*NEWS*

*Thirty people are behind bars in Russia following a peaceful protest against oil drilling in the  Arctic. They took action because they know it is wrong to exploit melting ice to drill for more of the oil that is warming our world. The charges of piracy and hooliganism are extreme and disproportionate. Yet these are the charges our activists face.Amsterdam, 9 October 2013 – Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo has written to President Vladimir Putin offering to travel to Moscow as early as possible to meet with the Russian President, in an effort to end the continued incarceration of 28 peaceful activists and two freelance journalists.

*Maize under threat as Mexico fails to ban US imports   Greenpeace today marked the World Food Day by renewing its demands for an emergency ban on all US maize imports to Mexico until their purity from genetically engineered (GE) compounds can be guaranteed. The Mexican embassies in the United States, at the European Union and at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) were told by Greenpeace that the US imports were the most likely source of genetic pollution currently contaminating one of the world's most important food crops, maize, in a vital area of diversity in Mexico.  

*4 months ago, within 36 hours the Tribunal Administrativo de Antioquia issued a resolution that orders to Metroplus suspend- during 3 months - the Tunel verdes's frees logging in  Envigado.