CHAVEZ: A DEATH FORETOLD?
In 2001, exhausted after interviewing Chavez in Caracas, LAB editor Sue Branford commented half in jest to a fellow journalist that El Comandante was not long for this world.
Brazil’s Social Movements and the Olympics
LAB has been listening to leaders of Brazil's social movements to hear the messages they want to get across to the 10,000 journalists in Rio for the Olympics.
Venezuela — a view from the grassroots part 2
Police and military violence during the protests.
Meet our Salvadorean friends
A new blog describing Nueva Esperanza, a rural community in Bajo Lempa, Usulután, El Salvador
Dominican high court threat to Dominicans of Haitian descent
A troubling court ruling threatens to deprive of their citizenship Dominican nationals who are the offspring of Haitian migrants.
CHILE: JUSTICE STALKS THOSE WHO MURDERED VICTOR JARA
In late December 2012, Judge Vazquez of the Santiago Appeals Court initiated a discovery process for the murder of the famous Chilean singer Victor Jara.
Venezuela – a view from the grassroots part 1
The economic crisis that foreshadowed the protests.
Brazil — growing concern over Tapajós river dams
While the press is talking about the impact of the dams on the indigenous communities downstream whose land will be flooded, little is being said about the upstream communities who also have a lot to lose.
Cafe Cachorro gets under the skin of Samuel Beckett
A Rio-based theatre company brings to London a brave and unique play.