Ecuador’s Sarayaku: first the floods, now the plague
Main image: Sarayaku under water during the flooding of the Bobonaza River. The community of Sarayaku lost 30 houses, 7 bridges and plantations of...
Lula and Alberto Fernández in discussion
The Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires organized a virtual dialogue 'Thinking about Latin America After the Pandemic' on Friday...
Brazil: “We’re on a precipice”
For the university professor João Cezar de Castro Rocha, Bolsonaro and his followers are defined by a revanchist and revisionist vision of Brazilian history....
A bad week for Bolsonaro
21 June 2020. It would be an understatement to say this has been a bad week for Bolsonaro. In fact it has been disastrous....
Ecuador: Indigenous women on the frontline
In response to the Covid-19 crisis, and the risks it entails for Amazonian communities, Osprey Orielle Lake of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, based in California, hosted two ‘Indigenous Women on the Frontlines’ webinars with Indigenous women speakers from North and South America.
Virus toll of indigenous elders is destroying history
COVID-19 kills the elderly, those with underlying health conditions, the poor and vulnerable. It is now doing so in the Brazilian Amazon where the...
Jujuy, Argentina: the whole country is watching us
As large parts of the country remain in lockdown, Argentina’s northernmost province, Jujuy, has all but ended its quarantine amid harsh restrictions on freedoms.
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Colombia: Duque fails to convince as virus takes hold
Every day at 5pm, give or take half an hour, the figures detailing the numbers of fatalities, recoveries and new cases of Covd-19 become...
Guatemala: the void left by empty classrooms
Sunset over Guatemala City marks another day of widening inequality and increasing despair as Covid-19 cases continue to rise. With the country’s informal economy...
The pandemic of disinformation in Latin America
Both the United Nations and World Health Organization have labelled the spread of disinformation during the coronavirus crisis as an ‘infodemic.’ ‘We have faced...