Friday, March 29, 2024

Crime & Violence

The Putumayo Atrocities

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The story of the near-extermination of indigenous communities in the early 1900s at the hands of the Peruvian Amazon Company.

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Part 4: The Sister Dorothy Sustainable Development Project

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In the fourth episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford visits the Sister Dorothy Sustainable Development Project (PDS), named after the American religious sister murdered in 2005 for her opposition to abuses by landowners and loggers.

Honduras: ‘Charter cities’ Plans in chaos

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Plans to build three quasi-autonomous new cities in Honduras are facing challenges on many fronts, despite President Porfirio Lobo's determination to push them through.

El Salvador: Agreement with the gangs is vital

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The principal mediator between the 'maras' armed gangs and the Salvadorean government is interviewed

San Salvador mayors unite to fight crime

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Mayors from 11 municipalities in the capital of El Salvador are focussing on improving public spaces within their districts in an effort to lower the crime rate.

Brazil: The cost to Rio of hosting the Rio Games and...

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Evictions, speculative building, state coercion: the harsh realities of Rio de Janeiro's preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games documented in this new film

Part 3: Uruará

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In the third episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford reaches Uruará, a town of some 50,000 inhabitants on the Transamazônica highway.

Part 2: Santarém

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In the second episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford reaches Santarém, a sleepy river-port located precisely where the green water of the Tapajós river flows in to the red, muddier water of the Amazon.

Part 1: São Paulo

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In the first episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford visits São Paulo where she lived in the 1970s under the military dictatorship.

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