Brazil’s indigenous cultures: fragile or flexible?
Film: Ex-Pajé (Ex-shaman) (80 minutes)
Directed by Luiz Bolognesi, 2018
With Perpera Suruí, Kabena Cinta Larga, Ubiratan Suruí and Agamenon Suruí… as themselves.
Films about Indians deep...
Amazon frontier: The Third Bank of the River
BOOK REVIEW
Chris Feliciano Arnold, The Third Bank of the River. New York: Picador 2018
This book has been classified as ‘travel-writing’, but it is much...
Brazil: the impact of hydroelectric dams
LAB correspondent Marilene Cardoso Riveiro has made a beautiful short video, entitled 'Costs', about the impact of hydroelectric dams in Brazil on the communities...
Brazil: indigenous lands in São Paulo state under threat
About 600 indigenous people living in eight villages located in the city of Peruíbe, on the coast of São Paulo state, are at risk...
Phillip Wearne – a tribute
“The people have spoken – the bastards!”
This tribute was first published by Haiti Support Group.
These words were muttered by a US Embassy official at...
Brazil: mines mean murder (again)
Local leaders in Barcarena, Pará are in fear for their lives, following the murder on Monday 12 March of one of their leaders, 47...
Wixarika in Mexico Denounce Illegal Sale of Sacred Island
This article was first published by Telesur. You can see the original here.
Header image: Fragment of an art piece explaining Wixarika cosmology by Jose...
Guatemala: indigenous women take on Canada’s mining industry
This article was re-published from Ricochet by UpsideDownWorld. You can see the original here.
Header image:(L-R): Amalia Cac Tiul, Elena Choc Quib, Carmelina Caal Ical,...
Voices: a work in progress
Work on LAB's exciting new book Voices of Latin America is progressing rapidly
More than 45 of our interviews, from 11 countries, have...
Mexico: pretenders to the throne
Main Image: COHA
Mexico’s next presidential election is not due until July 2018, but by mid-December this year the contest has already come to life.
The...