A new book by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano illustrates human potential through poems, tales, histories and observation.
Central American feminist María Suárez Toro explains how women have decided 'that they are not going to be represented by the boys'.
A few minutes from Maracanã stadium, urban Indigenous village struggles to save an historical building in danger as Brazil's World Cup approaches
This is a government obsessed with Simón Bolivar, writes Javier, in his last post from the country.
Daughters of rural families find that work as maids in the city is no route to education and independence
To win their rights, Jamaicans have to shake off the burden of 200 years of colonial history.
Brazil’s Bolsa Família programme is widely held up as a model, but it hasn’t made Brazil more equal, says INESC.
President Lula lifted millions of Brazilians out of extreme poverty and at the heart of his social policies was Bolsa Familia, his family grant scheme that has been much praised abroad. But how key a role was actually played by Bolsa Familia?
LAB's Claudia Pompa reports on how the Centro Educativo Mbaracayu (CEM), located in the Mbaracayú Forest Biosphere Reserve in north-east Paraguay, educates and trains girls from rural communities to become 'rural and environmental entrepreneurs'.