Mike Gatehouse

LAB 's new book 'Women Resisting Violence' publshed, with one chapter available to Patrons to read. News from Brazil as an uneasy transition proceeds with Bolsonaro supporters still active, angry and dangerous.

LAB's environmental defenders series is expanded with new articles on Guatemala and Mexico. Worrying news about oppression in Nicaragua. Sobering lessons for the left from the first round of Brazil's elections.

Chilean voters decisively rejected the new draft constitution, throwing into doubt the whole progress towards reform and advance that emerged from the decision to draw up the draft, and the election of Gabriel Boric. Meanwhile in Brazil, Lula leads the polls.

Lula has won the Brazilian presidential election, gaining an agonizingly slim majority (50.9%) in the second round run-off on Sunday 30 October

'Free trade and investment agreements are tools for the “deviation of power” away from communities and into corporate boardrooms. This is what the experience of people in Mexico teaches us.' This is the conclusion of a new report by GRAIN, a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.

An urgent declaration by the Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, highlighting what is at stake in the Brazilian presidential elections

Murders of indigenous leaders in Peru continue, despite government promises to improve protections. Those who seek to defend their land and protect the local environment are targeted by illegal loggers, miners and drug traffickers.

A webinar about ways of teaching nad learning about the future of the Amazon, held in the Cabelo Seco community, Marabá, Pará, Brazil

Environmental Defenders series, Listening to Women Resisting Violence, Crossed Off the Map - Travels in Bolivia, Solidarity with Latin America conference and new books from LAB authors.

Sr Pamela Hussey, for more than 40 years a campaigner for Peace and Justice, especially in El Salvador, has died at the age of 99. Many LAB supporters remember her with affection and respect.