The Tarahumara people from northern Mexico are struggling to survive a chronic food shortage after one of the most severe droughts ever to strike their remote homeland. They are no strangers to famine, but this time the drought has combined with freezing temperatures to force many away from their mountain communities to seek food handouts elsewhere. Their plight has prompted an outpouring of aid across Mexico.
Europe is our focus for the international press review today ahead of Monday's summit. The British, Spanish and German weigh in on the future of the Union - and what it's done for us.
Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Friday that he is scrapping a controversial plan to build a highway through an Amazon ecological reserve, after a massive protest march by indigenous people.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has offered to hold talks with indigenous protesters after they completed a grueling march from the Amazon to the capital city of La Paz in protest at plans to build a highway through their ancestral homeland.
Bolivian President Evo Morales suspended plans to build a highway through a nature preserve where thousands of Amazon Indians make their home after clashes erupted between Indians and police during a protest march on Sunday.
Bolivian police on Monday freed hundreds of Amazon Indians arrested in a protest march against the proposed construction of a highway through a nature reserve, after local residents blocked runways to prevent them from being flown away.
Police used teargas and truncheons Sunday to disperse hundreds of Amazon Indians on a months-long march to the Bolivian capital La Paz to protest against the building of a highway through a forest reserve where Indians have lived for centuries.
Guatemalans head to the polls this Sunday to choose a new president. The current frontrunner is a former general, Otto Pérez Molin, who has based his campaign mainly on security issues. Meanwhile, Rigoberta Menchu, who won the Nobel Peace Prize back in 1992, is the contest's only left-wing candidate. A Mayan by birth, she's staying to true to her priorities, fighting against the exclusion of indigenous people.
As annual UN climate change talks get underway in Cancun, ENVIRONMENT travels to Bolivia where water worries already have locals rapping their rage, and plans to protect forests are getting the thumbs down.
The French parliament voted Tuesday to return over a dozen tattooed, mummified Maori warrior heads to New Zealand, bringing years of debate over their restitution to an end.
