Mexico: can the war on drugs be won?
Javier Farje from LAB analyses Mexico's failed war on the cartels
Latin America’s climate conundrum
The Americas now face the challenge of coping with the inevitable, potentially devastating,impacts of climate change.
Mexico: is this the ‘fourth transformation’?
Nick Caistor sets the context for his new LAB Book, Mexico Inside Out. Has AMLO fulfilled his promises?
Copper and conflict in Sonora, Mexico
Conversing with Goliath is a research project carried out by
FLACSO-Mexico and De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, sponsored by the
British Academy (2017-2020). The project aims...
Jeremy Corbyn’s views on Latin America
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn may be the first leading British politician since Judith Hart in the 1970s to have detailed knowledge of the...
Brazilian movement takes inspiration from Zapatistas
The autonomous movement that spearheaded the Brazilian protests took direct inspiration from the horizontal model of Mexico’s Zapatista communities.
Immigration: trials and tribulations
Immigration is contentious both in US internal politics and in its relations with Mexico. Soon, however, US demand for labour may outstrip the supply of immigrants.
The Rights of Nature Movement
A recent report, published by the Cyrus R. Vance Centre for International Justice, Earth Law Centre and International Rivers has found that the movement to grant legal rights to rivers and the natural environment is rapidly gaining momentum around the world.
Cardboard creativity: cartonera books
Cartonera books – cheap
books with cardboard covers and photocopied texts – were originally a
by-product of the Cartonero movement in Argentina, when people from the...
Mexico: A gated economy powered by NAFTA
The Mexican economy has been divided into gated enclaves where the rich conceal their assets and those on lower incomes become invisible.