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Mafalda was a revolutionary

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Feminism, the media, communism and consumerism, Vietnam –  Quino’s strip-cartoon Mafalda managed to address all these issues from the innocent, but incisive, perspective of...

FEMICIDE IN MEXICO: THE COTTON FIELD CASE AND ITS SEQUELS

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Government action is failing lamentably to protect Mexican women from a wave of violence and femicide.

Chile’s water crisis

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Chilean politics are marked by several long-running and highly divisive controversies, many deriving from the most consistently neoliberal economic policies and property arrangements  in the world. One of...

BRAZIL’S BLIND SPOT: RACISM AND RACIAL INEQUALITY

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Despite its multicultural image, Brazil fails to address racial inequality. Today, racial democracy is a dangerous illusion.

El Sueño existe 2017: focus on Ecuador

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Bienvenido! Festival 2017 Bienvenido!  El Sueño Existe Festival of Latin American music and politics will take place in Machynlleth, 28, 29 and 30 July 2017....

Brazilian shaman warns of the “falling sky”

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Davi Kopenawa, a Yanomami Indian shaman, talks about “paper skins”, “xirina" ants and “Teosi" in a fascinating new book.

Latin America’s migration problems

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The Americas were shaped by migration, mostly from Europe. Now Asians and Africans are arriving, and there is desperate intra-continental movement in...

Ellen Page confronts Jair Bolsonaro about homophobia, in Rio de Janeiro

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In 2016, when he was still just a Congressman, Jair Bolsonaro was interviewed by US actor Ellen Page (star of Juno). Bolsonaro says he...

EL SALVADOR: TRUCE FOR THE GANGS, NO TRUCE FOR WOMEN

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A dramatic fall in gang-initiated killings masks ongoing violence against women.

Bolivia’s lithium coup

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Almost 85 per cent of the world’s lithium reserves are concentrated in the Lithium Triangle along the borderlands of Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. Bolivia’s resources remain largely unexploited. Will Bolivia be able to industrialise Lithium production on its own terms?

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