Brazil on the edge: LAB Newsletter 24 October 2018
24 October 2018
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
Brazil on the edge
With all eyes on Sunday (28 October)’s second round of Brazil’s presidential elections, LAB...
Walk with us – the migrant crisis in Central America
Film by Judy Jackson, 2019
The migrant crisis through the eyes of Pastor Ignacio Martinez, the founder of ABBA safehouse in Celaya. It started when...
Central America awaits second hurricane
Nicaragua and Honduras brace themselves, as Christian Aid continues its response to the ongoing emergency
The category 5 Hurricane Iota is due to make landfall...
HONDURAS: A State of Siege in Northern Honduras: Land, Palm Oil...
HONDURAS: A State of Siege in Northern Honduras: Land, Palm Oil and Media. As the right wing de facto government continues to rule in Honduras, peasants are marginalised and the press is silenced. The violence continues.
Honduras: Femicide Part 1 – The most dangerous country to be...
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Juju Chang reports from Honduras, the most dangerous country on earth in which to be a woman. She documents...
Voices: a work in progress
Work on LAB's exciting new book Voices of Latin America is progressing rapidly
More than 45 of our interviews, from 11 countries, have...
International resistance to coup in Brazil
As the impeachment process comes to an end, a group of intellectuals, both Brazilian and foreign, publish a collection of essays, analysing President Dilma Rousseff's time in government and repudiating the veiled coup.
Save TPS for Central Americans and Haitians!
This article was first published by UpsideDownWorld. You can see the original here.
Header image: Over 400,000 people from 13 different countries including El Salvador,...
Honduras: between electoral fraud and popular uprising
A week on from the general elections held in Honduras, on 27 November, there is still no definitive result. The main candidates are presidential...
Central American political posters of the ‘80s and ‘90s
From 1975-1977 I was the volunteer co-ordinator for the Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) in Honduras and Nicaragua. This was a time when the Sandinistas were building their support in Nicaragua against the Somoza regime and Honduras had just been through the short-lived ‘football war’ with El Salvador.