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LAB’s new home at ILAS

Mike Gatehouse - July 1, 2014

Thanks to the University of London's Institute of Latin American Studies, LAB now has a new base.

LAB helps English fans in Brazil

Mike Gatehouse - June 26, 2014

LAB has helped organize activities for English fans who followed their team to the World Cup in Brazil.

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ICYM: The case against Lula - how politics trumps justice #Brazil https://t.co/T6ogbUSWyv

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Filmmaker @OliviaCrellin talks about hew new documentary Transgender Parents with Nina Meghji #LatinAmerica #trans https://t.co/kkPIWRSMlE

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Why barbecues in Europe are driving deforestation in Paraguay https://t.co/NPpcANuSeZ

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The 14-year conflict between a mining Goliath and a small village in #Chile https://t.co/qzfwVZ8cMe

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LAB - Latin America Bureau

3 days ago

Not many Brazilians are yet saying it openly but the feeling is growing that the cost to Brazil of the Lava Jato (Car Wash) corruption investigation has been too high. Corruption is the way the Brazilian Congress works and all parties have been involved (though it seems that on the whole PT politicians took money from companies to buy votes to get their program approved in Congress, not for personal enrichment),And, with no sign yet of it ending, the battering the economy is suffering is getting greater and greater:
www.brasilwire.com/how-many-jobs-has-lava-jato-cost/ ...

How many jobs has Lava Jato cost?

brasilwire.com

Translated from Carta Capital. The Brazilian economy had a sharp rise in unemployment in 2015 and 2016. The main reasons were misguided economic policies and malign effects of the Lava Jato operation. Today, we have more than 12 million unemployed, according to IBGE. The abrupt drop in the...

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LAB - Latin America Bureau

3 days ago

A very readable analysis of the case against Lula. It's favourable to Lula but then there really is very little evidence that Lula accepted bribes or gained any other kind of personal financial benefit from his time in office:
www.brasilwire.com/judicial-farce-moro-freezes-lulas-assets-cant-find-triplex/ ...

Judicial Farce: Moro freezes Lula’s Assets, can’t find Triplex

brasilwire.com

After giving former Congressional President Eduardo Cunha months of advance warning which enabled him to hide millions of dollars of bribe money before his arrest in 2016, and repeatedly refusing to admit evidence that would enable him to arrest PSDB party leader Aécio Neves and illegitimate...

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LAB - Latin America Bureau

5 days ago

CASA Latin America Theatre Festival. London. 3 Sept - 29 Oct 2017.
For its tenth anniversary year, CASA Festival joins forces with two of London’s leading off-West End theatres, Southwark Playhouse and Arcola Theatreto offer London audiences eight weeks of brilliant Latin American theatre and culture.
The festival kicks off at Arcola with Sergio Blanco’s highly-acclaimed Thebes Land returning for a five-week run, ahead of a five-week season of four acclaimed international shows and three exciting new works by UK-based Latin American artists at Southwark Playhouse. Completing the programme are: a new verbatim piece about violence against Brazilian women and girls who live in the UK, a new theatre show about Peru and its food, and an eight-week festival of play readings of Latin America’s most exciting contemporary voices.
The full Festival programme is available at:
casafestival.org.uk/ ...

CASA Latin American Theatre Festival

casafestival.org.uk

Celebrating ten years of bringing Latin American theatre to the UK - discover great theatre shows from international companies and homegrown artists alike.

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