Latin America: Researching crime, violence and security
Violence in Tegucigalpa and Rio de Janeiro, organised crime in El Salvador, the authoritarian legacy in Argentina ... some of the research topics for LAB partner Researching Security.
FIFA in CHILE: The Football of the Absurd
In 1973 the USSR's football team was ordered by FIFA to play a qualifying match in Santiago de Chile, in the same National Stadium which had been recently used as a concentration camp.
Faces of Latin America 4th Edition
The indispensable introduction to Latin America for all serious students, readers and travellers.
K — a chorus of voices worthy of a Greek tragedy
Published in English by LAB in March 2013, 'K' is attracting enthusiastic rewiews.
Brazil : protest works
In the second of her blogs from São Paulo, Jan Rocha says that "people power" is already bringing results
WHY PEOPLE ARE PROTESTING AGAINST THE WORLD CUP
Why would football-loving Brazilians protest at the World Cup? From the A Pública news agency in São Paulo, Marina Amaral describes the abuses - ranging from forced evictions to a fourfold increase in ticket prices - that have provoked such rage.
Brazil: Life in a world of protest
In the first of her blogs from Sao Paulo, veteran reporter Jan Rocha describes life in a world of protest
Uprising in Brazil: An Extraordinary Moment for Change
Will the protests be co-opted, or do they point the way to another, better society?
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.
Brazil: the protests that took the world by surprise
Nobody was expecting some of the largest protests in Brazilian history – not even the protestors themselves.