The Caribbean After the Hurricanes: What Path for Recovery?
By Daniel P. Erikson* Residents and volunteers begin clearing debris from Hurricane Irma on St. Maarten. / NLRC / Flickr / Creative Commons This fall’s historically fierce hurricane season reminds us...
View ArticleSouthern Cone: Rapid Transition to Non-Conventional Renewable Energy
By Thomas Andrew O’Keefe* Edificio Alexander, a building in Punta del Este, Uruguay, that produces wind energy on its roof. / Jimmy Baikovicius / Flickr / Creative Commons South America’s Southern Cone...
View ArticleColombia: Ready to Expand Environmental Policies
By Luis Gilberto Murillo* Jardín, Colombia by Pedro Szekely / Flickr / Creative Commons Colombia has provided important leadership in implementing integrated, pro-environment taxes in the country, but...
View ArticleHurricane Dorian: Silver Lining for Caribbean Unity?
By Wazim Mowla* CBP AMO agents deliver food and water to severely damaged Fox Town on the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas, in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian Sept. 6 2019 / Wikimedia / Public domain /...
View ArticleLatin America: Grappling with Environmental Displacement
Honduran Refugee Caravan/ October 21, 2018/ Flickr/ Creative Commons/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/boyitchy/31600503428/ By Robert Albro* Latin America and its faith-based organizations, seeking to...
View ArticleLaudato Si: Support for the Indigenous of the Amazon Benefits Us All
By Birgit Weiler* Members of the Awajún community mobilize in Peru. / Andina Archivo / Creative Commons Issuing his Laudato Si encyclical in 2015, Pope Francis put himself on the side of Latin...
View ArticleU.S.-Latin America: Lack of Vision from Washington Didn’t Start with Trump
By Thomas Andrew O’Keefe* The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) hosted representatives from China in late January 2018. / Cancillería del Ecuador / Flickr / Creative Commons U.S....
View ArticleHonduras: Narcotics Trade Accelerating Deforestation
By Luis Noé-Bustamente* Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve in Honduras. / UNESCO / Wikimedia / Creative Commons The rapid increase in deforestation in Honduras is being driven to a significant degree by the...
View ArticleLatin America: The Need to Face the Dire Impact of Climate Change
By Fernanda de Salles Cavedon-Capdeville and Erika Pires Ramos* A farmer works a field in Nicaragua, one of the Central American countries experiencing increasing drought over the last two decades/...
View ArticleLessons Learned from Last Century’s Climate Change Migration
By Elizabeth Keyes* Left: Migrant Workers in California, 1935/ Dorothea Lange/ U.S. Library of Congress/ Wikimedia Commons (modified)// Right: Central American migrants find quarter in southern Mexico/...
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