Tango against elder abuse
Argentine tango teacher and LGBT activist Edgardo Fernández Sesma made this video for the (15 June) World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. LAB's Nina Meghji...
The world below grows in silence
This important article was originally published in Spanish in August 2019 (read the original here). Cristina Flores has translated it for LAB as...
Jujuy, Argentina: the whole country is watching us
As large parts of the country remain in lockdown, Argentina’s northernmost province, Jujuy, has all but ended its quarantine amid harsh restrictions on freedoms.
Main...
Buenos Aires under curfew
On 19 March towards 7.30 p.m., I receive a WhatsApp message from Pedro, one of my main contacts for my PhD research in Buenos...
Covid-19: the problem is the money
‘I’m not afraid of this virus’, said Idrissa. ‘For me, the problem is the money. There is no money coming in.’ He was sitting...
Covid-19: diary of a flight from Argentina to Brazil
Camila Pierobon is a Research Associate at CEBRAP (São Paulo). She wrote this piece in a text to a friend after arriving home in...
Tintin in the forests of Guatemala
The rainforests of Central America have come to north London.
One day Tintin decided he would like to sit on one of my freshly...
Peronism back in the Casa Rosada
On 10 December,
Alberto Fernández and his deputy Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (no relation)
assumed the Argentine presidency marking an end to the right wing administration
of...
Bolivia: will new elections heal the rift?
Two months have passed since Bolivia’s disastrous October 2019 presidential elections. During this time, Evo Morales resigned from the presidency, sought asylum in Mexico,...
Lithium: draining the desert
Peine, Chile and Susques, Argentina – Within minutes of driving out of
tourist hotspot San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile you are deep in...