Galeano’s Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
A new book by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano illustrates human potential through poems, tales, histories and observation.
Brazil: Indigenous struggle moves into a new gear
Indians have occupied the main construction sites for the huge Belo Monte dam and the government has responded by banning journalists.
Argentina: Chagas – a Silent Killer
One doctor's struggle to halt a deadly disease which affects millions.
Paraguay: journalists are still threatened and killed
Press photographer shot by motorcycle assassins: the second such killing this year.
Genesis by SebastiÃo Salgado
A new exhibition in London by Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado takes us to the last unspoilt regions of the planet.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY IN CENTRAL AMERICA
A photo essay: women denounce violence and demand a real commitment to women's rights.
Aldeia Maracanã marks 513 years of Indigenous Evictions in Brazil
A few minutes from Maracanã stadium, urban Indigenous village struggles to save an historical building in danger as Brazil's World Cup approaches
New form of activism in rural Brazil
Young people in the eastern Amazon are rediscovering their culture and identity through a programme initiated by Dan Baron Cohen, a UK activist.
CHAVEZ IS DEAD, THE MEDIA ARE ALIVE AND KICKING
Media reporting of the Venezuelan President was deeply biased while he lived, and remains so now.
BRAZIL: ARRIVAL OF CUBAN BLOGGER HITS A NERVE
Yoani Sánchez' tour of Brazil provokes a storm of Cold War polemic.