Covid-19 as a critical juncture
While this article is global in scope, LAB is publishing it because all of the many interesting issues it raises are...
Indigenous peoples: why it matters to us all if they catch...
This article was translated for LAB by Chloe Budd. You can read the original (in Spanish) here.
Main image: Raya, an old Nahua....
Brazil: MST guidance vs Bolsonaro’s irresponsibility
Brazil's president Bolsonaro has ridiculed the coronavirus crisis as being a mere flu, outraging health professionals and going against most members of his own...
Bolivia facing up to Covid-19: some achievements, some failures
Main image: La Paz, with the Illimani mountain in the background. Source: EEJCC / CC 4.0, Wikimedia.
N.B. Statistics for infection and death-rates shown in...
Nicaragua: Coffee and Covid-19
‘The pandemic will bring tremendous personal health risk to smallholder coffee farmers around the globe, but also a series of financial risks, including market...
An open and shut case – schools and Covid-19
‘What’s that huge queue for?’ I asked my friend. He simply shrugged his shoulders as we stared at the seemingly endless line of people,...
Chile: the protest movements adapt to Covid-19
This is the first of two articles with testimony from Chile’s protest movements and the impact of Covid-19.
See also our January article 'Chile's long...
Mexico’s economy battered by the virus
Mexico is in the most critical stage of the Coronavirus pandemic. As of 18 May, the government reports 49,219 infected and 5,177 dead. The...
Chile: Censored humanity
Chile's protests were thwarted when the arrival of Coronavirus forced the population to stay at home. As the impact of the quarantine takes its...
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...