Brazil — from euphoria to despair
LAB launches the first of its new series of Special Reports -- a critical look at the the decade of rule by the Workers' Party (PT) in Brazil. Reviewers seem to like it. Look at what they have to say.
Bulletin 23 February 2010
Argentina: President criticises the UK and expects regional support ♦ Latin America Summit: Colombia and Venezuela clash, again ♦ Latin America: An OAS without the Americans? ♦ Colombia: local currency in good health ♦ Brazil:
Brazil: rural maracatu photo gallery
Dancing through the night. Sambadas and ensaios photgraphed by Chris Estrada in Pernambuco
Brazil: 2015 a bad year for rural communities
The Pastoral Land Commission's 2015 report paints a grim picture of the challenges facing peasants and indigenous people.
Bulletin 22 February 2010
Argentina: Government “close” to getting continental support in Falklands dispute ♦ Haiti: final toll could reach the 300,000 ♦ Brazil: former guerrilla becomes presidential candidate ♦ Peru’s exports still dominated
PARAGUAY: BRAZILIAN EXPANSIONISM
The rapid growth of large soya monocultures, mainly in Brazilian hands, is leading to 9,000 peasant families being forced off their land each year. This is fuelling land conflict, says Perla Álvarez, from the rural women's organisation, Conamuri.
Brazil: No need to despair, a new historic struggle is under...
Leaders of Brazil's powerful social movements call for mobilization 'against the coup'.
The Mandate of Manaus: Indigenous Action for Life
Marianne Arake, from LAB, has translated into English the important 'call for action' produced jointly by indigenous groups from the nine countries of the Amazon Basin after their meeting in Manaus.
LATIN AMERICA: WHOSE FREE PRESS?
At last the question all too rarely asked about 'free' press: who owns it?