Mike Gatehouse

Folk-singer Victor Jara, murdered by Pinochet’s troops in 1973, had planned to record an album, telling the story of the 1934 massacre of peasants and Indigenous Mapuche and Pehuenche at Ránquil. He never completed the project and in the following decades repression has claimed new victims whenever the interests of large landowners were threatened.

In the second of three articles, Eva Newton explains how impunity is still operating for those responsible for the illegal kidnap, torture and disappearance of political opponents of Uruguay’s military regime in the 1970s.

Apparitions can be read as many things: a tribute to women’s sexual emancipation; a cautionary tale of the disintegration of patriarchal family structures; even a meditation on the brutality of the Catholic Church and its frenzied devotees.

LAB author and film-maker Marcos Colón travelled to Temuco to speak about listening to Indigenous knowledge. The conference listened. But Wallmapu asked whether listening...

In her the fourth post of the Amazon on the Brink series, LAB author and editor Sue Branford looks at the mounting evidence that the extent of deforestation matters: where it is greater it disrupts the natural water cycle, reducing rainfall and increasing the resulting dieback of trees.

In this three-part series, Eva Newton explains the continuing importance of political disappearances in Uruguay, a country where impunity is still operating for those responsible for the illegal kidnap, torture and disappearance of political opponents of the military regime in the 1970s.

A new wave of sanctions and escalated threats against the beleaguered people suggest that Trump will not be satisfied until the existing Cuban government is dismantled. A Venezuela-style 'take-over' looks impossible.

Cuba has weathered a series of crises since 1960, periods of siege followed by adaptation and survival, with the ever-debilitating effects of draconian US trade sanctions.. But the present crisis seems more grave, with Donald Trump seemingly intent on regime change.

In her third blog in the Amazon on the Brink series, LAB author and editor Sue Branford looks at the sharpening political divisions which...

Slow-seeing journalism is a different way of experiencing, writing about and reporting on the world. Marcos Colón, author of LAB book The Amazon in...