Mike Gatehouse

30 years since the massacre by military police of landless workers at Eldorado do Carajás, in Pará, Brazil, life remains precarious and dangerous. Pará state has seen over 1,000 murdered in the last 45 years. Impunity still reigns.

The Amazon produces vast quantities of food, yet millions still face hunger. This article examines the links between environmental justice, inequality, food sovereignty, and COP30 in Brazil, arguing that the issue is not production, but the system that governs distribution.

Yuvelis Morales Blanco is part of the Alianza Colombia Libre de Fracking (Colombia Free from Fracking Alliance), a collective that has been engaged in...

Former Sandinista student leader Irving Larios Sánchez was arrested by the Ortega-Murillo government in 2021 and spend 507 days in prison. Interviewed for LAB by Julie Cupples, he regards the Sandinista project as betrayed, replaced by a reign of terror.

In an impassioned op-ed, Venezuelan economist Victor Álvarez argues that his country should follow the example of Norway and enact legislation to create a Sovereign Wealth Fund – to protect the country’s oil and mineral revenues both from the boom and bust myopia of its own governments and the ambition of the US to use Venezuela to subsidise its own industries.

Sue Branford reviews Alex Ungrateeb Flynn's book Pathways to Utopia - Time and Transformation in the Landless Workers' Movement of Brazil.

Tony Corden reviews Katia Chornik’s book about the relationship between music, politics, memory, and human rights.

Indigenous leader Auricélia Arapiun describes the occupation of the Cargill terminal, in Pará, which forced the government to concede after 33 days, repealing the controversial decree 12.600, which provided concessions to developers hoping to turn the Tapajós, Madeira and Tocantins tributaries of the Amazon into waterways for the export of soya and the other fruits of extraction.

Debates on impunity for people convicted of heinous crimes against humanity are acquiring a new urgency in Chile, where the Senate has approved a measure which would allow convicted prisoners over the age of 70 to serve their sentences under house arrest, or have them suspended. Trials and judgements reached in Germany and Holland may provide relevant parallels.

Venezuelan poets in exile tell Piotr Kozak about their experiences of leaving their home country, their conflicted feelings towards it, and the promise and sadness of their lives abroad.