]

Tuesday June 19, 2012 Why Republicans can’t write off Hispanics (The Washington Post):  Much has been made in the last 96 hours of President Obama’s decision to stop deporting young illegal […]

By Emilio C. Sanchez, Voxxi The Senate confirmation of Mari Carmen Aponte as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador began with a bitter battle among several senators prolonged over the last six months. […]

Jose Luis Zelaya En lo que escribo esta nota las lágrimas caen de mis ojos por la felicidad de saber que podré ser maestro y que miles de estudiantes indocumentados […]

Monday June 18, 2012 Turning Hispanic numbers into political clout (The Miami Herald):  This week, the Sunshine State will play host to more than 1,200 Hispanic elected and appointed officials […]

By Texas Observer In March, a leading investigative online news journal in El Salvador, El Faro, broke the news that the government was negotiating a reduction in homicides with the […]

By Voxxi The familiar Coca-Cola bottle is as iconic as the Playboy bunny ears, the Mac apple or the three-pointed star that designates every Mercedes Benz. So when the company found that […]

(Editor’s note: This is the last of an eight part series) By Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, and Ana Arana, Fundación MEPI Chapter 8: Two Guatemalas Last August, a Guatemalan court found three former […]

By Kalyn Belsha, Voxxi Women’s participation in Mexico’s drug trade is nothing new — in fact their involvement can betraced back to the 1930s. But now, female narcos are stepping up to management […]

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde Chile In a surprise move, the Board of Directors of the energy company Colbún announced that it wants to suspend progress on HidroAysén transmission line […]