Author: Talli Nauman

Canada’s Idle No More Indigenous Movement Sets Stage for Latin American Involvement

March 9, 2013

Idle No More (INM), started in late 2012 as an aboriginal movement to block regressive legislation threatening indigenous, territorial and treaty claims in Canada, has quickly become a worldwide vehicle for indigenous peoples’ rights and environmental complaints. By early 2013 It has attracted significant attention from Latin American quarters.

Lead Poisoning Underscores Mexico’s Need to Hasten Toxic Waste Inventory

December 13, 2012

It was 35 years ago when Amexco S.A. de C.V. began its infamous illegal dumping of lead-contaminated residues in Tijuana – 30,000 m3 of slag imported from California under what the Mexican government deemed the false pretext of car-battery recycling. By the time Mexico’s federal environmental prosecutor analyzed remediation options in 1996, the U.S. corporation Alco Pacifico Inc. had acquired the liability. Mexican law mandated the return of the hazardous waste to its country of origin.

Coastal Development Threatens Mexican Reef

August 3, 2012

Following efforts by members of civil society to protect one of Mexico’s most important coral reefs, political pressures obligated President Felipe Calderón to cancel […]

Tiempos importantes para demanda de paz a las drogas

April 17, 2012

La guerra contra las drogas de Estados Unidos en los vecinos países de América ha ido de mal en peor desde que el Plan Colombia y el Plan Cóndor comenzaron causando destrucción ambiental incalculable fumigando con herbicidas en países de la diversidad biológica de Colombia y México en la década de 1970.

High time to demand peace on drugs

April 3, 2012

The U.S. drug war on neighboring American countries has been going from bad to worse ever since Plan Colombia and Plan Condor began wreaking untold environmental destruction of herbicidal fumigation on the biologically diverse countries of Colombia and Mexico in the 1970s.

La sabiduría nativa guía el movimiento contra el oleoducto de Keystone

March 2, 2012

La marcha de la Tribu Oglala Sioux el 11 de febrero contra el oleoducto de Keystone XL mostró la medida en la que la industria multi billonaria en dólares de petróleo crudo en arenas bituminosas ha galvanizado a la oposición transfronteriza a favor de la justicia hacia la tierra.