Another look at Pope Francis
Was LAB unfair to Pope Francis in our 4 April Newsletter? An analysis by the provincial of the Colombian Jesuits provides a more hopeful view.
Brazil: landless people achieve advances in the face of government indifference
A documentary film describing an MST settlement in Rio Grande do Sul
El Salvador: Images of the Elections
A striking gallery of photographs taken during the recent presidential election campaign.
Brazil: football, the opium do povo
Like a religious faith, the Brazilian obsession with football is beyond rational explanation.
‘K’ shortlisted for literary award
Bernardo Kucinski's beautiful novel/memoir 'K', published by LAB in 2013, is up for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
A repudiation of all who preach human rights violations
Bernardo Kucinski is a highly respected Brazilian journalist and writer. After decades in journalism, he recently turned to literature, writing, among other works, a...
Brazil: Details of dictatorship killings emerge
How the Brazilian military eliminated all traces of the disappeared by burning their bodies.
An American Spymaster’s story
A book by the former CIA bureau chief for Latin America head tells us more about his mind-set than the details of his activities.
Theatre: CASA 2015 Festival London
CASA's eighth Latin American Theatre Festival gets under way with Mexican plays from the Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol theatre group and the Colectivo Alebrije.
Mining: The Rivers are Bleeding
The
vast expansion of British mega-mining in Latin America is displacing
communities, destroying ecosystems, costing lives and polluting our
planet. The Rivers are Bleeding:...