Written by Nathalie Mercier, Christian Aid’s Programme Officer in Guatemala
Decision day is fast approaching
for Guatemalans awaiting the result of the country’s presidential elections.
Neither of the two front-running candidates
- Sandra Torres from the centre party National Union for Hope (UNE), and
Alejandro Giammattei from the far-right party Vamos - achieved the majority needed
for victory in the first round (in June)....
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 and links to articles published elsewhere. In this and future newsletters we will mention some of these, with the rubric ‘Read FB’ to distinguish them from posts on LAB’s website 'Read more'.
Migration
Costa Rica has...
This article was prepared for Christian Aid by Nathalie Mercier (Guatemala), Maria Useche (Colombia), Tania Grande (El Salvador) and Javier SanVicente (Honduras)
Main image: migrant child detained at the US border. Source: Guardian podcast: 'What is happening to migrant children at the US border'
The devastating image of Salvadoran immigrant,
Óscar Martínez, with his two-year-old daughter, Valeria, their lifeless bodies found
drowned in...
The Americas were shaped by migration, mostly from Europe. Now Asians and Africans are arriving, and there is desperate intra-continental movement in search of work. But the old welcomes are wearing out.
This article was written for the 'Outside In' blog of Le Monde Diplomatique by Gustavo Fuchs and is reproduced here by kind permission of the...
A moving short photo-video from Francisco Elías Prada and Ángela Rodríguez Torres of LAB partner Ojos Ilegales, Venezuela. The photos convey haunting images of migrants from Central America as they cross Mexico in a desperate attempt to reach the USA.
The translation of the text is:
“Go back to your countries. You’re rubbish! You’re shit!”
-That’s what they said to me.
Illegals
Travellers
No...
A podcast from The Guardian. Published in the 'Today In Focus' series, 11 July 2019. To download or listen, click here.
Elora Mukherjee is a prominent US immigration lawyer. Several weeks ago she visited the Clint border facility in Texas, which was holding hundreds of children who had tried to cross the border. What she saw was ...
Photographer Francisco Elias Prado, of Ojos Ilegales, in Caracas Venezuela, has sent LAB this video. He produced a photo-essay, Transmigración en Movimiento, from which LAB used the image (on p.187 of Voices of Latin America) of Ana Enamorado, a Honduran woman living in Mexico and working with the Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano (MMM). Her own son is one of the...
Photographer Francisco Elias Prado, of Ojos Ilegales, in Caracas Venezuela, has sent LAB this video. He produced a photo-essay, Transmigración en Movimiento, from which LAB used the image (on p.187 of Voices of Latin America) of Ana Enamorado, a Honduran woman living in Mexico and working with the Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano (MMM). Her own son is one of the...
The program 'Las Otras Voces' presents the Caravan of Mothers of Disappeared Migrants, those who come from Central and South America and pass through Mexico in the attempt to reach the US.
Video: TV UNAM 20 May 2014 (in Spanish)
This post was published by Haiti Support Group. You can read the original here
12th January 2018: Today marks eight years after the Léogâne Earthquake and Trump is, once again, spewing garbage about Haiti having yesterday called it a "shithole".
Firstly, it is no such place. Since its revolutionary birth, Haiti has given the world so much in art, science and...