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David Lehmann is a senior editor at LAB. A social scientist who has worked all his life on and in Latin America, he writes on subjects including agricultural development, religion and multiculturalism. He has worked in Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and Brazil and has accumulated a wide-ranging knowledge of peoples, histories and ideas over several decades. He is a former director of the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Brazil: The remarkable expansion of the Evangelical Churches Part Two

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David Lehmann continues with his reflections on the evangélicos, looking now at how the old stereotypes have become obsolete. The second of two blogs.

Brazil: The remarkable expansion of the Evangelical Churches Part One

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As the evangelical churches have grown, so they have become more professional and more diversified. This is is what David Lehmann found in his recent visits to the churches. The first of two blogs.

Chile: Memoria, 40 years on

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LAB Council member David Lehmann, after a visit to Santiago's Museo de La Memoria, is perplexed to find that support for the violence perpetrated by the Pinochet dictatorship is still acceptable and tolerated.

Hora Chilena: Chilean refugees in Cambridge in a Britain at ease...

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A documentary film about Chilean Refugees in Cambridge, England, prompts wider questions about a time when the words 'refugee' and 'asylum' prompted sympathy rather than fear.

Brazil 1964: Never again!

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March 31 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the military coup in Brazil, which ushered in the era of dictatorships in Latin America.

Chilean Play: Mad Man, Sad Woman

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‘Mad Man Sad Woman’, by Juan Radigan, is on at The Place, 269 Westferry Road, London E14 3RS, until 8 July. Tickets from www.space.org.uk Translated...

Argentina: don’t shoot the messenger

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Film Review: El Mensajero. Jayson McNamara (2016) English title: “Messenger on a White Horse’ During the murderous years 1976-83, from the Argentine coup to the Falklands...

Chile: Cabros de Mierda

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Film Review: Cabros de Mierda English title: “The Young Shepherd’ (Gonzalo Justiniano, Chile, 2017) with Nathalie Aragonese, Daniel Contessa Aguirre and Elias Collado Moya. ‘Cabros de Mierda’...

Brazil: Lula imprisoned

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The imprisonment of former president Lula takes place against a background which is complicated at best and murky at worst. The case against him is...

Brazil: Geisel authorized targeted killings

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In the last two weeks the Brazilian scholar Matias Spektor of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas has brought to light documents which take us back...

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