Peru: a 10-year ban on GMOs
In December 2011 Peru became the latest country in Latin America to ban genetically modified organisms. But can it be sustained?
Voices of Latin America – social movements and the new activism
This is a book of many voices (more than 70 of them, from 14 different countries) which testify to an extremely sensitive and uncertain moment in the history of Latin America.
Cholet – the Work of Freddy Mamani, who built Salas de...
Documentary film, one hour long, showing the Salas de Eventos - over 60 in number - that have been designed and built by Freddy...
Sex Tourism Threatens Central America’s Youth
Whilst South East Asia remains the hub of sex tourism, Central America is growing in popularity due to poverty and diminishing opportunities.
1: Altamira, vítima de Belo Monte
Publicado originalmente em 07 de março de 2016.
Na primeira de seis postagens, Sue Branford descreve uma cidade onde as promessas de um pródigo desenvolvimento...
Latin America — Trafficking in Women and Girls
It is estimated that half a million young women in Latin America and the Caribbean are lured into sexual abuse, with social media playing a key role.
El Salvador: expelled by the FMLN, San Salvador’s mayor will run...
This article was prepared for LAB by Anne Liedloff from several posts in Tim Muth’s excellent El Salvador Perspectives blog. You can read the...
Ayahuasca, colonialist mysticism and the exploitation of indigenous people
A year ago, a video spread online where the Canadian Sebastian Woodroffe was lynched and killed by indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon. He...
Killing machismo the Colombian way
A new initiative is being made in Bogota to help women stand up to machismo and to get men to change their behaviour
Colombia: What happens when Auntie AngloGold comes to stay?
AngloGold Ashanti is busily buying land and influence in Cajamarca province, future site of its vast La Colosa mine. Behind the PR, what's really going on?