VENEZUELA: LUSBI PORTILLO, YUKPA PEOPLE, SIERRA DE PERIJA
Latin America is rightly famous for the vibrancy of its social movements. In a special series for LAB, Silvia Rothlisberger is profiling the leaders of some of these movements. Her first blog is on Lusbi Portillo, from the Yukpa people, in Venezuela.
Interviews with Social Movements
Leaders and members of some of the social movements of the Region speak out about their hopes and challenges.
El Salvador: urgent appeal
LAB partner CAWN (Central America Women's Network) is appealing for support in a petition to the government of El Salvador to allow doctors to save a women's life through permitting an abortion
Brazil: Indigenous struggle moves into a new gear
Indians have occupied the main construction sites for the huge Belo Monte dam and the government has responded by banning journalists.
Honduras: Terror in the Aguán
Honduran military claims that clandestine groups are carrying out military training are used to justify further repression.
Mexico: Airport Threatens Farmworkers Again
After halting the project a decade ago, the people of San Salvador Atenco are organising to combat new, and worse plans for an airport on their land.
Paraguay: the bañados go up town
Mothers from the bañados mudflats in Asunción, demonstrate against police ill-treatment of their children.
Central America: Feminism and revolution
Central American feminist María Suárez Toro explains how women have decided 'that they are not going to be represented by the boys'.
Argentina: Chagas – a Silent Killer
One doctor's struggle to halt a deadly disease which affects millions.
Javier Diez Canseco – the death of a leader
The loss one of the most important leaders of the Peruvian left.