ARGENTINA: THE FUTURE OF MEMORY
Andrés Jaroslavsky is the author of LAB book The Future of Memory: Children of the dictatorship in Argentina Speak*.
“En este juicio quedó totalmente evidenciado el horror”
Interview with a judge who has made history in the case againts former dictators in Argentina. Article in Spanish.
Los registros de un secuestro familiar
Documents have emerged on the disappearance of political activists during the dark years of the military dictatorship in Argentina. Article in Spanish.
Argentina tries to combat a drier future
Argentina is suffering a terrible drought. Is climate change to blame?
Argentina: death of a petty tyrant
Antonio Domingo Bussi, a former general who is held responsible for the disappearance and death of more than a thousand people in the northern province of Tucumán died recently in Argentina at the age of 85.
Argentina: death in soya war
A peasant leader has been killed in Santiago del Estero, apparently by gunmen sent in by a local landowner.
Ecuador shuts down foreign NGO operations
President Rafael Correa has started a campaign against Non-governmental Organisations.
Colombia: Las Pavas: Farmers demand right of return to lands
On 4 April 2011, more than 70 adults returned to the Las Pavas ranch (Department of Bolívar), from which they were displaced in July 2009, following various returns and subsequent forced displacements.
Latin America Embraces Palestine
Since December, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay and Peru have all recognised Palestine as an independent state. This is another indication of the growing independence from the USA of much of Latin America.
Argentina: further fall in beef exports
Argentina, once renowned throughout the world for the large herds of cattle roaming its pampas, has fallen behind Brazil, Uruguay and now even Paraguay in its beef exports.