Welcome to my portfolio of news and feature articles.
I'm a journalist researching indigenous land issues, human rights and the environment. That's me in the background of the picture on the left, filming a meeting of Q'eqchi' Maya leaders from Belize and Guatemala. Click on the links below to read my articles. Bienvenidos a mi colección de noticias. Soy periodista que se encuentra investigando sobre tierras indígenas, derechos humanos y el medio ambiente. A la derecha de esta imagen, me pueden encontrar, en una reunión de líderes Mayas de Belice y Guatemala. Haga clic en los enlaces de abajo para abrir mis artículos. |
Minga and Mother Earth
Two indigenous women leaders talk to Planet |
A new Colombia is being christened in blood
Indigenous authorities and social leaders hit by spiraling political violence
Indigenous authorities and social leaders hit by spiraling political violence
An inside look at Colombia's indigenous guards
Photos and voices from the heart of a re-escalating conflict
Photos and voices from the heart of a re-escalating conflict
Presidente Santos premiado por destruir
El corredor de los jaguares, un área protegida de la región del Magdalena Medio en Colombia, está siendo amenazada y destruida
El corredor de los jaguares, un área protegida de la región del Magdalena Medio en Colombia, está siendo amenazada y destruida
Colombia's jaguar corridor 'highlights fragility of country's protected areas'
A scandal-hit development in Colombia's jaguar corridor highlights flaws in country's environmental protection laws
A scandal-hit development in Colombia's jaguar corridor highlights flaws in country's environmental protection laws
Nubes de incertidumbre
Un entramado de impunidad, corrupción y extractivismo confronta a los líderes indígenas en el suroccidente de Colombia.
Un entramado de impunidad, corrupción y extractivismo confronta a los líderes indígenas en el suroccidente de Colombia.
Clouds of Uncertainty
A web of impunity, corruption and extractivism confronts indigenous leaders in Colombia's southwest
A web of impunity, corruption and extractivism confronts indigenous leaders in Colombia's southwest
El silencio es oro (o para qué matar a Falver)
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Minas de oro y cultivos ilícitos fueron destruidos en minga
Tres minas ilegales, una planta centro de proceso de oro, y plantaciones de marihuana y coca fueron destruidas en una minga comunitaria |
Black Eagles and Black Windows
Indigenous peoples in Colombia face constant "paramilitary" aggression
Indigenous peoples in Colombia face constant "paramilitary" aggression
Aniversario de la masacre de El Nilo
Los familiares de las víctimas y supervivientes se reunieron para recordar las 20 personas asesinadas el 16 de diciembre de 1991
Los familiares de las víctimas y supervivientes se reunieron para recordar las 20 personas asesinadas el 16 de diciembre de 1991
Colombia's Riot Squad Kills Two More Indigenous Guards
Improvised explosives fired at Indigenous Guards as President vows to lift road blocks
Improvised explosives fired at Indigenous Guards as President vows to lift road blocks
The Seeds of Peace
Imprisoned Colombian indigenous leader Feliciano Valencia talks to New Internationalist
Imprisoned Colombian indigenous leader Feliciano Valencia talks to New Internationalist
Behind the Headlines: Colombia's Nasa people
Photo-essay on a community at the heart of Latin America's indigenous movement
Photo-essay on a community at the heart of Latin America's indigenous movement
Detrás de los titulares: las comunidades de los Nasa
Los Nasa se han declarado en situación de "asamblea permanente"
Los Nasa se han declarado en situación de "asamblea permanente"
Colombia: Resistance is Fatal
Interview with Nasa activist Carlos Garcia, shot in the head by Colombian riot police |
Violence as Colombia's Nasa People oppose police and paramilitaries in struggle for "liberation of Mother Earth"
Colombia's "Black Eagles" paramilitaries, riot police, and sugar |
Train journeys of Colombia
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Manu Chao, and the broken locomotives of history
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Manu Chao, and the broken locomotives of history
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Peru exploiting own failures to demarcate indigenous territory
New report links undermining indigenous land rights to violence and deforestation |
The latest drug trafficking gadget: the torpedo
One of many daily news articles produced for Colombia Reports |
Members of the Indigenous Guard killed by FARC guerrillas in Toribio, Colombia
Manuel Antonio Tumiñá Jenbuel and Daniel Coicué Julicue latest casualties of armed conflict |
A massacre of Convenience
Democracy, progress, and the disappearance of a people in the Ecuadorian Amazon |
Stolen information may derail Yasuni drilling referendum
Identity details central to oil referendum disappear in state custody
Identity details central to oil referendum disappear in state custody
Ngäbe-Buglé challenge constitutionality of land seizures, protest camps targetted by high-powered lamps
News update on Panama's Barro Blanco hydro dam
News update on Panama's Barro Blanco hydro dam
Yasuni petition reaches halfway point in bid to force referendum
Campaigners confident of gathering enough signatures to get a vote on overturning the decision to drill for oil in national park
Campaigners confident of gathering enough signatures to get a vote on overturning the decision to drill for oil in national park
Facing the New Conquistador
Indigenous Rights and Repression in Rafael Correa's Ecuador
Indigenous Rights and Repression in Rafael Correa's Ecuador
Republished in People Land Truth 2014, the best of IC
Sickness and Wealth
Pollution, governance and gold mining in the Dominican Republic (co-produced with Dominican journalist Virginia Rodríguez)
Pollution, governance and gold mining in the Dominican Republic (co-produced with Dominican journalist Virginia Rodríguez)
Colombian mining dispute highlights legislative disarray
Colombia rules against multinational company that demanded disciplining of environment officials
Colombia rules against multinational company that demanded disciplining of environment officials
The rival economics of mining in Colombia
Economist Aurelio Suarez Montoya discusses his recent book on the Colombian mining sector
Economist Aurelio Suarez Montoya discusses his recent book on the Colombian mining sector
Disputed hydro-dam sees another death in Panama
Newsflash with update on the legal context of the construction of the Barro Blanco dam
Newsflash with update on the legal context of the construction of the Barro Blanco dam
Indigenous protestor killed by masked assailants in Panama over UN-condemned dam
Onesimo Rodriguez killed following protests against Dutch and German funded hydro dam
Onesimo Rodriguez killed following protests against Dutch and German funded hydro dam
Colombia: Redeveloping the Millennium
Indigenous Colombians unveil Indigenous Millennium Development Goals
Indigenous Colombians unveil Indigenous Millennium Development Goals
Colombia: Redesarollando el Milenio
Los Indígenas revelan sus Metas de Desarrollo para el Nuevo Milenio
Los Indígenas revelan sus Metas de Desarrollo para el Nuevo Milenio
Rediscovering the half-forgotten farms of the Garifuna
Garifuna anthropologist Dr Joseph Palacio discusses his study of land ownership among the Belizean Garifuna
Garifuna anthropologist Dr Joseph Palacio discusses his study of land ownership among the Belizean Garifuna
Indigenous protests return to Panama
The Cacica General joins demonstrations against the Barro Blanco hydroelectric dam, as a UN report supports indigenous claims
The Cacica General joins demonstrations against the Barro Blanco hydroelectric dam, as a UN report supports indigenous claims
Oil drilling approved for national park in Belize
US Capital Energy given permission to drill exploratory wells in Sarstoon Temash National Park
US Capital Energy given permission to drill exploratory wells in Sarstoon Temash National Park
Republished in People Land Truth 2013, the best of IC:
El Salvador mulls total ban on mining
Human Rights Ombudsman joins calls for ban following mining companies' prosecutions of government
Human Rights Ombudsman joins calls for ban following mining companies' prosecutions of government
In the valley of the invisible
Panama's M-10 indigenous movement issues an ultimatum as one of the most culturally important Ngäbe communities is threatened by a UN-backed hydro project
Panama's M-10 indigenous movement issues an ultimatum as one of the most culturally important Ngäbe communities is threatened by a UN-backed hydro project
The struggle for Maya land, oil, and gold
Assassinations, collective punishment, and resource extraction in Maya communities of Guatemala and Belize
Assassinations, collective punishment, and resource extraction in Maya communities of Guatemala and Belize
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Oil company blamed for fire in Belize National Park
A unique ecosystem in a Ramsar-listed wetland burns down during oil company operations
A unique ecosystem in a Ramsar-listed wetland burns down during oil company operations
Belize enacts moratorium on rosewood
A ban seeks to end the biodiversity loss resulting from politics, contested land titles, and Chinese demand
A ban seeks to end the biodiversity loss resulting from politics, contested land titles, and Chinese demand
Mayan people battle oil giants as Belize's rainforests threatened
Belizean government collusion with an American oil company denying rights to Maya villagers
Belizean government collusion with an American oil company denying rights to Maya villagers
Gyda gwerin Belize dan warchae'r olew
Cwrdd â phobl y coedwigoedd glaw sy’n ceisio atal trais y cwmnïau olew
Cwrdd â phobl y coedwigoedd glaw sy’n ceisio atal trais y cwmnïau olew
The law is running out of gas in Belize
Law and money struggle for dominance as Belize's credit rating is downgraded
Law and money struggle for dominance as Belize's credit rating is downgraded
Illegal loggers using seismic trails cut by US oil firm in Belizean national park
On patrol in a national park co-managed by the Belizean Maya and Garifuna communities
On patrol in a national park co-managed by the Belizean Maya and Garifuna communities
A thorn in the side of Georgia's Rose Revolution
Interview with Georgian documentary film-maker Vakhtang Komakhidze
Interview with Georgian documentary film-maker Vakhtang Komakhidze
Native American healthcare services offer lessons as the US debates healthcare reform
A small measure of justice
Ten years on from Germany's offer of financial settlements towards Nazi-era slave labourers
Ten years on from Germany's offer of financial settlements towards Nazi-era slave labourers
Битва за грузинские СМИ
Различные гражданские организации в столице Грузии то и дело жалуются на одно и то же: нынешнее правительство жестко контролирует телевизионное вещание.
Различные гражданские организации в столице Грузии то и дело жалуются на одно и то же: нынешнее правительство жестко контролирует телевизионное вещание.