The Colombia Connection
'The Colombia Connection', explores Colombia's armed and social conflict and the historic role played by the US government in the conflict.
The documentary will be...
Voices in New York – LAB Newsletter April 2019
26 April 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
The shocking suicide of former President Alan García, as police arrived to arrest, may have been planned in...
Migration & displacement – LAB Newsletter July 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
31 July 2019
Migration
and Displacement at crisis point
In addition to our website, LAB’s Facebook page provides a daily stream of summaries...
Colombia: does peace have a chance?
Long-term Colombia watcher Professor Jenny Pearce gives her personal reflections on the fraught peace process
Colombia: Can peace negotiators address root causes?
To understand negotiations you have to ask ‘Who are the negotiators?’
BULLETIN 23 December 2009
Mexico: Drug cartels on revenge attack for killing of leader ♦ Colombia: Guerrillas murder kidnapped governor ♦ Mexico: first gay wedding will not be annulled ♦ Peruvian President changes Economy Minister ♦ The British
Colombia: Santos and the quest for peace
At the end of 2016, Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the conflict with the...
El Salvador: you couldn’t just sit there and watch
Cornelia Gräbner describes an extraordinary set of documents which capture the most intense and dangerous phase of repression in El Salvador, leading up to the 1992 Peace Accords.
El Salvador: reconciliation or impunity?
El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly is expected to vote soon on a controversial new 'Special Law of Transitional and Restorative Justice for National Reconciliation'. Despite...
POPE FRANCIS: VERBITSKY REPEATS HIS ACCUSATIONS
The Argentine journalist, Horacio Verbitsky, has long accused the Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio(now Pope Francis)for handing over to the dictatorship left-wing Jesuits during the 'dirty war. In a recent article, translated by LAB, he explains why.