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Post-Coup Politics: Throwing open the Amazon to Private Tenancy

September 28, 2017November 21, 2019 COHA 462 ViewsAmazon, Brazil, Brazil Unit, Environment, Maria Rodriguez-Dominguez, Michel Temer 12 min read

By Maria Rodriguez-Dominguez, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs To download a PDF of this article, click here.

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Deforestation in Peru: Building a dramatic future in the Amazon and the Andean Region

September 28, 2015October 28, 2015 COHA 389 ViewsAIDESEP, Amazon, BNDES, Brazil, CIFOR, Clément Doleac, DAR, deforestation, IIRSA, Ollanta Humala, Peru, RRI, SERNANP, WHO, WRI 28 min read

By: Clément Doleac, Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs Since the election of President Ollanta Humala in Peru in

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The Twin Ocean Project: South America’s Transcontinental Railroad

June 11, 2015June 24, 2015 COHA 224 ViewsAmazon, Amazon Watch, amazonwatch, Brazil, China, chinese, Investment, Ocean, Peru, Railroad, Thomas David Alvarez, Transcontinental, Twin 10 min read

By: Thomas David Alvarez, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs Para leer este artículo en español, pulse aquí. The

David and Goliath in the Amazon

June 1, 2015June 17, 2015 COHA 210 ViewsAmazon, Amazon Watch, Brittney Figueroa, Chevron, Ecuador, Environment, Lawsuit, oil 9 min read

By: Brittney Figueroa, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs In his humble wooden home in the Ecuadorian Amazon,

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An End to Corporate Impunity: Making Chevron Accountable for Environmental Disaster

November 7, 2012November 7, 2012 COHA 247 ViewsAmazon, Chevron, CONAIE, Contamination, Ecuador, Environment, Human Rights, indigenous, Jade Vasquez, multinational corporations, oil, pollution, rain forest, Texaco 12 min read

At an October 5 conference hosted by the nonprofit, Resources for the Future, economist Joseph E. Stiglitz stated, “We now

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Brazilian Environmental Policy: Talk or Action?

June 21, 2012June 25, 2012 COHA 136 ViewsAmazon, deforestation, Dilma Rousseff, Forestry Code, green economics 2 min read

After several years of deliberation amongst environmental organizations and agricultural lobbyists, on April 25 the Brazilian National Congress approved the