Ecuador: Covid stalks the highlands
This article was prepared by the author on April 22 2020. While the counts of cases and deaths from Covid-19 have changed (see Postscript...
Bolivia facing up to Covid-19: some achievements, some failures
Main image: La Paz, with the Illimani mountain in the background. Source: EEJCC / CC 4.0, Wikimedia.
N.B. Statistics for infection and death-rates shown in...
El Salvador’s Bukele – populist and authoritarian?
Between the 24 and 27 April 2020, 76 gang-related murders were reported in El Salvador - a significant hike from the 65 murders which...
Brazil’s Yanomami people: silence, devastation and fear
This article was first published in Portuguese by Público. It has been translated for LAB by Theo Bradford and edited by Mike Gatehouse
There was...
Nicaragua: Coffee and Covid-19
‘The pandemic will bring tremendous personal health risk to smallholder coffee farmers around the globe, but also a series of financial risks, including market...
An open and shut case – schools and Covid-19
‘What’s that huge queue for?’ I asked my friend. He simply shrugged his shoulders as we stared at the seemingly endless line of people,...
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...
El Salvador: Demons in black, demons in white
This article was originally published on the the author's own website. You can see the original here.
El Salvador ranked 142nd out of 163...
Bolsonaro: quack doctor
15 May 2020. As Brazil lurches from one political crisis to another, the death toll rises steadily, making it the new epicentre of the...
Chile’s protesters: no impunity for oppression
This is the second of two articles with testimony from Chile’s protest movements. The first can be read here.
See also our January article 'Chile's...