Gold and Cocaine: A Toxic Alliance Threatening the Amazon and Its Peoples

BY TORA JENSEN FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES

The quest for gold has shaped human history for centuries, driving exploration, conquest, and exploitation. For the Spanish Crown, it was the lure of gold that propelled the second expedition to the Americas and it became a pivotal factor in the subsequent colonization of the continent. The legacy of gold mining in Latin America, however, has become a modern crisis with far-reaching consequences. The invasion of Indigenous territories by coca cultivation, trafficking routes, and illegal mining operations is provoking displacement, violence, and environmental destruction.

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An Unrelenting Contempt: Milei’s Offensive Against Indigenous Rights

BY ALEXIA CAMPOS FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES 

The government is moving to repeal the Indigenous territorial emergency law that halts evictions while it promotes bills on Indigenous consultation and communal property that require communities to obtain legal personhood to have their rights recognized. Simultaneously, it dismantles the registry that grants such status and enacts the Large investment Incentive Regime, accelerating extractivism in Indigenous territories. This triad is merciless: financial capital, territorial (de)regulation, and the suspension of legal personhood as a tool of control. What is striking is not its intent but the method: the relentless speed of its cruelty.

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Honouring Indigenous Peoples’ Perspectives of Climate Change Impacts: Research and Policy Implications

VICTORIA REYES-GARCÍA AND CONSORCIO LICCI FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS

As key actors in climate knowledge and impacts, Indigenous Peoples should have a more significant role in how the international community addresses climate change. Especially when Indigenous Peoples suffer most from forest fires, droughts affecting their food sovereignty, melting Arctic ice and rising sea levels on islands. At this point, the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in decision-making and scientific research needs to be improved.

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Creating a Cosmopolitics of Climate Change

BY ROSALYN BOLD FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS

The responses that Western society has implemented to address climate change are not sufficient. Other actors and knowledge are needed, and Indigenous Peoples' ancestral knowledge could play a central role. However, diverse voices tend to be silenced in debates in international fora. Anthropology can contribute to adopting a cosmopolitics of climate change that allows us to integrate multiple worldviews in order to understand and address the problem more holistically.

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Regeneration for Action: Indigenous Youth’s Message in Climate Change Debates

BY CAMILA ROMERO PEIRET FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS

Every year, Indigenous youth’s participation in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is becoming ever more visible. And yet, although the international community recognizes their voices and the key role they are playing in defending their rights, young people continue to face multiple barriers to their full and effective participation. Such barriers are pushing new generations to pioneer collective proposals that seek to remind the world of the urgency of regenerating the fabric in climate action and of the importance of adopting a comprehensive rights-based approach.

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