VENEZUELA: ACTIVISTS SPEAK
Five grassroots activists speak about life without Chavez, highlighting the need to reorganise the movement for a possible life after Chavez. "With Chavez everything, without Chavez nothing" is no longer a valid slogan, they say.
Guatemala’s War on Women
In 2012 alone, around 560 women were murdered in Guatemala, many after being sexually assaulted. Amnesty International reports.
Researchingsecurity
We are a group of PhD students from different universities and nationalities across the globe conducting research related to organised crime, security and policing with a focus on Latin America.
Andean glaciers show record melting
Tropical glaciers in the Andes are melting faster than at any time in the last three centuries, scientists say -- and the cause must be the warming of the atmosphere.
COLOMBIA: COMBATTING ANGLOGOLD
Environmental activists and local people are protesting about the damage that a large gold mine, called La Colosa, and an associated processing plant, will do to people and biodiversity in the department of Tolima.
Faces of Latin America, 4th edition
A new edition of Faces of Latin America, a vital source of information on Latin America, has been published.
BRAZIL: IS CLIMATE CHANGE FINALLY BEING TAKEN MORE SERIOUSLY?
While inexplicably climate change has been falling off the agenda in the UK, despite the indications that the world is heading towards catastrophe even more quickly than we feared, there are signs that finally Brazil is waking up to the crisis.
Reconnecting with Recife
LAB's Francis McDonagh renews his links with Recife, and observes Brazil at a slant, outside the São Paulo-Brasília beltway.
CHILE: JUSTICE STALKS THOSE WHO MURDERED VICTOR JARA
In late December 2012, Judge Vazquez of the Santiago Appeals Court initiated a discovery process for the murder of the famous Chilean singer Victor Jara.