A Chronicle of Hell, Women and Hope
The author describes the pain of the women whose relatives, from husbands to brothers, died in the prison fire of Comayagua, in Honduras.
Comayagua: A Chronicle of Hell, Women and Hope
A Honduran journalist, Jessica Isla, tells her personal story of the prison fire.
The Prison Crisis in Latin America: Comayagua and elsewhere
Following the disastrous fire in Comayagua Prison, Honduras, Sonja Wolf analyses the disgraceful state of the continent's penitentiaries.
Women’s Lives and Women’s Struggles
Women's lives and women's struggles. While the daily lives of millions of women in Mexico and Central American continue to be marked by poverty and exploitation.
Guatemala Heeds the Cries of Femicide Victims
Women are the main victims of domestic and criminal violence in Guatemala.
Murió La Chapis, mujer comprometida siempre con las comunidades indígenas
Mexico mourns the death of a veteran indigenous activist. In Spanish.
La Chapis dies
Maria David Espejo, a Mexican Catholic activist who supported the Lacandon indigenous groups and the Zapatistas in Chiapas, has died in Mexico City at the age of 81.
Brazil: Campaign of terror against Amazon community
Loggers, keen to expel rubber-tappers from timber-rich land in the state of Amazonas in the Brazilian Amazon, are terrorising families, with the cumplicity of the local police force. A report from Pública, one of LAB's partners in Brazil.
Josefina Vázquez Mota: canto de sirenas por el voto femenino
Mexico: Female Presidential Candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota won the primary of the conservative National Action Party (PAN). Gladis Torres gives an overview of her ultra conservative politics, her lack of interest in human rights and in women's issues.
Ex presos políticos dieron testimonio de la existencia del “sótano oculto”
A tiny underground prison cell has been discovered under the Paraguayan Consulate in Posadas in Argentina