Keeping up with Latin America’s most high-profile parents
Award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and producer Olivia Crellin has reported from Brazil, Ecuador and Chile, covering stories on social, environmental and human rights issues. Her...
Interview with leading Chilean documentary filmmaker Maite Alberdi
In our live talk and Q&A with Maite Alberdi, one of Chile's leading directors and producers, Maite discussed the ways in which documentaries help us construct the kind of society we want to live in, "by showing us what we don't want to face".
First Chile, then Bolivia and now Colombia… LAB Newsletter, November 2019
In addition to our website, LAB’s Facebook page
provides a daily stream of summaries and links to articles published elsewhere.
In this newsletter we have done...
Voices against the new populism – LAB Newsletter, March 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
27
March 2019
Voices versus the new
populism
Voices of Latin
America: LAB’s newest book
was launched on 18 January in a packed-out event at RichMix...
Cochabamba Declaration
The Cochabamba Declaration mobilises scientists and indigenous experts concerning the preservation of rock art and indigenous sacred places in South America
Nano Stern sings Víctor Jara at the Jazz Café
We are at the Jazz Café to celebrate Jara’s life and I can't think of anyone better to do this with than Nano Stern, Chilean singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist and the heir to the Nueva canción tradition.
Chile: ‘Three Grounds’ abortion law inadequate
Chile's current 'Three Grounds' abortion law is proving inadequate in practice. Lack of public information, the 14-week limit and medical staff 'conscientious objection' opt outs all lead to many unwanted pregnancies and dangerous illegal abortions. The incoming Boric government is being urged to reform the law.
Chile: students in Talca explain why they back the protests
On the 18th of October 2019, mass
fare dodging in Santiago de Chile expanded into city-wide protests and
violence. Initially in response to a transport price...
Bem viver, the good life, is possible — LAB Newsletter December...
Bem viver, the good life, is possible -- LAB Newsletter December 2019
This has been an extraordinary year, with many setbacks but some remarkable signs...
Toxic masculinity in Chilean schools
In 'Animales Extintos', Lucas Quintana takes a closer look at the cultures within which machismo exists, offering a sensitively rendered vision of the toxicity of certain male friendships, and their potentially noxious consequences.