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La Mezcla blog series LAB Latin America Bureau
Here LAB collects snippets of news, reviews, comment… everything that doesn’t belong elsewhere. Dip into it, and enjoy!

The Chilean Spring

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It is spring in the Southern hemisphere. But in Chile, this spring is different - Santiago, 29 October ‘Chile has woken up’  is one of...

Cardboard creativity: cartonera books

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Cartonera books – cheap books with cardboard covers and photocopied texts – were originally a by-product of the Cartonero movement in Argentina, when people from the...

London’s First Cartonera Book Festival

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London’s First Cartonera Book Festival Celebrates Cultural Activists from Latin America who Turn Waste into Books The first-ever London Cartonera Book Festival will be held from 17-20...

Mining: The Rivers are Bleeding

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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:...

First Festival of Peruvian Cinema in Native Languages

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The festival took place in Trujillo and Cusco from 18-21 July 2019. It followed on from the success of ‘Winaypacha’ (Eternity), the first Peruvian...

Indigenous Brazilian electronic art comes to London’s British Academy

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by Shafik Meghji A fishing net that recreates the sound of the ocean. An earthenware pot that emits traditional stories and songs. A cocoon-like structure...

Voices launched in New York

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Hosted by Monthly Review Press, NACLA, Voices editor Tom Gatehouse, and the New York Latin America Bureau team, Voices of Latin America: Social Movements...

Ayahuasca, colonialist mysticism and the exploitation of indigenous people

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A year ago, a video spread online where the Canadian Sebastian Woodroffe was lynched and killed by indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon. He...

Mexico: more than 800 socio-environmental conflicts since 2006

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A project called 'Talking to Goliath' has mapped social and environmental conflicts across the length and breadth of Mexico, caused by the development, expansion...

Venezuela: the alternative of a coalition government

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This article is based on a letter submitted in February 2019 to the European Commission and to the International Committee of the Red...

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