Mike Gatehouse

As an offshore oil prospecting ship arrives in Montevideo, Mike Gatehouse interviewed Vito Mata who has been closely involved in campaigns of protest that aim to halt seismic exploration and subsequent drilling and production. Uruguay’s ocean, fisheries and coastal communities are under threat.

Omar García Harfuch has won unprecedented popularity, bordering on adulation, for his apparent success in tackling organized crime and the drug cartels, especially in Sinaloa. Thwarted (by gender quota) in his run for mayor of Mexico City, he remains the most visible figure in the government after Claudia Sheinbaum, and could well run for president in 2030.

LAB’s Stella Horrell talks to the General Secretary of Mexico’s , Carolina Rangel Gracida, and asks: can President Claudia Sheinbaum promote substantive change via intersectional gender policy in Mexico?

Grace Livingstone, autora de America’s Backyard, analiza la revolución Chavista, cómo se equivocó, las distintas facciones políticas en la Venezuela de hoy y la...

There is absolutely no justification, says LAB, for the unilateral US military action against the sovereign state of Venezuela, leading to the abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, and their rendition to New York where they have been charged with a number of offences including drug trafficking.

LAB Partner Agencia Publica has recently launched a special investigation conducted by 17 journalism organizations from around the world—from El Salvador to Indonesia—to shed light on one of the most powerful forces shaping the world we live in: Big Tech lobbying.

President Nayib Bukele has overturned El Salvador's seven-year-old ban on metal mining (the first such ban in the world) and renewed the assault on communities which campaign against mining. The five water defenders from Santa Marta, Cabañas, now face a new trial because of their opposition to gold mining.

I am the mole that destroys the state from within.’ The phrase, uttered by Argentinian President Javier Milei describes his ultra-libertarian populist mission. Reality, particularly the economy may not agree, argues Pablo Stafanoni.

In September 2022, LAB described a new photo exhibition, created by the Brazilian photographer and film-maker Marilene Cardoso Ribeiro. Now that exhibition has come to...

Antonia Melo, a Brazilian environmental defender widely known for her work, especially in opposing the Belo Monte hydro-electric dam on the Xingu River, faces a grave health crisis. An appeal has been launched to help with her health care.