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November 2023
- Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean‘Leave the gold in the ground’: Ecuador’s forest guardians mobilise against illegal mining in AmazonThe Indigenous A’i Cofán people invoke their ancestors and carry spears but also use drones, GPS mapping and the courts as they fight to protect their land from a rapacious gold rush
October 2023
- Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean‘We are alive and we are here’: Chile’s lost tribe celebrates long-awaited recognitionThe Selk’nam were almost wiped out by colonisers in the 19th century, and for years their existence was denied. Now they hope to finally claim their rights as one of Chile’s original peoples
September 2023
- Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean‘We defended our right to the land’: Brazil’s Indigenous people hail supreme court victoryThe Xokleng people of Santa Catarina state, after years of persecution, evictions and legal battles, have finally seen the rights to their ancestral lands endorsed by the state, with wide implications for other Indigenous groups