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A lot has happened in the region – and the world – since we last wrote to you.A week ago, we woke to the...

Dear MikeIn place of our regular newsletter, we’re coming to you with something a bit different this month – a request for help.Mike, we...

Dear LAB subscribers, This is the final newsletter you’ll receive this year. Thanks to all of you who've kept up with our newsletters and our reporting...

This month, we focused on Bukele's contraversial footage and gang violence vs. civil rights; Water Defenders and Guapinol activists; attacks on Afro-Colombian memory; Ashaniká women's filmmaking and Chico Mendes' influence in India.

LAB 's new book 'Women Resisting Violence' publshed, with one chapter available to Patrons to read. News from Brazil as an uneasy transition proceeds with Bolsonaro supporters still active, angry and dangerous.

LAB's environmental defenders series is expanded with new articles on Guatemala and Mexico. Worrying news about oppression in Nicaragua. Sobering lessons for the left from the first round of Brazil's elections.

Chilean voters decisively rejected the new draft constitution, throwing into doubt the whole progress towards reform and advance that emerged from the decision to draw up the draft, and the election of Gabriel Boric. Meanwhile in Brazil, Lula leads the polls.

We're proud to release today an in-depth new digital chapter of LAB's book Voices of Latin America – 'The Covid 19 Pandemic: Survival', by Emily Gregg. LAB Newsletter 26 August, 2022

Concessions brought an end to protests in Ecuador, environmental defenders face increasing threats in Peru and democracy threatened in Brazil – LAB Newsletter, 27 July 2022

Colombia has just elected left-winger Gustavo Petro; Bolsonaro's toxic policies claim two more high profile victims. LAB Newsletter 22 June 2022