The world below grows in silence
This important article was originally published in Spanish in August 2019 (read the original here). Cristina Flores has translated it for LAB as...
My Beloved Barrios Altos
LAB's film curator Karoline Pelikan is joined by Peruvian director Jimmy Valdivieso to discuss his latest film My Beloved Barrios Altos.
Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme (LAMMP)
Support for rural and indigenous women in Latin America affected by mining
Peru’s grim Covid record
Why did Peru suffer 200,000 deaths in a population of less than 33 million?
Canada’s toxic policies in Mexico and Latin America
Pretty Faces, Grisly Interests
This article was published on the website of Canadian progressive magazine Briarpatch. LAB has added titles and images.
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Bananas boom while workers pay the price
Despite Latin America having some of the highest COVID-19 death rates in the world, the ‘essential’ banana export industry has thrived, while workers have...
Peru: Giant phosphate mine threatens fisheries
Opencast mining at Bayovar, owned by a subsidiary of Brazilian giant Vale, is polluting the bay and the local environment.
Peru: protecting culture and biodiversity
A beautifully filmed celebration of traditional ways of knowing, this documentary offers an alternative vision of what true wealth is and what is at stake in the struggle to protect biodiversity.
The Achuar indigenous people wins against oil company
The Achuar peoples of Peru’s Amazon region have forced the withdrawal of a Canadian oil-mining company from their traditional territory after an eight-year battle