Amazon fires — LAB Newsletter September 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
11 September 2019
Amazon fires caused by land-grabbing on an industrial scale
In addition to our website, LAB’s Facebook page provides a...
Chile: La caravana de las Danzas
The 2018 Caravana de las Danzas 2018, dancing in La Plaza de Talca and taking a walk around the Barrio en Colores, an open...
Voices at El Sueño Existe, 2019
LAB was present at Wales’ own Latin America Festival, called El Sueño Existe, held in Machynlleth every other year since 2001. We had...
Chileans demand the right to live in dignity
'No son $30'
On Friday 18 October, Chilean president
Sebastian Piñera announced a state of emergency in the country’s capital
Santiago. As protests spread throughout the country...
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...
The Chilean Spring
It is spring in the Southern hemisphere. But in Chile, this spring is different - Santiago, 29 October
‘Chile has woken up’ is one of...
Chile: why didn’t this happen before?
LAB received this report from a long-term friend and supporter in Chile.
Santiago, 1 November
Dear friends at LAB, our country received so much help from...
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...
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...
A rapist in your path
On 20 November, a
group of four women known as Las Tesis from Valparaíso, Chile, unknowingly
started what would become an international phenomenon in the global...