Chile: student uprising against market forces which marked a generation
A British documentary film about the student demonstrations in Chile in 2011.
La Población: an album for a shanty town
Victor Jara's 1982 album told the story of the población Herminda de la Victoria. It will be celebrated at this year's El Sueño Existe festival (on Zoom from Machynlleth, Wales). Malcolm Boorer tells the story behind the album.
London’s Latin Americans: Becoming Visible
Latin Americans in London are campaigning for official recognition as an ethnic minority
Lithium: white gold or curse?
A proposal to start large-scale mining for lithium in Cornwall, UK, raises all the same issues as seen in Chile, Bolivia and Argentina. It's a timely reminder that mining is not just a problem for poorer countries.
Bread & Circuses: order your new World Cup T-shirt
UK-based Philosophy Football has a new T-shirt for the World Cup, based on a Brazilian design with the motto:
The 2014 World Cup: Prosperity for FIFA Means Pain for Brazil
Next week the FIFA World Cup tournament starts in Brazil and many Brazilians don't seem to be very happy about the world biggest football carnival coming to town.
Beyond El Dorado
An exhibition at London's British Museum explores the early societies in Colombia and the place of gold in their beliefs.
El Salvador: accompanying Nueva Esperanza
Tim Hollins and Mogs Russell founded a group based in Birmingham, UK, which has accompanied Nueva Esperanza, a community of returned refugees in the Bajo Lempa area of Usulután, El Salvador. Here they describe how this collaboration began, and its successful focus on supporting the community's school and teachers
An Inextricable Link: Climate Change & Human Rights in Latin America
A London conference on climate change and human rights in Latin America organised by ILAS and LAB
An emergent Latin/x London
Latin Americans are one of the fastest growing migrant and ethnic groups in London and the wider United Kingdom, yet they remain one of the most invisible.