International Environmental Law: A Promise for Corporate Accountability?

Indigenous communities in Latin America have suffered an especially oppressive history of dispossession and exploitation. Only the source of oppression has changed: if ‘indios’ were once enslaved to ‘latifundistas’, they are still today mistreated and kept from their own subsistence by multinational companies (MNCs). We have entered an era of ‘natural resource wars’, fueled by … Continue reading →