Tag: Canadian Business, Latin America and the Caribbean,

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador waving the flag of Mexico. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. In early February, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) proposed a package of 20 constitutional reforms. Though the entire package is unlikely to survive congressional pushback—AMLO’s MORENA party lacks a two-thirds supermajority—the proposed reforms

Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso. Photo courtesy Presidencia de la República del Ecuador/Flickr. As embattled Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso faces public disdain, struggles against potential impeachment, and foments regional divides, Ottawa is quietly negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with his extremely unpopular government. The proposed Canada-Ecuador FTA would greatly expand

Supporters of ousted Peruvian President Pedro Castillo protest his detention in Lima. Photo from Flickr. Seven weeks after Pedro Castillo was ousted as Peru’s democratically elected president, protests and blockades continue across the country. Nearly 60 protesters have been killed amid the unrest since Castillo was impeached and later arrested

Pedro Castillo, the president of Peru, speaks during a rally in Lima. Photo from Shutterstock. On July 7, 2022, Florida-based market research firm Americas Market Intelligence (AMI) released a report on “mining risk” in Latin America. The report identifies seven categories of risk to foreign investment in the countries of

Photo by Marcos Salgado It’s convenient but incorrect to simply blame the USA for Ottawa’s nefarious role in the slow motion attempted coup currently underway in Venezuela. Critics of the Liberal government’s push for regime change in Venezuela generally focus on their deference to Washington. But, Ottawa’s hostility to Caracas

Photo from report, The ‘Canada Brand’: Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America On June 15, 1841, the newly established Legislative Council of the Province of Canada — a body of twenty-four appointed lawmakers — was gathered in its chamber in Kingston. Its speaker, a businessman and nationalist named

Photo from PulitzerCenter.org An article published in Third World Quarterly in 2008 was our initiation into collaborative work on Canadian mining imperialism and the popular forms of resistance it systematically engenders in Latin America. The first seed. After a lengthy stretch of germination, this led almost a decade later to

An abandoned car amidst the ruins of the village • Photo by Senado Federal A year and counting of mud and struggle since Latin America’s worst mining disaster. Judith Marshall reports. On November 5, 2015, a tailings dam collapsed at the Samarco iron mine. The mine is a joint venture