Belize: Conservation in the forest
In a third and final blog post from Punta Gorda, Belize, Rachel joins an indigenous community led forest patrol and witnesses the damaging impacts...
Canada’s toxic policies in Mexico and Latin America
Pretty Faces, Grisly Interests
This article was published on the website of Canadian progressive magazine Briarpatch. LAB has added titles and images.
Main image: Banner...
Central America: a new alliance against mining
This article was first published by NACLA on 24 May 2017
Miguel López took cover in the shade at the entrance to the hilltop cemetery....
Guatemala: a rotten state
On 27 August, Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales made a special TV broadcast to the nation, declaring the head of the CICIG 'persona non grata' in Guatemala.
Guatemalan Feminist Hip Hop Artist Raises Voice Against State Femicide
Rebeca Lane is a self-described “artivist” who uses music and poetry to expose and condemn state violence in Guatemala from the genocidal internal armed conflict in the 1980s to today.
Guatemala: A War by Other Means?
This article was first published by UpsideDownWorld. You can see the original here.
Header image: Families in Chab’il Ch’och’ look out over their burning homes...
Guatemala: indigenous women take on Canada’s mining industry
This article was re-published from Ricochet by UpsideDownWorld. You can see the original here.
Header image:(L-R): Amalia Cac Tiul, Elena Choc Quib, Carmelina Caal Ical,...
To end Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
In November-December 2018 Christian Aid promoted a Month of Awareness of Gender Based Violence, working with its partners in the region, around the International...
Voices of Latin America – social movements and the new activism
This is a book of many voices (more than 70 of them, from 14 different countries) which testify to an extremely sensitive and uncertain moment in the history of Latin America.
Las otras voces – la caravana de madres de migrantes desaparecidos
The program 'Las Otras Voces' presents the Caravan of Mothers of Disappeared Migrants, those who come from Central and South America and pass through...