COLOMBIAN PEACE PROCESS – HAITI IN LIMBO – BRAZIL: CORRUPTION AT...
Gwen Burnyeat on Colombian peace process / Russell White on Haitian elections / Sue Branford on the BNDES / Ali Rocha and Nayana Fernandez on the MPL / Interview with Ernesto Benítez
MACRI’S ELECTION SIGNALS END OF AN ERA IN ARGENTINA; PEACE PROSPECTS...
Marcela López Levy's on Macri's election / OpenDemocracy article / Gwen Burnyeat on Colombian peace process and her own students / Nick Caistor on Mexican democracy and Carlos Slim / Catherine Morgans on environmental devastation in Brazil
Two New Blogs from Brazil and Colombia; Upcoming Elections in Venezuela
This newsletter presents Jan Rocha's coverage of the ongoing political crisis in Brazil, two blog posts from Gwen Burnyeat from Colombia and an analysis of the situation in Venezuela ahead of the December parliamentary elections by Coromoto Power Febres.
New LAB book: Brazil Under the Workers’ Party
The first of a new LAB series of Special Reports, this title, by Sue Branford and Jan Rocha, charts the decline of the PT --from euphoria to despair.
“K” shortlisted for prestigious Irish literary award
A searing work that hovers between memoir and novel, ‘K’ describes the ordeal endured by the author’s father as he sought clues to the disappearance of his daughter in the 1970s at the hands of the country’s dictatorship.
The Crisis in Brazil
This newsletter focuses on Brazil, with articles from two leading analysts, from very different sectors of the Brazilian left, both of whom believe that the right has mounted an overwhelming counter-attack, which has devastated the left.
Until the Rulers Obey
A free public meeting in London to hear Clif Ross, editor of this new collection of interviews and testimonies, discuss with Marcela López Levy and Grace Livingstone.
Land in Brazil: PT abandoning land reform?
Indigenous groups and organisations of the landless in Brazil are becoming increasingly worried by the pro-agribusiness stance of the PT government and its minister of agriculture Kátia Abreu.
Climate Change, Brazil and Central America
The end of the COP-20 climate change conference in Lima, the Brazil truth commission, the disappearances at Ayotzinapa in Mexico... and more
Brazil: a film about Munduruku Indian resistance to dams
July 8 2014
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
Brazil: a film about Munduruku Indian resistance to dams
A new short documentary film about Munduruku Indian resistance to...