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Landless Movement protest march.
Credit: Javier Mamani.

By José Luis Alcázar

Delays in Land Reform a 'Time Bomb'

Unfinished agrarian reform has Bolivia on tenterhooks as the nation prepares for December's presidential elections. Indigenous communities demand regularization of at least 34 million hectares of farmland.

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Rio de Janeiro
Credit: Photo Stock.

By Mario Osava

The Emptying of Brazil’s Mega-Cities

Brazilian metropolises like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo are seeing their population density -- and their quality of life -- decline.

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By Humberto Márquez

Petroleum Greases the Deforestation Process

High oil prices are driving up charcoal and firewood use in Haiti, where once-extensive forests now cover less than two percent of the territory.

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