BRAZIL: CULTURAL HERITAGE UNDER THREAT
Brazil's rush to build roads and hydroelectric power stations is wiping out archaeological sites, many of them of great cultural importance to communities today. In a special article for LAB, Bruna Rocha, reports.
HONDURAS: RESISTANCE LIVES ON
A powerful video documents the continued resitance to the government brought to power by the 2009 coup.
Ernesto Cardenal: poet and mystic
The Nicaraguan poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal wins the Reina Sofia prize
Colour on the streets
Graffiti art in Latin America is bringing splashes of colour to city streets.
Chile: restoring art damaged in the earthquake
Mexican artists restore Siqueiros mural in Chile.
EVITA ON BROADWAY
A new production of the musical Evita in New York raises hackles in Argentina. In Spanish.
The Dream of the Celt
LAB's Javier Farje assesses Vargas Llosa's portrait of the controversial Irish campaigner Roger Casement.
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
El Salvador: music for hope
Young musicians and bands in rural El Salvador are supported by UK-based Music for Hope
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.