This week Latin Pulse focuses on indigenous issues in Latin America. The program discusses the controversial Belo Monte Dam under construction in Brazil and the legal cases that have failed to halt the project. The dam will have direct effects on indigenous groups and urban residents who will be displaced by flooding caused by the dam. The program also looks at the controversial practice of herbicidal spraying as a method in the Drug War and how that has caused health problems and posed other challenges for indigenous groups such as the Embera-Katio, Embera-Chami, and Awa people of Colombia. The news segment, this week, covers the oil refinery fire in Venezuela, which killed dozens of people. In-Depth Interviews:
Dr. Eve Bratman of American University, and
Gimena Sanchez of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA).
Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell
Associate Producer: Jenna Longoria
(To download or stream this podcast, click here.)
(The program is 30 minutes in length and the file size is 28 MB.)
podcast
news
Latin America
Venezuela
Hugo Chavez
oil
disaster
indigenous issues
environment
minority issues
Dilma Rousseff
Colombia
Afro-Colombians
Juan Manuel Santos
Belo Monte Dam
the Amazon
Ignacio Lula da Silva
Awa
Embera-Chami
Embera-Katio
energy
Rio+20
Drug War
herbicidal spraying
civil war
violence
Brazil
Alvaro Uribe
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