Memoria y color en la creación latinoamericana
Chilean artist Valuspa Parra’s installation ‘Minimal Secret’ reproduces texts from declassified CIA documents about the 1973 military coup in Chile.
Honduras Resistencia Trailer
Official trailer for the upcoming documentary on the ongoing plantation occupations in Honduras' Aguan Valley.
Venezuela: Hip-hop revolutionaries
First Venezuela's Youth Orchestra, now it is Hip-Hop Revolución, which is attracting hundreds of teenagers across the country. Not officially part of the Bolivarian Revolution, it nevertheless sees itself as part of the same movement for change.
Brazilian rapper Mano Brown speaks out
The Brazilian hip-hop singer visits building occupied by sem-teto in the centre of São Paulo. Listen to him talking and rapping.
Carlos Fuentes obituary
Nick Caistor, from LAB, writes about one of the most influential Latin American writers.
Brazil: “Cultural hotspots are as important as bossa nova”
Talking from Rio de Janeiro, the cultural activist, Paul Heritage, exudes enthusiasm about Brazil's innovative cultural programmes. Special interview for LAB by Nayana Fernandez.
El Salvador: music for hope
Young musicians and bands in rural El Salvador are supported by UK-based Music for Hope
Chile: who killed Victor Jara?
Three TV documentaries show new evidence about the assassination in September 1973 of Chilean folk-singer Victor Jara by General Pinochet's soldiers
The Dream of the Celt
LAB's Javier Farje assesses Vargas Llosa's portrait of the controversial Irish campaigner Roger Casement.