Ecuador: the Napo goldrush and the rise of the narco-garimpeiros
When large mining companies such as TerraEarth withdrew from gold mining in Ecuador's Napo province, they paved the way for smaller scale illegal miners to move in in force, financed by cocaine money, with terrible consequences
Buenos Aires – a riverside for the rich?
Buenos Aires' right-wing dominated city council has endorsed two major riverside developments which would reserve huge tracts of land for private luxury apartments and offices. Opposition is mounting.
The homeless street: São Paulo during Covid-19
Homelessness has increased dramatically during the Covid pandemic in São Paulo. A film and exhibition explore the way homeless people convert the street into a place of semi-permanent dwelling.
Voz I | Hunger for Justice
This is the first issue of Voz, LAB’s new series of guest-written quarterly dispatches, available exclusively to patrons (paid subscribers). Natalia addresses poverty and inequality under Pinochet’s lasting neoliberal economic model, the student uprisings that led to the estallido social, her traumatic eye injury and her political beginnings.
Chile: long path towards a democratic constitution
Chile's constituent process, which, led by the consistent work of social movements, seeks to dismantle the first laboratory of neoliberal capitalism, offers lessons to the left in the UK and worldwide.
Lupita: justice for Acteal
Scarred by a brutal massacre which took place in December of 1997 and left 45 dead, the residents of Acteal, in the highlands of Chiapas, continue to remind the world never to forget. One woman is at the forefront.
Brazil: local activists fill the information vacuum on Covid-19
We talked to five communications activists on the frontline of the fight against the pandemic in periphery neighbourhoods and favelas in five of Brazil’s...
Militias advance on Rio environmental reserve
By Mariana Simões, Agência Pública
Agência Pública is a LAB partner, and provided this article for publication in English by LAB. Translated by Julia...
The life of Brazil’s Marielle Franco
Marielle Franco was a rising political star in Brazil: she was an activist, the only Black woman to serve on Rio de Janeiro’s...
Rio de Janeiro: This land is our land
What do you do if you’re living on public land, in a house that your great-grandparents built in an era before strict housing regulations,...