CAMeNA: an orchestra of truth-telling
An extraordinary museum and achive BASED at the UACM, Mexico, contains invaluable records of human rights violations, resistance and the dogged determination to tell and preserve the truth
El Salvador’s double bind: toxic masculinity in ‘Imperdonable’
Imperdonable is a compelling short film that condemns the hegemonic model of masculinity in El Salvador.
El Salvador elections
With El Salvador's election results still being counted, a look at the spectacular rise of populist party Nuevas Ideas, and its leader Nayib Bukele, as authoritarian populism threatens to sweep to victory.
Ex-minister Montano sentenced for UCA murders
The verdict of the Spanish case in the trial of the former Salvadorean minister and army colonel, Inocente Orlando Montano.
El Salvador: Madrid trial for the UCA murders
A former Salvadorean army colonel has been on trial in Madrid, accused of playing a direct role in the murder of 6 Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her 15-year-old daughter, in their house next to the Catholic university campus, on 16 November 1989.
El Salvador – a violent democracy
Book review
The Violence of Democracy - Political Life in Postwar El Salvador
By: Ainhoa Montoya
Published: 2018, Palgrave Macmillan, 303 pp, £17.99 paperback, £13.99 e-book....
El Salvador: Demons in black, demons in white
This article was originally published on the the author's own website. You can see the original here.
El Salvador ranked 142nd out of 163...
El Salvador’s Bukele – populist and authoritarian?
Between the 24 and 27 April 2020, 76 gang-related murders were reported in El Salvador - a significant hike from the 65 murders which...
Joe Biden: not enough for Latin America?
By John Washington. Originally published on April 18, 2020 under the title 'We Need to Reverse the Damage Trump Has Done in Latin America....
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...