Voices against the new populism – LAB Newsletter, March 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
27
March 2019
Voices versus the new
populism
Voices of Latin
America: LAB’s newest book
was launched on 18 January in a packed-out event at RichMix...
Brazil to build power line across indigenous land
The Brazilian state of Roraima is currently dependent for 70 percent of its power on Venezuela’s Guri hydroelectric dam. But socioeconomic chaos...
Venezuela: charade and reality on the border
Charles Beach, in Cúcuta, witnessed Branson’s concert and the halting of the aid convoy
On 22 January Richard Branson came
to the Colombian border city of...
Venezuela: food as bullets
This post by Lisa Sullivan is from her own blog, Lisa's Venezuela.
February 27, Palo Verde. As the Humanitarian Aid Battle revved its engines on...
Venezuela: the alternative of a coalition government
This article is based on a letter submitted in February 2019 to the European Commission and to the International Committee of the Red...
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.
Brazil post-elections: the quid pro quo
Only four days after Jair Bolsonaro's election, federal judge Sergio Moro, Lula’s nemesis, hurried to Rio to accept the president elect’s invitation to become...
Brazil on the edge: LAB Newsletter 24 October 2018
24 October 2018
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
Brazil on the edge
With all eyes on Sunday (28 October)’s second round of Brazil’s presidential elections, LAB...
The Ghosts of Elections-LAB Newsletter 21 December 2017
20 December 2017
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
The ghosts of elections past, present and future
Across the world, polls this year have been confounded as...
On the Venezuelan border: all the arms of the press
This article was first published in Revista Opera. You can read the original, in Portuguese, here.
October 23, 2017: The day begins at 8...