Elections in Nicaragua: Concerns about the electoral process and the state...
In an article published before last Sunday's elections, WOLA analysed concerns about President Daniel Ortega's behaviour.
A Chronicle of Hell, Women and Hope
The author describes the pain of the women whose relatives, from husbands to brothers, died in the prison fire of Comayagua, in Honduras.
Gabriel García Márquez
LAB editor Nick Caistor pays tribute to Gabriel García Márquez, Latin America's greatest novelist.
Guatemala: officers must face trial
Amnesty International has called for Guatemalan officers, accused of extrajudicial executions, to be brought to trial. This follows the arrest this week of a former official in Switzerland.
Houses, Used Cars and Markets: Change Cubans Can Believe In
Recent economic reforms in Cuba could have political repercussions.
JOAO ZINCLAR: KILLED IN AN ACCIDENT
With great sadness we report the premature death of Brazilian photographer João Zinclar, who took many of the photographs which illustrate the LAB book "Cutting The Wire - The Story of the Landless Movement in Brazil", published in 2002.
Mexican workers fight for rights
Violence is not the only curse of Ciudad Juarez. Exploitation of workers is another one, argues Kent Paterson
Mexico: The Cost of U.S. Dumping
Timothy Wise examines the impact of NAFTA on Mexican agriculture.
COLOMBIA: 38 indians demobilised through work of local NGO
At least 38 Indians, 20 of them minors and the rest no older than 25, have turned in their weapons and left behind the Colombian armed conflict thanks to a program sponsored by the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, or ACIN.
GUATEMALA: INDIGENOUS CHALLENGE
An indigenous group has gone to court to challenge the government's legal right to change the mining law without consulting the indigenous population.The Center for International Environmental Law and MiningWatchCanada report.