El Salvador: Unhappy Anniversary?
In 1992 the United Nations-backed Chapultepec peace accords brought decades of civil war in El Salvador to an end.
Now, 25 years after the peace...
Temer takes Brazil back to the past
Taking the 'country of the future' back to the past
Sao Paulo, 20th October. It seems that Michel Temer will stop at nothing to buy...
Bolsonaro the grave-digger
April 23 2020. I'm not a gravedigger’ said President Jair Bolsonaro scornfully, when a reporter tried to question him about the number of coronavirus...
Inspired by Jara – a three-part podcast
This three-part podcast by the Manics' James Dean Bradfield looks at the lasting influence which Chilean musician and revolutionary singer, Victor Jara, has had on modern music.
What the Empire Didn’t Hear: US Spying and Resistance in Latin...
Ben Dangl, editor of UpsideDownWorld.org, explores why today Latin America is no longer scared of U.S. imperialism.
Colombia: historic agreement reached for victims
Peace negotiators in Havana have at last signed off the Agreement on Victims, a key part of the peace process and a great advance.
Colombia: famous peace community attacked by paramilitaries
San José de Apartado is a Comunidad de Paz in the Department of Antioquía, Colombia, created in 1997 by some 500 people displaced from...
Colombia: Petrol fuels instability on the border
Brigadier General Gustavo Moreno is sitting behind a wide desk in his air-conditioned office. It overlooks the parade ground of the police compound which...
Chile: Memoria, 40 years on
LAB Council member David Lehmann, after a visit to Santiago's Museo de La Memoria, is perplexed to find that support for the violence perpetrated by the Pinochet dictatorship is still acceptable and tolerated.
The Mad Hatter’s tea-party: Bolsonaro chooses his cabinet
São Paulo, 3 December: During the election campaign, president-elect Jair Bolsonaro boasted he would pare the number of cabinet ministers down from its present...