Painful truths from Rio de Janeiro and London
The content of the book is painful but also full of hope. It aims to better understand the ‘painful truths’ of gendered violence in cities, bringing to light the stories of many women on the receiving end as victims and survivors and the ways in which women challenge violence through resistance and creative practices as agents.
The Amazon: journey to the centre of the fire
Photojournalist Edmar Barros travelled through one of the regions hardest hit by the fires in the Amazon, Amacro, on the border with Acre and Rondônia, to show the havoc wreaked by flames and drought.
The oligarchy in mining is bad for all of us –...
In the second of two articles, mining engineer Laurence Morris describes how the oligarchy of the 'Big Five' mining companies operates and the negative consequences of their monopoly of power, influence and resources.
El Salvador: the Song of the Poor
Review of exceptional collection of diary pieces and writing by catholic priest and missionary Tommy Greenan, who lived and worked in Chalatenango, El Salvador, following the teachings of Oscar Romero
Argentina: Indigenous media threatened by Milei’s policies
Some have interrupted operations because of reasons predating the new president, but Milei's measures have exacerbated their situation
La Voz Indígena (The Indigenous Voice), a...
When São Paulo became a battlefield
The now-forgotten Tenentes rebellion in São Paulo in 1924 caused widespread destruction, killed many people, and paved the way for Getulio Vargas' reforms in the 1930s and, later, for the dictatorship.
Digital writing in the time of Corona
A new project, ‘Archiving Real-Time Literary Responses to the Covid-19 in Latin America’, is housed at the University of Birmingham. aims to document some of this literary production in this exceptional period of global history. It will make a body of viral literature in Latin America available through open access for future researchers and the wider public before it is lost.
Indigenous community sues Colombian government
Twuliá Wayuu community sues Colombian government for climate change-induced coastal erosion causing devastating effects on their livelihood and culture in the northern La Guajira peninsula.
KANUA: the first floating film festival to navigate the Ecuadorian Amazon
Kanua, the Amazonian Floating Film Festival, brought cinema to remote communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon on a solar-powered canoe.
What the FARC?
'Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood' is not a simple story of bad left-wing guerrillas, good right-wing army—it is one in which the dehumanisation of women forms a prevailing undercurrent of the pursuit or exercise of power by men of all stripes in even the most quotidian circumstances.
