Nicaragua: Lifting women out of poverty
An Earth Education Project in Managua helps women who lived on the municipal rubbish tip make and sell jewelry.
Chile: Patchworks of resistance
An exhibition of patchworks produced by craftswomen from Chile and other countries around the world shows the power of these works of silent protest
Chile in Wales: El sueño existe
In Machynlleth, mid Wales, the El Sueño Existe festival will be held in July-August, highlighting Colombia and eco-socialism.
Argentina: ‘ni una menos’
A movement and vast demonstration against femicide and violence against women has drawn support from every quarter.
Mexico’s ecovillage
Half an hour's drive south of Mexico City, the ecovillage of Huehuecoyotl has become a seedbed for visionary and transformative projects.
Land in Brazil 4
Rio de Janeiro has long been celebrated for the way in which the rich in their luxury apartments live cheek by jowl with the poor, crowded into favelas perched on the hillside, but this is all changing.
Argentina: these trees are made of blood
Set in a Buenos Aires cabaret club before, during and after Argentina’s brutal “Dirty War”, These Trees Are Made of Blood tells the story of a mother’s search for her missing daughter, one of thousands of people “disappeared” by the military junta.
Bolivia: ‘Spaceships’ invade El Alto
A new middle class is flaunting its wealth, in original ways: startling new palaces are being created in the El Alto district of La Paz.
Spain: why Venezuela is toxic for Podemos
How the media use Venezuela links to attack the left, in Spain, Peru and Mexico
Rio: Beauty and the beach
Images of the female body illustrate Brazil's divisions of race and class, of liberation and repression -- nowhere more so than on the beach.