Brazil: the parallel universe of Messias Bolsonaro
It was billed as an important presidential announcement, and his ministers stood behind him, dark suited, hands clasped in front of them like a...
Does Colombia’s migration policy work for Venezuelans?
Around 2,000 Venezuelans per day are now migrating to Colombia, mostly using 'informal' crossing points. Colombia's policy of economic integration has benefited some, but now faces growing hostility towards the newcomers
Novelist Luis Sepúlveda dies of Covid-19
At the
Frankfurt Book Fair early in the 1990s, Beatriz de Moura from Tusquets
publishers asked a Chilean journalist living in Germany if he had heard...
Brazil: the Yanomami abandoned
A new report highlights the escalating existential crisis among the 30,000 Indigenous people living in the Yanomami Territory, covering 9,664,975 hectares (37,317 square miles)...
Chile: the protest movements adapt to Covid-19
This is the first of two articles with testimony from Chile’s protest movements and the impact of Covid-19.
See also our January article 'Chile's long...
Covid 19 wreaks havoc among Brazil’s indigenous leaders
Covid 19 will affect Brazil’s indigenous groups for many years, not only because of the number of lives it has taken but also because among those dead are many important indigenous leaders. LAB briefly profiles one important leader who recently succumbed to the disease.
Brazil: teachers protest against drive to reopen schools
LAB received this open letter from the Teachers of the EEB (State Basic Education School) Padre Anchieta, Florianópolis, to School Community, March 2021.
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Bolsonaro won’t help us with coronavirus
Excellent video from The Guardian showing Brazil's favela-dwellers working hard to implement lock-downs and to supply food and essentials to their communities, while President...
Uruguay’s paradox: will the pandemic accelerate neo-liberal policies?
To many citizens' dismay, Uruguay's exemplary handling of the pandemic could help pave the way for the Lacalle Pou administration to pass new, seemingly neoliberal, legislation.
Domestic violence and the pandemic
Argentina-based security and defence think tank RESDAL looks at trends in Latin America, asking what the data can tell us about gender-based violence during the pandemic, and how this can inform public policy in the region.